Meziane Lasfer

Position(s):	Professor of Finance Course Director, MSc Finance
Qualifications:	BSc, Dip (LSE), MSc Business Administration(Bath), PhD (Bath)
Faculty:	Finance
Expertise:	Asset pricing, Corporate restructuring, Debt financing, Dividend policy, Fundamentals of stock returns, Ownership structure, R&D, Short-termism, SMEs
Telephone:	+44 (0) 20 7040 8634
Fax:	+44 (0) 20 7040 8881
Mobile:	07766864954
Room:	5049
E-mail:	m.a.lasfer@city.ac.uk

Background

Meziane Lasfer won a scholarship towards a master's degree and followed this up with accounting and corporate finance qualifications from the LSE and University of Bath. He joined the Business School in 1990. He has written extensively on Corporate Finance, Capital Markets and Corporate Governance issues. His research is widely reported in the financial press and was sponsored by the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF), the Finance Lease Association (FLA) and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and various companies (e.g., BP, Donaldsons and Land Securities-Trillium). The outcome of his research is published in top academic journals such as Journal of Finance, Journal of Finance and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Financial Management and European Financial Management. Meziane is the Director of the MSc Finance programme and he has directed the CUBS PhD programme from 1996-1999 and acted as Director of Research to April 2000. He teaches Corporate Finance, Financial Analysis, Research project Management and Financial Economics to MBA, MSc and PhD students. In addition he taught executives in UK and abroad. His outstanding teaching performance led him to win the first Dean's Prize for Teaching Excellence in 1998 and 2003. He is visiting professor at University Paris Dauphine and University Paris XII Creteil.

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