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Dr Christos Mavrovitis (Mavis)

Senior Lecturer in Finance and Accounting
BSc, MSc, SFHEA, PhD
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Academic and research departments

Finance and Accounting, Surrey Business School.

About

Areas of specialism

Corporate Finance; Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Governance

University roles and responsibilities

  • Programme Director of MSc in International Corporate Finance, 2016 - Present
  • Staff Mid-career Development Lead, 2024 - Present
  • Internal Examiner of PhD Theses, 2013 - Present
  • Supervisor of MSc students, 2012 - Present
  • Personal Placement Tutor, 2012 - Present
  • Personal Academic Tutor, 2012 - Present

    Previous roles

    Programme Director of MSc in International Financial Management, 2015 - 2017
    Department Website Coordinator, 2012 - 2015
    PGR Summer School Tutor, 2013 - 2015
    Task force member of the University of Surrey Business and Economics Experiment (USBEE), 2017 - 2023

    Affiliations and memberships

    Senior Fellow of HEA (SFHEA)
    Awarded by Advance HE, the Senior Fellowship recognises professionals with a long-standing commitment to excellence in teaching, learning and leadership.
    Certified Management and Business Educator (CMBE)
    Awarded by the Chartered Association of Business Schools the CMBE is a professional status for business and management educators who meet the required standards and make a commitment to continuous professional development.

    Research

    Research interests

    Indicators of esteem

    • Referee for the Journal of Corporate Finance

    • Referee for the British Accounting Review

    • Referee for European Financial Management

    • Referee for Long Range Planning

    • Referee for Corporate Governance: An International Review

    • Referee for European Journal of Finance

    • Referee for International Journal of the Economics of Business

    • Referee for International Journal of Banking, Accounting and Finance

    • Referee for International Review of Financial Analysis

    • Referee for Economic Modelling

    Invited Presentations

    • University of Southampton, Southampton, 2024
    • Queen's Management School, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2023
    • Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), Erasmus University, Netherlands, 2022
    • Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), Gujarat, India, 2022
    • Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), Gujarat, India, 2020
    • Management School, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK, 2019
    • Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), Gujarat, India, 2019
    • School of Business, Management, and Economics, University of Sussex, Sussex, UK, 2017
    • ICMA Centre, University of Reading, Reading, UK, 2017
    • Strathclyde Business School, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, 2016
    • Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK, 2014

    External Examiner

    • University of Oxford, Said Business School, UK - Executive MBA, 2023 to date
    • Edinburgh Napier University, UK - Validation of accounting and finance UG and PG programmes, 2022
    • University of Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire, UK - BA (Hons) Finance, Accounting, 2015 - 2021

    Supervision

    Postgraduate research supervision

    Teaching

    Publications

    Highlights

    To view the full list of my publications and working papers please click the links below:

     

    Most recent publication

    Twitter Investor Sentiment and Corporate Earnings Announcements

    European Financial Management, 2023, 29 (3), pp. 953-986

    We examine the impact of firm‐specific investor sentiment (FSIS) on stock returns for negative and positive earnings surprises. Using a measure constructed from firm‐specific tweets, we find that FSIS has a greater impact on stock returns for negative relative to positive earnings surprises. We further show that the impact of FSIS is greater for firms whose valuation is uncertain and difficult to arbitrage. Moreover, we provide evidence of return reversals over post‐announcement periods. Our results highlight the importance of FSIS around earnings announcements.