Top grade for finance research
Published 19 April 2010
ESRC-funded research by Bart Lambrecht and Grzegorz Pawlina (both of Lancaster's Department of Accounting and Finance) has recently been awarded the highest grade – outstanding – by the Economic and Social Research Council’s review panel. The £302,835 grant funded research on the “Investment and Financing Policy of Corporations and Households” for a three-year period.
The research has resulted in eight papers, of which one is already published in the Journal of Financial Economics. The research has featured on the programme of conferences organised by the American Economic Association, European Finance Association, National Bureau for Economic Research and the Western Finance Association, among others. The research was presented in seminars or workshops at over 30 institutions across the world (including HKUST, MIT Sloan School, NUS, Washington University and the Universities of Edinburgh, Essex, Lausanne, Manchester, Mannheim, Maryland and Tilburg).
Lambrecht and Pawlina also organised a one-day ESRC-funded workshop around the theme of the grant at the London School of Economics. The programme included contributions from leading academics in the field (with Professor S. Myers from MIT as keynote speaker). The workshop was attended by over 60 participants.
