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Centre for Empirical Research in Finance and Banking (CERFIB)

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Our aim is to enhance understanding of the growing challenges that corporations, financial markets and banks are facing in developing national and global landscapes.

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We are a centre of excellence based within Southampton Business School, undertaking rigorous theoretical and empirical research in banking and financial economics. We aim to promote substantive academic partnership with industry and academics around the world, producing cutting-edge research outputs and impact.

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Can we make the world better via our research? I am driven by this ethos, building quantitative models to understand complex behaviour of economic agents.
Professor Tapas Mishra
Professor of Banking And Finance
I am a leading expert in finance and financial markets - I apply both theoretical and empirical mechanisms to model and predict financial markets.
Professor Taufiq Choudhry
Head of Department-Banking and Finance
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The Debt Dilemma: How Rising Debt Levels May Widen Inequality in the UK

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Debt and inequality are two issues that increasingly dominate discussions across Western Europe.

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Please email us if you have any queries about the activities of CERFIB, potential research collaborations and visits.
cerfib@soton.ac.uk