| Position(s): |
HSBC Professor of Banking and Finance
Director of MBA Finance |
| Qualifications: |
MA Glasgow |
| Faculty: |
Finance |
| Expertise: |
Analysis of economic and political survey data, Applied econometrics, Asset pricing, Behavioural finance, Financial derivatives, Financial econometrics, Forecasting, Forecasting in financial markets, Monetary and macro economics, Non-linear forecasting, Time-series modelling and forecasting |
| Telephone: |
+44 (0) 20 7040 8733 |
| Fax: |
+44 (0) 20 7040 8881 |
| Room: |
5082 |
| E-mail: |
r.a.batchelor@city.ac.uk |
BackgroundRoy Batchelor is Professor of Banking and Finance at Cass Business School, City of London. He is a Fellow and Research Professor at the CES-Ifo Institute of the University of Munich, and Visiting Professor of Finance at the British University in Dubai.
After graduating from Glasgow University, Roy worked as a government scientist and economist; then at the UK National Institute of Economic and Social Research, forecasting and analyzing the UK economy, and writing on world trade and industrialization; and at a leading firm of London stockbrokers, where he tried to forecast the stock market.
Professor Batchelor’s research and teaching now focuses on economic and financial market forecasting, rationality and behavioural finance, and risk management in financial markets. He has published widely in these fields. He was Associate Editor of the International Journal of Forecasting, and is currently an Editor of the practitioner journal Foresight. He is co-author, with Professor Pami Dua, of Financial Forecasting (Edward Elgar, 2004, 2 volumes, 1133 pages).
In addition to academic work, Professor Batchelor is active in professional training and consultancy, and has conducted seminars on technical innovations in economics and finance for professional audiences in London, New York, Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai, Dubai, Mumbai, and other international financial centres. He was lead speaker at the UK-Korea Business Forum held in Seoul as part of the State Visit of HM Queen Elizabeth II to Korea in April 1999. He has held visiting appointments at Purdue University, the University of Connecticut, the Stockholm School of Economics, and ESCP/EAP Paris.
Professor Batchelor has acted as economic adviser to stockbrokers Smith New Court, to the London International Financial Futures Exchange, to the World Gold Council, to Canadean (a leading international market research company), and other commercial organisations. He has given expert legal evidence in cases relating to the quality of financial forecasting and trading systems. He has conducted research for the European Commission and the UK Treasury, prepared submissions for Parliamentary Committees, and served on the Bank of England's Panel of Academic Advisors.
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