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Dear all,

Happy new year to you all and I hope you are doing well with your exams.

It is time to consider your dissertation topics and to allocate you a supervisor. Please see your
Dissertation Handbook for detailed information on the generic requirement of your dissertation.
Here I would like to address the following issues which are relevant to your MSc programme.

You probably have been or will be contacted by the school to submit a proposal or proposed topic
for your dissertation. Based on the information collected, I will then allocate you a supervisor. The
principle here is to match your proposed topic with our expertise as closely as I can. However, I will
not be able to guarantee a 100% customer satisfaction because of the fixed number of dissertation
each colleague has to supervise over the summer. To facilitate the match, I strongly advise you to
view our expertise and research areas from our websites and here attached is a list of topics we
would like to supervise. However, the ultimate decision is yours to select a topic for your
dissertation. In other words, we encourage you to select a topic from the attached list but not
limited to it.

Please contact your programme leader if you have any enquiries on dissertation. Thanks and look
forward to working with you.

Best wishes,

Menthos (MSc Banking and Finance), Dimitrios (MSc Accounting and finance) and Liang (MS IFM)

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Banking and financial markets

Entry of foreign banks and their effect on the financial development of the country
Syndicate loan market: before and after crisis
Role of financial conglomerates
Factors determining bank loans: any related topic
Bank risk taking
Bank liquidity
Bank corporate governance
Banking regulations
Bank efficiency or profitability

Merger and Acquisitions

Networks, institutional development and M&A
The Effect of Method of Payment in Mergers and Acquisitions
Investment Banking and Mergers and Acquisitions
What Factors Affect the Performance of Acquiring and Target Firms in Mergers and
Acquisitions?
Cross-Border Acquisitions and the Effect of Legal Systems
Valuation in Takeover Situation

Corporate Governance

Executive compensation and capital structure

Effect of firm and country governance in determining cash holding
Corporate Governance and Earnings Management
Corporate Governance and Firm Performance
Information Disclosure
Ownership Structure
Corporate governance reform and firm performance
Board composition and capital structure

Initial Public Offerings (IPOs)

Earnings Management and IPO

IPOs in crises: How does international financial environment affects listing.
CEO payments around an Initial Public Offering.
Executive remuneration in Maritime Industry.
Regulatory impact on IPO performance: A global case.
Founder CEO Management and the performance of IPO firms.
Earnings quality at initial public offerings: UK Evidence.
IPO through a Cross listing (in a foreign market).

Corporate Finance
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Capital Structure
The connection between Operating Leverage and Financial Leverage
Issues of capital structure in Small and Medium Size businesses
Financing issues
Dividend policy
2

Investment management

Efficient Market Hypothesis

Behavioural Finance
Benefits of Diversification and Correlation between Asset Classes
Tactical Asset Allocation
Liability Driven Investment
Styles of Active Equity and Bond Management
Active versus Passive Management, ETFs
Risk Management in Portfolios
Use of Derivatives
Trends in the Industry
Performance of different strategies
Regulatory issues
Role in Portfolios
Commercial Property
Private Equity
Commodities
Risk-Adjusted Performance
Performance Attribution

Style Analysis
Trends in industry
Intermediation
Ownership of participants
Industry analysis
Methods used to Analyse Companies
Company Valuation - methods and correlation with outcomes
Do managers learn from the private information in stock price when they make corporate
investment decisions?
Equity investment Styles, Fama French 3 factor & 4 factor models, Investment Performance,
Taxtual sentiment in financial accouncements

Accounting

Accounting Disclosure
Corruption and accounting
Bribery Act
Forensic Accounting
Forensic Auditing
Board of Directors and accounting issues.
IFRS and Accounting Manipulation
management accounting systems for enterprise resource planning systems
new management accounting techniques, processes and information
linkages between competitive strategy and management accounting
Privatization, deregulation and other changes in the institutional business environment, and their
effect on management accounting and control system
Implementation of new costing systems (e.g., ABC) and new performance measurement systems
(e.g., BSC)

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Other topics

PCAOB, SOX, Antitakeover Laws

Political connection
Monetary Policy
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CSR, sustainability
E-commerce, electronic data interchange, electronic meetings,
Customer relationship management,
Supply chain management
Emerging markets finance

Institutions, culture and finance

Finance and economic growth
Corruption and mode of foreign bank/firm entry

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