Our vision is to become a recognised research centre of the Southampton Business School (SBS) in empirical finance and banking by promoting academic collaboration, producing excellent (cross-disciplinary) research outputs, striving for research impact and establishing links with the industry and policy bodies.
The Centre for Empirical Research in Finance and Banking (CERFIB) would aim to increase our understanding of the contemporary challenges that corporations, financial markets and banks are facing in the rapidly developing national and global landscape. It also aims to explore the links through which the financial and banking sectors are affecting real economic and social outcomes. The empirical nature of the research of CERFIB allows for an evidence-based approach in achieving these aims.
A central aim of this centre is to bridge theory and practice through cross-disciplinary research collaboration – one that fully aligns with the School’s as well as the University’s strategic objectives. The CERFIB recognizes that the diverse empirical results researchers often obtain using the same theory depends largely on ‘translating each element of the theory into a robust empirical framework’. The rest depends on the availability and/or development of state-of-the-art tools to approximate the predictive outcomes of the empirical work to that of the reality.
The CERFIB is committed to contribute extensively to the rigorous process of integration of theory into practice and at the same time to develop new research tools to advance our thinking on the empirical implications of banking and financial subjects. The CERFIB has a group of highly motivated academics along with practitioners in the area of banking and finance. The centre’s core research dynamics is also strengthened by an effective outdegree network with high-profile external members, who deeply engage with the centre’s academics in research activities. Together, the centre supports, enhances and facilitates a cohesive research environment.
The CERFIB has its aim on transforming the knowledge capital from the cohesive synergies of multidisciplinary work into the tangible benefits for the academic community, practitioners and students.
Core Research Themes:
Cross-Disciplinary Research Themes:
When an opportunity arises, members of the CERFIB also engage into research the following brad cross-disciplinary research themes.
For queries about the activities of the CERFIB, potential research collaborations and visits please send an e-mail in the following address: cerfib@soton.ac.uk
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The following people are involved in the running of the centre:
Internal Members | External Members |
Professor Taufiq Choudhry (Director of CERFIB) | Dr Hany Latif, Economist, IMF, Washington |
Professor Tapas Mishra (Director of CERFIB) | Dr Mamata Parhi, Reader and Head of Accounting, Finance, Economics and Governance, Faculty of Business and Law, Roehampton University, UK |
Dr Renatas Kizys | Dr Prasad Bhattacharya, Deakin University, Australia |
Dr Zenon Taoushianis | |
Dr Simon Troup | |
Dr Mohamed Bakoush | |
Dr Martin Enilov | |
Dr Yue Zhou | |
Dr Panayiotis Papakyriakou | |
Dr Panagiota Papadimitri | |
Dr Gabriele Lepori | |
Dr Shuonan Zhang | |
Dr Weiping Qin | |
Dr Manuel Nunes | |
Dr Christoforos Andreou | |
Dr Bo Wang | |
Dr Suhee Kim | |
Dr Yun Luo | |
Dr Arben Kita | |
Dr Di Luo | |
Dr Paulo Regis | |
Dr Zhuang (Jason) Zhang | |
Dr Laurie Carver | |
Dr Yi Ding | |
Dr Larisa Yarovaya | |
Dr Ahmad Maaitah | |
Professor Simon Wolfe | |
Dr Rakesh Jory | |
Dr Abhishek Kumar |
Date | Speaker | Presentation title | Room | Time | Website |
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14/10/202 | Dr Kornelia Fabisik (Frankfurt, Germany) | Why Do U.S. CEOs Pledge Their Own Company's Stock? | Online event | 13:00 - 15:00 | https://fabisik.com/ |
21/10/2020 | Dr Orkun Saka (U of Sussex) | TBA | Online event | 13:00 - 15:00 | https://sites.google.com/site/orkunsaka/research |
