
Professor Richard Harris
PhD, MSc, BSc, MSc
Expertise
I am a Professor of Finance in the School of Accounting and Finance at the University of Bristol.
Current positions
Professor of Finance
School of Accounting and Finance
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Biography
I am a Professor of Finance in the School of Accounting and Finance at the University of Bristol. I was previously a Professor of Finance at the University of Exeter, and have held visiting positions at Imperial, LSE, Warwick, and at universities in Belgium, China, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden and Russia.
I hold a BSc in Economics from UCL, an MSc in Economics from Birkbeck College, University of London and a PhD in Economics from the University of Exeter. I also have an MSc in Chinese Language, Business and International Relations from the University of Sheffield. I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a member of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment.
I have extensive consulting experience in the finance sector, working with investment banks, hedge funds, mutual funds, wealth management companies and regulators. Before becoming an academic, I worked as a software developer in the finance industry.
Research interests
Publications
Recent publications
01/01/2022Portfolio Optimization with Behavioural Preferences and Investor Memory
European Journal of Operational Research
A component Markov Regime-switching autoregressive conditional range model
Bulletin of Economic Research
Extreme downside risk and market turbulence
Quantitative Finance
Model-based earnings forecasts vs. financial analysts' earnings forecasts
British Accounting Review
Option-implied betas and the cross section of stock returns
Journal of Futures Markets
Teaching
I teach the MSc elective unit EFIMM0049 Financial Modelling. This is a very practical course that is concerned with the implementation of finance theory in Excel and Visual Basic.
I have previously taught courses in investments, corporate finance, derivatives, applied financial econometrics and econometric theory.