Finance & Financial Management (FFM)

Senior Lecturer in Finance

He studied accounting and finance at undergraduate and postgraduate level at the University of Strathclyde between 1996 and 2003 and was employed as a Lecturer in Finance at the University of Aberdeen between 2003 and 2007.
His teaching interests include corporate finance, corporate governance, and personal finance and investment management. His research is focused in the general area of corporate finance, and specifically corporate governance, corporate restructuring and security issuance.

Publications

• Firm performance and managerial succession in family managed companies, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Volume 36, Issues 3 & 4, April/May 2009, Pages 461-484, (with D. Hillier)
• Asset Sales and firm strategy: an analysis of divetitures by UK companies, European Jounal of Finance, Volume 15, Issues 1 & 2, January/February 2009, Pages 71-88, (with D. Hillier and S. Werema)
• An analysis of majority owner-managed companies in the UK, Accounting & Finance, Volume 48, Issue 4, December 2008, Pages 603-623, (with D. Hillier)
• Employee Layoffs, Shareholder Wealth and Firm Performance: Evidence from the UK, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Volume 34, Issues 3 & 4, April/May 2007, Pages 467-494 (with D. Hillier, A. Marshall and S. Werema)
• An Analysis of Changes in Board Structure during Corporate Governance Reforms , European Financial Management, Volume 12, Issue 4, September 2006, Pages 575-607 (with D. Hillier)
• Ownership structure, managerial behavior and corporate value, Journal of Corporate Finance, Volume 11, Issue 4, September 2005, Pages 645-660 (with J.R. Davies and D.Hillier)
• Equity Issuance, CEO Turnover and Corporate Governance, European Financial Management, Volume 11, Issue 4, September 2005, Pages 515-538 (with D. Hillier and S.C. Linn)