Queen's Management School Doctoral Colloquium 2016

Wednesday 8 June 2016, Lecture Theatre, Riddel Hall, Queen’s University Belfast

Innovation and New Technologies

The keynote speaker will be Dr Gerben Bakker, Associate Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics. Dr Bakker has published in the fields of innovation, economic and business history, corporate finance, and intellectual property rights. His research has appeared in journals such as The Journal of Economic History and Research Policy, and he is the author of a book on the industrialisation of entertainment published by Cambridge University Press in 2008.


9:00 - 9:30

• Introduction and Coffee Break

9:30 - 10:30 (Chair: David Jordan, PhD Economics student, QMS)

• Kilian Rieder (DPhil Economic History student, University of Oxford), 'A Historic(al) Run on Repo? Causes of Bank Distress during the Austro-Hungarian ‘Grunderkrach’ of 1873'
• William Quinn (PhD Finance student, QMS), 'Shares as Inflated as the Tyres: Security Pricing in the British Bicycle Mania, 1890-1900'

10:30 - 11:15

• Coffee Break and Poster Session (First-year PhD students from across QMS)

11:15 - 12:45 (Chair: William Quinn, PhD Finance student, QMS)

• Lisa Messina (PhD Management student, QMS), 'Human Capital and Social Capital as Promoters of Rapid International Development: An Analysis of University Spin-Out Companies'
• Ruth Reaney (PhD Management student, QMS), 'Labour Relations in the French Auto Industry: Examining the Impact of Competitive Pressures on Cooperation amongst Traditionally Divided Trade Unions'
• Gary Chapman (PhD Management student, QMS), 'Examining the Influence of Innovation Vouchers on Senior Managers’ Innovation-Orientated Attitudes'

12:45 - 14:00

• Lunch Break and Poster Session (First-year PhD students from across QMS)

14:00 - 15:00 (Chair: Lisa Messina, PhD Management student, QMS)

• Jiadong Liu (PhD Finance student, QMS), 'Financial Asset Return Signs and Time Series Momentum'
• Luca Papi (PhD Accounting student, University of Ferrara), 'Measuring Public Value: The Case of Ferrara’s Cultural Offer'

15:00 - 15:30

• Coffee Break

15:30 - 16:30

• Keynote Lecture by Dr Gerben Bakker (London School of Economics), 'A Vision of the Growth Process in a Technologically Progressive Economy: The United States, 1899-1941'

16:30 - 17:00

• Closing Remarks