Ronan Powell

Senior Lecturer and Assistant Director of MCom
BA (Hons) MSc Ulster, PhD Essex

 

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  Quadrangle Room: QUAD 3022
Phone Number: +61 2 9385 4925
Fax Number: +61 2 9385 6347
E-Mail Addresss: r.powell@unsw.edu.au
 

Research Interests

  • Takeover prediction
  • Performance and wealth effects of takeovers
  • Interrelationships between corporate restructuring events
  • Performance measurement techniques
  • Corporate governance
  • Information asymmetry, capital structure and pricing

Publications

  • Does Operating Performance Increase Post-Takeover for UK Takeovers? A Comparision of Performance Measures and Benchmarks, Journal of Corporate Finance, forthcoming (in print) (with Stark, A.).
  • Takeover Prediction and Portfolio Strategies: A Multinomial Approach, Multinational Finance Journal, forthcoming.
  • Takeover Prediction and Portfolio Performance, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, 28, 993-1011, 2001.
  • Identifying the Sources of Gains from Takeovers, Accounting Forum, 24, 1-24, 2000, (with Manson, S., Stark A. and H. Thomas).
  • Economic Income Concepts and the Measurement of Corporate Performance: A Review of Accounting and Value Based Management Alternatives, in: Value Based Management, Arnold, G., and M. Davies (eds), John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2000, (with Forker, J.).
  • Top Management Changes Following Hostile and Friendly Takeovers, Certified Research Report 61, Certified Accountants Educational Trust, (London 1999), (with Dayha, J.).
  • Ownership Structure, Managerial Turnover and Takeovers: Further UK Evidence on the Market for Corporate Control, Multinational Finance Journal, 2(1), 62-83, 1998, (with Dayha J.).
  • Modelling Takeover Likelihood, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, 24 (7 & 8), Special Issue on Valuation, Accounting and Corporate Finance, 1009-30, 1997.
  • Modelling Take-over Likelihood - Comparisons using Logit Analysis, Neural Networks and Expert Systems, Financial Information Systems Conference - Proceedings, 23-37, 1996, (with Dyson, K.).

Working Papers

  • Industry Aspects of Takeovers and Divestitures: Evidence from the UK, (with Yawson, A.).
  • Restructuring Strategies Pursued by Healthy and Distressed UK Firms, (with Yawson, A.).
  • Earnings Measurement and the Valuation of Firms (with Forker, J.)
  • Are Corporate Restructuring Events Driven by Common Financial Factors? The Case of Takeovers, Divestitures and Bankruptcies (with Yawson, A.

Teaching Responsibilities

  • FINS5514 - Capital Budgeting and Financial Decisions
  • FINS4777/5777 - Advanced Topics in Corporate Finance

Administrative Responsibilities

  • Assistant Director of MCom
  • School representative on the undergraduate review and innovation committee (URIG)

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