RESEARCH INTERESTS
banking, household finance, corporate finance, asset pricing, options and derivatives
WORKING PAPERS / REPORTS
• “Early Roots of Inequality: Evidence of a Gender Income Gap Among Children”, with C. Engels, R. Howard and M. Lukas.
• “When Prejudice Hits Home: Hate Crime and the Market for Mortgage Credit”, with C. Engels, I. Hasan and S. Hong; Best Paper Award in Memory of Phil Molyneux, FINEST Autumn Workshop 2023.
• “The Cost of Privacy Failures: Evidence from Bank Depositors’ Reactions to Breaches”, with C. Engels and B. Francis.
• “The Power of a Financially Literate Woman in Intra-Household Decision-Making”, with A. Banerjee, I. Hasan and K. Kumar. NSE-NYU Stern Initiative on the Study of Indian Capital Markets Working Paper; Financial Literacy Research Award, Asia Pacific Financial Education Institute, 2019.
• Natural Language Processing (NLP) Project: The OCAI Textual Measure of Organizational Culture, with P. Andreou, T. Harris and W. Zhang. [Construct Validation Documentation] [DATA, coming soon]
• “The EPIC framework for financial literacy teaching” (2025) [This research is funded by the ‘Smart and Smale’ grant programme]
RESEARCH ARTICLES
• “Shared occupancy and property tax arrears”, with W. Anim-Odame, P. A. Brenni and D. Damianov (2025) Real Estate Economics 53(2), 352-390 [SSRN]
• “Technology rhetoric and institutional ownership”, with P. Andreou, K. Drivas and G. Wood (2025) Cambridge Journal of Economics 49(1), 67–93 [SSRN]
• “When it rains it drains: Psychological distress and household net worth”, with A. Balloch and C. Engels (2022) Journal of Banking and Finance 143, 106620 [SSRN]
• “Forward guidance and corporate lending”, with M. Delis, S. Hong and N. Paltalidis (2022) Review of Finance 26, 899–935. [SSRN]
• “Institutional ownership and firms’ thrust to compete”, with P. Andreou, F. Fiordelisi and T. Harris (2022) British Journal of Management 33, 1346-1370. [SSRN]
• “Multifactor models and their consistency with the APT”, with I. Cooper, L. Ma and P. Maio (2021) The Review of Asset Pricing Studies 11, 402-444. [SSRN]
• “Dispersion in options investors’ versus analysts’ expectations: predictive inference for stock returns” with P. Andreou, A. Kagkadis and P. Maio (2021) Critical Finance Review 10, 65-81. [SSRN] [Online Appendix] [Data] [Codes]
• “Measuring firms’ market orientation using textual analysis of 10-K filings”, with P. Andreou, and T. Harris (2020) British Journal of Management 31, 872-895. [SSRN]
• “Financial literacy and fraud detection” with C. Engels and K. Kumar (2020) The European Journal of Finance 26, 420-442. [SSRN]
• “The information content of forward moments” with P. Andreou, A. Kagkadis and A. Taamouti (2019) Journal of Banking and Finance 106, 527-541. [SSRN] [Online Appendix] [Data]
• “CEO duality, agency costs and internal capital allocations” with N. Aktas, P. Andreou and I. Karasamani (2019) British Journal of Management 30, 473-493. [SSRN] [Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance]
• “Differences in option investors’ expectations and the cross-section of stock returns” with P. Andreou, A. Kagkadis and R. Tuneshev (2018) Journal of Banking and Finance 94, 315-336. [SSRN] [Online Appendix] [Data]
• “Economic activity and momentum profits: further evidence” with P. Maio (2018) Journal of Banking and Finance 88, 466-482. [SSRN] [Online Appendix]
• “Financial knowledge among university students and implications for personal debt and fraudulent investments” with P. Andreou (2018) Cyprus Economic Policy Review 12, 3-23. (Policy journal) [SSRN]
• “Bank loan loss accounting treatments, credit cycles and crash risk” with P. Andreou, I. Cooper and C. Louca (2017) British Accounting Review 49, 474-492. [SSRN]
• “Optimal hedging in carbon emission markets using Markov regime switching models” with Y. Shi (2016) Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money 43, 1-15. [SSRN]
• “Bank liquidity creation and risk-taking: Does managerial ability matter?” with P. Andreou and P. Robejsek (2016) Journal of Business Finance and Accounting 43, 226-259. [SSRN]
• “Stock market literacy, trust and participation” with A. Balloch and A. Nicolae (2015) Review of Finance 19, 1925-1963. [SSRN] [RoF Virtual Issue] [RoF Digest]
• “Macro variables and the components of stock returns” with P. Maio (2015) Journal of Empirical Finance 33, 287-308. [SSRN]
• “Impact of allowance submissions in European carbon emission markets” with Y. Shi (2015) International Review of Financial Analysis 40, 27-37. [SSRN]
• “Media content and stock returns: The predictive power of press” with N. Ferguson, M. Guo and H. Lam (2015) Multinational Finance Journal 19, 1-31. [SSRN]
• “What drives the disappearing dividends phenomenon?” with J. Kuo and Q. Zhang (2013) Journal of Banking and Finance 37, 3499-3514. [SSRN]
• “Short-sale constraints and efficiency of the spot-futures dynamics”, with D. G. McMillan (2012) International Review of Financial Analysis 24, 129-136. [SSRN]
• “Modelling volatility and correlations in financial time series” (2011) in Introductory Econometrics, 2nd edition, ed. Seddighi, H. R.; London: Routledge, pp. 347-369.