Professor Paula Hill
B.Sc.(University of Manchester), Ph.D.(University of Leeds)
Current positions
Professor of Finance and Accounting
School of Accounting and Finance - Business School
Contact
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Research interests
Paula Hill has published work in the area of corporate finance/ IPOs. Her current research focuses on the prediction of changes in credit quality and the impact of these changes on asset prices.
Projects and supervisions
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Selected publications
01/06/2010Variations in Sovereign Credit Quality Assessments Across Rating Agencies
Journal of Banking and Finance
The impact of diverse measures of default risk on UK stock returns
Journal of Banking and Finance
Recent publications
01/03/2019Political uncertainty exposure of individual companies
Journal of Banking and Finance
Initial compensation contracts for new executives and financial distress risk
Journal of Corporate Finance
New evidence on sovereign to corporate credit rating spill-overs
International Review of Financial Analysis
The use of earnings and operations management to avoid credit rating downgrades
Accounting and Business Research
The impact of diverse measures of default risk on UK stock returns
Journal of Banking and Finance
