The Centre for Global Finance (CGF)

The Centre for Global Finance at Bristol Business School was established in 2008 as a Centre of Excellence to draw upon the skills of research active staff whose work enjoys a national and in some cases international reputation. The Centre, one of six such centres at BBS, brings together research active staff not only from the Department of Accounting Economics and Finance, but also from other departments and faculities from across the University of the West of England and further afield.

CGF aim and objectives

The aim of the Centre is to produce high quality research outputs, research dissemination, knowledge exchange, and education for an international audience of academics, practitioners, and students in the following areas:

  • financial markets
  • corporate finance
  • international corporate financial reporting
  • financial economics
  • banking and international monetary systems
  • governance and accountability

In pursuit of this aim, the CGF has the following objectives:

  • To produce high quality research to be disseminated to an international audience by means of conference presentation, academic journal output and other forms of output
  • To produce knowledge exchange (business-facing) outputs with relevance both to a national and international practitioner audience, focusing in particular on practical issues within the finance sector
  • To deliver an MSc Finance programme with a growing reputation and which is underpinned by a core of research-active academic staff
  • To support a community of academics, providing them with a rewarding and exciting research environment, providing avenues for the dissemination of their work, and giving advice on research funding opportunities
  • To provide an active, rigorous and coherent PhD programme, focusing on the themes of the Centre
  • To provide a location and infrastructure for research and practitioner conferences in the area of global finance
  • To actively seek out and increase contacts with other research centres both within the UK and overseas
  • To provide visiting academics with the opportunity to contribute to the work of the Centre and collaborate in joint research projects

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