Professor Daniella Acker
PhD
Current positions
A&F Emeritus Professor
School of Accounting and Finance - Business School
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Biography
Professor Acker trained and worked as a chartered accountant, moving to the University of Bristol in 1992 with a temporary lectureship in Finance and Accounting. She then studied for a PhD funded by a CATER fellowship awarded by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales; and was awarded a permanent lectureship at Bristol in 1997. She became Professor of Finance and Accounting in 2006 and retired at the end of 2020.
Research interests
Daniella Acker's research interests include the estimation of returns distributions, impacts of accounting events, returns volatility, corporate structure and taxation, and behavioural finance.
Publications
Recent publications
01/07/2018Political donations and political risk in the UK
Journal of Banking and Finance
Prediction Markets: Reality and Theory
Prediction Markets: Reality and Theory
Political risk, investor attention and the Scottish Independence referendum
Finance Research Letters
Do Investors Suffer from Money Illusion? A Direct Test of the Modigliani–Cohn Hypothesis
Review of Finance
Inflation Illusion and the Dividend Yield: Evidence from the UK
European Journal of Finance
Related people
Professor David Ashton
Emeritus Professor of Accounting and Finance
School of Accounting and Finance - Business School
Professor Ian Tonks
Professor of Finance
School of Accounting and Finance - Business School
Professor Helen Simpson
Associate Pro Vice Chancellor (Research & Innovation)
Social Sciences and Law Faculty Office