Strathclyde Business SchoolDepartment of Accounting & Finance

Seminar Series 

The departments research seminar series invites prominent scholars from leading universities and research institutions to present their recent work in Accounting and Finance. 

Spring Semester 
Date Speaker Title
09/04/25 Keith Skowronski, Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina Value Capture in Drug Development Alliances: The Role of Complementary Resources and other R&D Partnerships
12/05/25 Zhi Da, Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame You can only lend what you own: Inferring daily institutional trading from security lending supply
11/06/25  Michelle Lowry, LeBow School of Business, Drexel University Corporate Lobbying of Bureaucrats
 

Semester 1
Date Speaker Title
09/10/24 Prof Cal Muckley, UCD Money management difficulty, customer protection and the detection of early-stage dementia.
23/10/24 Prof Fabio Braggion, Tilburg University The Long-term Effects of Inflation on Inflation Expectations 
06/11/24  Dr Marco Grotteria, LBS Environmental Health Risks, Property Values, and Neighborhood Composition
20/11/24  Prof John Cotter, UCD Asset Allocation with Factor-Based Covariance Matrices 
27/11/24  Dr Chi-Yang Tsou, University of Manchester Financial Frictions and Pollution Abatement Over the Life Cycle of Firms 
Semester 2 
Date Speaker Title
22/01/25 Prof Sabri Boubaker, EM Normandie Business School

How Do Adaptation Initiatives Affect Corporate Debt Choice?
12/02/25 Dr Ruby Brownen-Trinh, University of Bristol Flying semi-blind: an empirical study on auditors’ effort in auditing climate risks
19/02/25 Prof Ralph De Haas, EBRD, KU Leuven and CEPR Blended Finance and Female Entrepreneurship
05/03/25

Prof Lee Parker, University of Glasgow. Joint founding editor of AAAJ

Connecting the Accounting and Management Past and Present: Scientific Management and Office Management Control
12/03/25 Prof Olga Kolokolova, University of Lancaster Save the Date: Analyst / Investor Days as a Trading Signal
19/03/25 Dr Silvina Rubio, University of Bristol Voting Rationales

 

Economic and Business History at SBS
Date Speaker Presentation
27/02/25

Prof Graeme Acheson, Accounting & Finance 

 The Consuming City: Female Entrepreneurship in Late Victorian Glasgow
23/04/25 Dr Muhan Hu, Accounting & Finance The Original Gangsters: Big 4 Auditors Before They Were Big
14/05/25

Dr Niall MacKenzie, Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Innovation

 Communing with Angels: The Development of the Early-Stage Risk Capital Market in Scotland, 1990-Present