Kent Business School’s Dr Michele Bigoni, Senior Lecturer in Accounting has spoken on Accounting and Irrational Decision Making in a new Think Kent video. Dr … Read more
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Dr Ngo and Dr Le as Visiting Fellows
Kent Business School is pleased to welcome Dr Trong V. Ngo and Dr H.A. Chau Le as a visiting Fellows. Dr Ngo and Dr Le … Read more
KBS Professor Roman Matousek Awarded British Academy Research Grant
Awarded jointly to Banking and Finance Professor Roman Matousek and Monetary Economics Professor Chau Le at the Banking University of Ho Chi Minh City (BUH), … Read more
Opinion: Is President Trump good for the Economy?
As part of this quarter’s theme of Financial Markets and Risk we asked our portfolio of Kent Business School Academics to share their views on … Read more
Dr Michele Bigoni Awarded Accounting Scholarship
Dr Michele Bigoni, Senior Lecturer in Accounting at Kent Business School has been awarded the Margit F. and Hanns Martin Schoenfeld Scholarship by The Academy … Read more
KBS Accounting Professor to Launch Book in the Palace of Westminster
Warwick Funnell, Professor of Accounting and Public Sector Accountability at Kent Business School is to have his book A History of British National Audit: The … Read more
What is an MSc in Finance?
As part of our brand new quarterly theme of Financial Markets and Risk we’re looking at current financial trends, hearing from accounting academics and giving … Read more
Bank CEO pay – Be Careful What you Wish For
The relationship between CEO pay and company success continues to exercise politicians and shareholders alike. In finance, we know something about how bank performance influences … Read more
ACCA Accreditation for KBS MSc International Accounting and Finance Programme
Kent Business School are pleased to announce that the MSc International Accounting and Finance programme has been given exemption accreditation by ACCA – the Association … 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
Professor Warwick Funnell’s paper wins Enrique Fernandez Pena Prize
Professor Warwick Funnell, Professor of Accounting and Finance at KBS, has won the highly regarded Enrique Fernandez Pena Prize for his paper titled “War or … Read more
Professor Warwick Funnell’s book launch & public lecture
Professor Warwick Funnell delivered a public lecture on 27 May on themes from his recently published book, Accounting at War: The Politics of Military Finance.” … Read more
KBS student Francisco Estrada awarded GARP Research Fellowship
Kent Business School is proud to announce that our MSc Finance Markets student, Francisco Estrada, has been awarded the Spring 2015 GARP (Global Association of … Read more
KBS Professor Warwick Funnell Publishes New Book on the Politics of Military Finance
Professor Warwick Funnell, Professor of Accounting and Public Sector Accountability and Head of Accounting at Kent Business School recently published a new book, “Accounting at … Read more
New ESRC Finance Project
A team of KBS finance researchers, led by Dr Ekaterini Panopoulou, has won seminar funding from the ESRC, together with a group of international collaborators … Read more
Forward futures price differences in the UK commercial property market: Arbitrage and marking-to-model explanations
In this paper by a research team including Dr Silvia Stanescu and Professor Radu Tunaru of Kent Business School and collaborators, the differences between forward … Read more
Regime-switching models for exchange rates
This study by a team including Dr Ekaterini Panopoulou of Kent Business School provides evidence of periodically collapsing bubbles in the British pound to US … Read more