Researchers to investigate footballers’ heights in debate over goal sizes
Blocking those high potential goals isn’t easy during the best of times! But does being shorter make it even harder and create an unfair disadvantage? Well, University researchers are taking a look into it and the results could change football forever.
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Dr Anna Molnár Wins Prize at Inaugural Central European History Congress
We are delighted to announce that Dr Anna Molnár has been selected as one of the winners of a new award presented at the inaugural Central European History Congress. This is the first time the congress has been held, making the distinction especially noteworthy
Academics Win Best Corporate Finance Paper Award 2016
"Institutional Cross-ownership and Corporate Strategy: The Case of Mergers and Acquisitions" by Professor Chris Brooks, Dr Yeqin Zeng, and PhD Zhong Chen has been awarded Best Corporate Finance Paper at the 2016 Southern Finance Association annual conference. About the paper: The paper provides new evidence on the important role of institutional investors in affecting corporate strategy. We study institutional investors who hold stocks of both acquirers and targets before the announcements of mergers and acquisitions (M&As). The existence of these institutional cross-owners not only increases the probability of two firms merging, but also affects the outcomes of M&As. Institutional cross-ownership reduces target firm prices, lowers completion probabilities of deals with negative acquirer announcement returns, and increases the use of stock payment in M&A transactions. Furthermore, deals with high institutional cross-ownership have lower transaction costs and disclose more transparent financial statement information.
ICMA Centre academics collaborate with Climate Bonds Initiative on first Green Bond Investor Survey
Dr Ivan Sangiori and Dr Lisa Schopohl supported the Climate Bond Initiative (CBI) with its Green Bond European Investor Survey, looking at how climate change could be addressed through investment decisions.