Dr Danial Hemmings
Lecturer in Finance
Year 1 Academic Tutor for Bangor Business School
Division: Financial Studies, Bangor Business School
Location: Room 2.09, Hen Goleg
Telephone: 01248 38 8162
Email: d.hemmings@bangor.ac.uk
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Overview
Profile
Lecturer in Finance
Dr Danial Hemmings is a Lecturer in Finance at Bangor Business School. He gained his PhD in Accounting and Finance at Bangor University in 2017 while a member of academic staff. Danial has broad teaching experience in the areas of Corporate Finance, Behavioural Finance, Financial Markets, Financial Management, Accounting and Accounting Communication, as well as experience in PhD-level training, supervision and examination. He is also active in researching topics across both Accounting and Finance and has published his research in high-quality international journals and presented at international conferences and as an invited speaker at other prominent business schools.
Danial is currently involved in a portfolio of research projects spanning topics in the areas of disclosure and financial reporting quality, corporate governance and shareholder votes, initial and follow-on equity offerings, alternative floatation devices, as well as analyst and social media-disseminated research. He has also been involved in projects funded by the Welsh Government, ESRC, British Academy and Leverhulme Trust. Danial is passionate about teaching and strives to incorporate his research activities and exposures into his teaching.
Qualifications
PhD in Accounting and Finance, Bangor University
MSc in Accounting and Finance
BSc in Accounting and Finance
Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education
Roles within Bangor Business School
- Year 1 Academic Tutor for BBS
- Lecturer in Finance
- Personal tutor
Teaching and Supervision
Teaching
Undergraduate Teaching
ASB-1117 Financial Techniques and Analysis
ADB-1117 Technegau a Dadansoddiad Cyllidol
ASB-2202 & ASB-3200 Corporate Finance
ASB-3309 Behavioural Finance
Supervision of undergraduate research projects
Year 1 study skills provision
Postgraduate Teaching
ASB-4433 Behavioural Finance Theory and Practice
ASB-4907 Accounting Dissertation
ASB-4932 Foundation in Social Research
Supervision of postgraduate research projects
PhD Supervision
Ngoc Khanh Vy Tran (2017 to present) - SEC reviews and information quality of IPO prospectuses
Mahmoud Abdelkader Ali Abdelrahman (2018 to present) - Ownership structure, financial reporting quality, and corporations' use of tax havens
Research Interests
Working Papers
“Does ‘puffery’ matter? Positive framing and market conditioning prior to SEOs”.
“Real earnings management in European private and public firms”, Co-authors: Jingwen Yang, Aziz Jaafar and Richard Jackson.
“Market timing when issuers cannot afford to wait? The relationship between overpricing and capital needs for UK seasoned issuers”, Co-authors: Lynn Hodgkinson and Qingwei Wang.
Postgraduate Project Opportunities
Publications
2020
- PublishedIt’s OK to pay well, if you write well: The effects of remuneration disclosure readability
Hemmings, D., Hodgkinson, L. & Williams, G., May 2020, In : Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. 47, 5-6, p. 547-586
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
2018
- PublishedHeterogeneous effects of the SEC's Securities Offering Reform
Hemmings, D., Hodgkinson, L. & Wang, Q., 30 Sep 2018, In : Economics Letters. 170, p. 131-135
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
2017
- PublishedExplaining Communication Choices during Equity Offerings: Market Timing or Impression Management?
Hemmings, D., Brennan, N. M. & Merkl-Davies, D. M., Nov 2017, Handbook of Investor Relations and Financial Communications. Laskin, A. (ed.). Wiley
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Activities
2018
- Invited research seminar at Newcastle University Business School
Jan 2018
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)
2017
- Invited research seminar at Warwick Business School
Mar 2017
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)
2016
- Invited research seminar at SKEMA Business School, Lille, France
Sep 2016
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)
Other Information
Other Activites
- Associate editor for Journal of Risk Finance.
- Ad hoc reviewer for Corporate Governance: An International Review, European Journal of Finance, Accounting and Business Research, British Accounting Review, Journal of Business Ethics, and Economics Letters.