Professor Evangelos Vagenas-Nanos
- Professor of Finance (Accounting & Finance)
email:
Evangelos.Vagenas-Nanos@glasgow.ac.uk
Adam Smith Building, 2 Discovery Place, Glasgow, G11 6EY
Biography
Evangelos joined the Adam Smith Business School in 2010 as a lecturer in Finance. Previously, he was a teaching assistant in Finance at Durham Business School. Evangelos gained a BA in Economics from Aristotle University (Greece) while at Durham University he obtained an MSc in Finance and Investment as well as a PhD in Finance (2011). He also holds the Postgraduate Certificate (PGCert) in Teaching and Learning in higher Education qualification. His main research areas of interest lie in Corporate Finance, especially within the sub-field of Mergers and Acquisitions and Capital Structure as well as Behavioural Finance. Investigating these fields, Evangelos’ PhD thesis focuses on the impact of managerial and investor sentiment on bidders’ abnormal returns. Evangelos is also involved in the supervision of undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD students.
Research interests
Evangelos is a member of the Finance research cluster.
Areas of expertise:
- Corporate Finance
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Behavioural Finance
- Capital Markets
Grants
Carnegie Trust Research Grant (2013) – Small Research Grant (£810) for research collaboration Award £810K.
Supervision
Current PhD students
- Li, Yifan
Three essays on corporate finance - Panburana, Nawawan
The Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) - Yang, An
The Impact of Social Media on Initial Coin Offering Based on
Teaching
Courses taught
Postgraduate:
- Mergers and Acquisitions (MSc)
- Behavioural Finance (MSc)
- Corporate Finance (LLM)
Undergraduate:
- Research Thinking Thinking Research
Previously taught
Postgraduate:
- Finance and Accounting for Managers (MBA)
- Investment Strategies (MSc)
- Business Statistics (MSc)
Undergraduate:
- Quantitative Methods for Finance
Additional information
Conferences
Does Investor Sentiment Influence Bidder Announcement Abnormal Returns?
1. European Financial Management Association (EFMA), Rome, Italy, 2014
2. World Finance Conference (WFC), Venice, Italy, 2014
3. Financial Management Association (FMA), Nashville, Tennessee, USA, 2014
‘Do Stock Acquirers Benefit by Exploiting Their Overvalued Equity?’
4. Midwest Finance Association (MFA), Orlando, Florida, USA, 2014
5. European Financial Management Association (EFMA), Barcelona, Spain, 2012
6. World Finance Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2012
‘Divergence of Sentiment and the Impact on the Stock Markets: Worldwide Evidence’
7. International Symposium on Forecasting (ISF), Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2014
8. World Finance Conference (WFC), Limmasol, Cyprus, 2013
9. British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA), Glasgow, UK, 2013
‘The dragon vs. The eagle: A case of mergers’
10. European Financial Management Symposium, Asian Financial Management, Beijing, China, 2011
‘Uncertainty triggers sentiment: Evidence from corporate takeovers’
11. European Financial Management Association (EFMA), Braga, Portugal, 2011
12. World Finance Conference (WFC), Rhodes, Greece, 2011
‘Managerial Overconfidence in High and Low Valuation Markets and Gains to Acquisitions’
13. Financial Management Association (FMA) European Conference, Turin, Italy, 2009
14. European Financial Management Association (EFMA), Milan, Italy, 2009
Refereeing (academic journals)
- Journal of International Business Studies
- Journal of Islamic Accounting and Business Research
- European Journal of Finance
- Journal of Strategy and Management