Richard Fairchild
Full
Name:
Dr Richard Fairchild
Department:
School of Management
(Room No: WH 8.52)
Job Title:
Senior Lecturer
Telephone:
+44 1225 823456
Fax:
+44 1225 462508
E-mail Address:
mnsrf@bath.ac.uk
Postal Address:
Dr
Richard Fairchild
School of Management
University of Bath
Bath
BA2 7AY
United Kingdom
Research Interests/publications.
View
this link for details of my research interests and publications:
CV November 2013.pdf
You
can access my papers on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) at the
following URL:
http://ssrn.com/author=334463
I
am editor-in-chief for International Journal of Behavioural Accounting and Finance,
which launched in 2009. See attached link for details;
http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=237#top
See
my latest working paper: “Emotional Games”, on SSRN (see this
link):
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2021113
Miscellaneous.
View
these links for details of my research links with the USA:
http://www.bath.ac.uk/management/news_events/news/2005/17-5.html
http://www.bath.ac.uk/management/news_events/news/2006/13-11.html
I
am an associate member of ACREF (Aston Centre for Research in Experimental
Finance).
http://www.abs.aston.ac.uk/newweb/research/ACREF/
I
have had a paper published on the “Venture Capital Experts” Website
(Co-authored with Dr Yiyuan Mai of the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Hubei,
China); See attached link;
http://www.bath.ac.uk/management/news_events/news/2006/30-11.html
See
my latest practitioner paper (co-authored with Nick Bullman:
CheckRisk LLP):
../../Profiles_Do_Not_Delete/campus/Desktop/Is%20Financial%20Market%20Risk%20Predictable%20September%2012th%202016%20(4).pdf
TEACHING:
2013/2014: SEMESTER 2 LECTURES:
In
Spring Semester 2, 2013/14, I provide the following courses;
MAF Corporate Finance
(MN50324).
The recommended text-book for this unit is a Customised Book, combining chapters from the Corporate
Finance Book by Hillier et al, and a Behavioural
Corporate Finance Book by Shefrin. The book has been specifically designed
with a focus on our course. More
details of this book, and where to order it, are provided on Moodle.
You will find the main lecture slides and the course
outline/reading list on Moodle.
Follow
these links for the homework
exercises that we will cover in the seminars:
Teaching
2012\MAF exercises\Backup of MN50324-decision tree.pdf
Teaching
2012\MAF exercises\MN50324-2009_RealOptions1.pdf
Teaching
2012\MAF exercises\Microsoft Word - MN50324 real options exercise 2.pdf
Teaching 2011\firm X
assignment.pdf
Teaching
2012\2012 Final\Microsoft Word - Debt Signalling
Game.pdf
Teaching
2012\2012 Final\Entrepreneur VC exercise.pdf
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These
links provide additional slides
on Venture capital, particularly focussing on behavioural effects in the VC/entrepreneur relationship
(such as empathy):
teaching 2010\Teaching slides Jan 2010\Microsoft PowerPoint
- Angels Versus Venture Capitalists AF presentation Nov 2009.pdf
Teaching 2011\VC Bath
2006 conference.pdf
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Throughout
the course, I will make reference to the new research area of behavioural
Corporate finance. The attached
slides will form the basis for this discussion:
teaching 2010\Teaching slides Jan 2010\BFWG Dec 2009.ppt
Teaching
2011\Managerial Entrapment in losing projects.pdf
Teaching 2011\Cass 2010 BCF.pdf
Teaching
2011\overconfidence1-combined.pdf
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You
may find this article informative. It is a case study of BT’s capital
structure:
Teaching 2011\Acapulco-BT.pdf
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MN30509:
Behavioural Finance
(This unit was brand new
last year; this is its second year in existence)
This is a final year Semester 2 Option
(pre-requisite MN20211):
Main Recommended Text-book (details on where to order this book appear on
Moodle):
Behavioral
Finance: Psychology, Decision-Making and Markets: by Ackert,
L, and R. Deaves (Publishers: Cengage South-Western).
Supplementary Text-book recommended:
Behavioral
Corporate Finance: Decisions that Create Value: by Hersh Shefrin. (Publishers:
McGraw-Hill).
Lecture Slides, and the course
outline/reading list, appear on Moodle.
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I no longer teach BBA/BAF
2: Corporate Finance (MN20211):
This course has been taken over by Thanos Verousis.
I thoroughly recommend the following website; www.bath.ac.uk/keyskills; this site
is useful in developing, for example, your essay writing skills!