28/10/2020 | Prof Matti Kelloharju (U of Aalto, Finland) | TBA | Online event | 13:00 - 15:00 | https://www.aalto.fi/en/department-of-finance/matti-keloharju |
04/11/2020 | Dr Renatas Kizys (U of Soton) | TBA | Online event | 13:00 - 15:00 | https://www.southampton.ac.uk/business-school/about/staff/rk1y18.page |
11/11/2020 | Dr Ralph De Haas (EBRD) | TBA | Online event | 13:00 - 15:00 | https://www.ebrd.com/what-we-do/economic-research-and-data/researchers/ralph-de-haas.html |
25/11/2020 | Prof Anastasiya Shamshur (U of Kent) | TBA | Online event | 13:00 - 15:00 | https://www.kent.ac.uk/kent-business-school/people/2563/www.kent.ac.uk/kent-business-school/people/2563/shamshur-anastasiya |
02/12/2020 | Prof George Panos (U of Glasgow) | Financial literacy and attitudes to cryptocurrencies. | Online event | 13:00 - 15:00 | https://sites.google.com/site/georgiosapanos/publications |
09/12/2020 | De Emmanuil Platanakis (U of Bath) | TBA | Online event | 13:00 - 15:00 | https://sites.google.com/site/eplatanakis/home |
Staff name | Research grants | Research impact |
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Soumyatanu Mukherjee | 07th August 2019: International Economic Research Annual (IERA) Award 2018 by the Export-Import (EXIM) Bank of India; 09/2012 – 09/2015: Economic & Social Research Council (UK) Doctoral Scholarship (+3); 09/2012 – 05/2016: Vice-Chancellor’s Research Excellence Award (University of Nottingham). | Globalisation 4.0 & Proliferation of AI – Are We Ready for This? – Financial Express (All Editions) on 14th March 2019; "Trans Pacific Partnership Without The US: Populism Wins..." – BW BUSINESSWORLD e-paper on 31st March 2018; "Though monetisation serves as a good start to clean up the mess, it does not address the deeper issue of tax evasion" (co-authored with Dr Aravind Sampath) – Financial Express e-paper on 16th December 2016, Page 9.; "Turbulence in Hong Kong could open a window of opportunity for India" (https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/opinion/turbulence-in-hong-kong-could-open-a-window-of-opportunity-for-india-5521231.html) |
Paulo Regis | N/A | N/A |
Renatas Kizys | External grant, which is managed by Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. Our research project Circular economy modelling and empowerment perspective in a small open economy (CEMESOE) in collaboration from colleagues from Lithuania, Germany and Italy in 2019 was awarded funding for the value of EUR 145,487 by the Lithuanian Research Council. Details of the project are available here https://seb.ktu.edu/projects/circular-economy-modelling-and-empowerment-perspective-in-a-small-open-economy-cemesoe. | The News, https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/business/university-study-shows-government-bailouts-may-have-done-harm-1-7036871 (Local); Daily Mail, The Guardian, The Independent (National); Irish Independent, The Irish Journal, Irish Times, Netherlands National Radio Station, Wall Street Italia (international/European); Chinese and Hong Kong media companies (international) ; https://www.treasurers.org/ACTmedia/Dec15TTbankbailouts28-29_2.pdf; potential impact cases: Financial Immunity to the COVID19 Pandemic: Evidence from International Stock Markets; The Quadrilemma of a Small Open Circular Economy Through a Prism of the 9R Principles; Global Temperature, R&D Expenditure, and Growth |
Taufiq Choudhry | Externa funding: International Research Grant granted by the National Science Centre, Poland. Grant number 2014/13/B/HS4/01556. Amount £100,000. Duration time of the funding: 2015-2017; International Research Grant granted by the Federal Ministry of Finance, Nigeria. Grant number R&I/2116/1/74. Amount £12,000. Duration time of the funding: 2019-2021; | N/A |
Gabriele Lepori | N/A | NPR Morning Edition (U.S. radio news program), I was interviewed by Shankar Vedantam in the research news segment: “How TV Show Finales Affect the Stock Market”, May 18, 2015. This radio show attracts about 2 million people, on average; Pacific Standard (U.S. magazine), “Hit TV Show Ends; Stock Market Goes Down”, by Tom Jacobs, February 20, 2015. This article reported on one of my studies. |