Kent Business School are delighted to announce that five of our academics have received promotions over the summer period this year. Every year the University … Read more
Category: Research impact
Energy Management Specialist ZTP wins Innovate UK Funding
Strategic energy management consultancy ZTP is pleased to announce that in collaboration with Kent Business School (KBS) and School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science … Read more
Unethical Counterfeit Consumption: Top Rated Paper for KBS Academic
Senior KBS Lecturer in Marketing Dr Xuemei Bian’s study on the consumption of counterfeit goods The study was included in the publisher Elsevier’s Newsletter to … Read more
KBS Research Newsletter Autumn 2016 – Round-up
What do we really know about outstanding research impact? With increasing funder emphasis on impact, wouldn’t it be useful to understand what “outstanding” impact looks … Read more
Credit default swaps
A meteoric rise A credit default swap (CDS) is a bilateral contract between a buyer and seller of compensation for a fixed maturity, usually five … Read more
Beware of falling COCOs
A tough nut to crack Ideally the regulations in financial markets will emerge from the market participants themselves. Indeed, while a structured investment vehicle … Read more
To make sense of dividends we should look into their futures
A financial enigma The investment and academic worlds are united, generally speaking, on what dividends are, where they come from, and even how large they … Read more
A research dividend
For investors in equity markets, dividends matter. Take the S&P 500 index of large US companies – dividends have historically represented as much as ⅓ … Read more