Kevin Aretz

Professor of Finance

About Me

I am a Professor of Finance at Alliance Manchester Business School. I hold a PhD degree from Lancaster University. Prior to joining Manchester, I worked at Lancaster University and as part-time academic advisor for Old Mutual Asset Management.

My research interests are in the areas of theoretical and empirical cross-sectional asset pricing, empirical corporate finance, and econometrics. 

In my recent work, I use real options asset pricing models to explain stock return anomalies. Also, I employ shock-based inference methods to study corporate finance phenomena, such as access to debt. I have also started studying the cross-section of returns of non-equity asset classes, such as options or bonds.

I have presented my research at all major global finance conferences, including the European Finance Association (EFA) meetings, the Financial Intermediation Research Society (FIRS) meetings, and the Western Finance Association (WFA) meetings.

I have published in journals such as the Journal of Finance, Management Science, the Journal of Financial & Quantitative Analysis, the Review of Finance, the Journal of Corporate Finance, the Journal of Banking and Finance, and the International Journal of Forecasting.  

You can download my curriculum vitae from HERE.

You can access my research on SSRN from HERE.

Representative Publications

Contact

Alliance Manchester Business School

Crawford House M33, Booth Street East

Manchester  M15 6PB,  United  Kingdom

e-mail: kevin.aretzATmanchester.ac.uk

telephone: +44(0) 161 275 0122