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The Institute of Finance and Accounting (IFA) was established in 1974, with the aim of providing the infrastructure and leverage required for London Business School to become an international centre of excellence in financial research and education. From its modest beginnings, the IFA has now developed into one of the world's leading centres. It has the largest and best-known concentration of finance and accounting faculty outside North America, and top visiting professors, including a number of Nobel Prize winners. When the IFA was established in 1974, there were just four finance faculty members at London Business School. Today, there are 22 faculty members in finance and a further eight in the accounting area. The faculty are supported in their work by a Subject Area Administrator and four administrators. The Institute carries out high quality research focusing on the major interests and concerns of the UK and international financial communities. In particular, it has made important contributions to the understanding of equities, bond and derivative markets, corporate finance, investment management, international finance, corporate restructuring, corporate governance, behavioural finance, entrepreneurial finance, asset pricing, capital markets, market microstructure, financial institutions and intermediation, financial regulation, and the international competitiveness of financial centres. The IFA's research has a strong emphasis on real-world relevance. Both the applied nature, and the breadth and depth of the Institute's research activities is demonstrated in its' working papers and publications. In addition to publishing in the conventional top academic journals, the School's finance group also makes considerable efforts to disseminate its research to practitioners through other channels, thereby influencing corporate practice and financial policy making, and making important contributions to innovation and the adoption of best practice. |
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