1Dear 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 yourDissertation Handbook fordetailed information on the generic requirement of yourdissertation.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 topicfor your dissertation. Based on the information collected, I will then allocate you a supervisor. Theprinciple here is to match your proposed topic with our expertise as closely as I can. However, I willnot be able to guarantee a 100% customer satisfaction because of the fixed number of dissertationeach colleague has tosupervise over the summer. To facilitate the match, Istrongly advise you toview our expertise and research areas fromour websites and here attached is alist of topics wewould like to supervise. However, the ultimate decision is yours to select a topic for yourdissertation. In other words, we encourage you to select a topic from the attached list but notlimited to it.Please contact your programme leaderif you have any enquiries on dissertation. Thanks and lookforward to working with you.Best wishes,Menthos (MSc Banking and Finance), Dimitrios (MSc Accounting and finance) and Liang (MS IFM)

2Banking and financial markets

Entry of foreign banks and their effect on the financial development of thecountry

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 profitabilityMerger 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 Firmsin Mergers andAcquisitions?

Cross-Border Acquisitions and the Effect of Legal Systems

Valuation in Takeover SituationCorporate 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 structureInitial Public Offerings (IPOs)

Earnings Management and IPO

IPOs in crises: How doesinternational 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 performanceof IPO firms.

Earnings quality at initial public offerings: UK Evidence.

IPO through a Cross listing (in a foreign market).Corporate Finance

Capital Structure

The connection between Operating Leverage and Financial Leverage

Issues of capital structure in Small and Medium Size businesses

Financing issues

Dividend policy

3Investment 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 corporateinvestment decisions?

Equity investment Styles, FamaFrench 3 factor & 4 factor models, Investment Performance,

Taxtual sentiment in financial accouncementsAccounting

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 resourceplanning 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 theireffect on management accounting and control system

Implementation of new costing systems (e.g., ABC) and new performance measurement systems(e.g., BSC)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