Prof Ian Davidson

Biography

Head of the School of Business, Management and Economics since its inception in 2009, Prof. Ian Davidson was the Director of the Business School and Professor of Accounting and Finance at Loughborough University from 2002 to 2009, Associate Dean and Professor of Finance at Warwick Business School from 1992 to 2002, Boots Professor of Accounting and Finance at the University of Nottingham from 1988 to 2002, Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Denver prior to that and Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Bristol. Ian was a member of the Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales from 1994 to 1997, a member of the Technical Committee, Research Board and Education and Training Directorate and a member of the Board of Accreditation of Educational Courses (BAEC) for British and Irish Universities from 1992 to 1996 and until recently the Director (for Europe) of the (U.S.) MBA Roundtable and a member of the GMAC organising committee for the 2003 Leadership Conference in New Orleans. Qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Price Waterhouse (London), Ian is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.  

Ian’s research interests include the cross-sectional influences on security returns (both from a theoretical and empirical perspective), determinants of the equity share premium, long-term influences on equity returns, European bank takeovers, some aspects of corporate governamce and more recently the application of quantum mechanics to the statistical distribution of security returns.

Recent publications appear in such journals as Abacus, Physica A, European Financial Management, Financial Analysts Journal, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Applied Financial Economics, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Accounting and Business Research and European Journal of Finance.

Answers to chapter problems in ‘Principles of Equity Valuation’ by Ian Davidson & Mark Tippett (published by Routledge):

The Measurement of Returns on Bonds, Equities and Other Financial Instruments [PDF 401.36KB]

Role

Head of School of Business, Management and Economics.

Ian’s research interests include the cross-sectional influences on security returns (both from a theoretical and empirical perspective), determinants of the equity share premium, long-term influences on equity returns, European bank takeovers, some aspects of corporate governamce and more recently the application of quantum mechanics to the statistical distribution of security returns.

Davidson, Ian, Hang, L and Ali, A (2012) Corporate Diversification, Information Asymmetry and Insider Trading. British Journal of Management.

Davidson, Ian, Guo, Qian, Song, Xiaojing and Tippett, Mark (2012) The construction of asset pricing models with specific factor loadings. Abacus, 48 (2). pp. 199-213. ISSN 0001-3072

Ataullah, Ali, Davidson, Ian and Le, Hang (2010) Large Shareholders, the Board of Directors and the Allocation of Cash Proceeds from Corporate Asset Sell-offs. European Financial Management, 16 (2). pp. 271-295. ISSN 1354-7798

King, Ruth and Davidson, Ian (2009) University accounting programmes and professional accountancy training: can UK pragmatism inform the Australian debate? Australian Accounting Review, 19 (3). pp. 261-273. ISSN 1035-6908

Davidson, Ian, Shinozawa, Yoshikatsu and Tippett, Mark (2009) Capital Project Analysis When Cash Flows Evolve as a Continuous Time Branching Process. Abacus, 45 (1). pp. 44-65. ISSN 0001-3072

Ismail, Ahmad, Davidson, Ian and Frank, Regina (2009) Operating Performance of European Bank Mergers. Service Industries Journal, 29 (3). pp. 345-366. ISSN 0264-2069

Attaullah, Ali, Davidson, Ian and Tippett, Mark (2009) A wave function for Stock Market Returns. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 388 (4). pp. 455-461. ISSN 0378-4371

Davidson, Ian and Shuttleworth, Penny (2004) Charging for NHSPlus: An Inferential Study Based on the Internal Provision of Occupational Health Services within the National Health Service. Occupational Medicine, 54 (3). pp. 165-171. ISSN 0962-7480