Sasha Talavera

Sasha Talavera

The Department of Economics
Professor in Financial Economics

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 5031
Email
o.talavera@bham.ac.uk
Twitter
@https://twitter.com/SashaTalavera
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Address
Department of Economics
University House
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Sasha Talavera joined the Department of Economics at Birmingham Business School in 2019 as a Professor in Financial Economics.

Feedback and office hours

By appointment

Qualifications

  • PhD in Economics, European University Viadrina
  • MA in Economics, Boston College
  • MA in Economics, Kyiv School of Economics
  • BA in Economics, Ostroh Academy

Biography

Prior to joining the department, Sasha was a Professor of Finance at the School of Management, Swansea University. He also worked for University of Sheffield, Durham University, University of East Anglia, the Robert Gordon University, and DIW-Berlin. He is broadly interested in online-prices, big data analytics, banking, international finance, empirical corporate finance, and emerging market economies.

More details are available on www.otalavera.com.

Teaching

Applied Econometrics (PG)

Postgraduate supervision

Postgraduate Supervision

  • Zhenyi Zhai (2022 – present)
  • Yiqian Zhou (2022 – present)
  • Zhuangchen Wu (2021 – present)

Doctoral Research

  • Abdullah F. AlSabah (2022), “Essays on Information Arrival and Asset Prices”, placement: Capital Market Authority of Kuwait
  • Linh Vi (2022), “Essays on Employment and Wages in Online Labour Markets”, placement: Aston University
  • Ge Gao (2022), “Essays on the Peer-to-Peer Lending Markets”,  placement: Beijing Sport University
  • Said Kaawach (2022), “ Essays on Peer-to-Peer Lending “, placement: University of Huddersfield
  • Nam Vu Hoai (2020) “Essays on Price-Setting in Online Markets”, placement: NHS England

Doctoral research

PhD title

Research

Banking, financial markets, fintech, social networks, corporate finance, behavioural finance, house prices, text analysis, big data.


 

Other activities

  • International Monetary Fund (IMF) expert
  • Editorial Board of Bank i Kredyt (Journal of the Narodowy Bank Polski),
  • Editorial Board of Visnyk NBU (Herald of the National Bank of Ukraine),
  • Founder and member of Editorial board of VoxUkraine.org

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Arias, J, Talavera, O & Tsapin, A 2022, 'Bank liquidity and exposure to industry shocks: evidence from Ukraine', Emerging Markets Review, vol. 53, 100942. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ememar.2022.100942

Pham, T, Talavera, O & Tsapin, A 2022, 'Branch network structure, authority and lending behaviour', Economic Systems. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecosys.2022.101040

Perroni, C, Scharf, K, Talavera, O & Vi, L 2022, 'Does online salience predict charitable giving? Evidence from SMS text donations', Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 197, pp. 134-149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2022.02.015

Caglayan, M, Talavera, O & Xiong, L 2022, 'Female small business owners in China: discouraged, not discriminated', Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, vol. 80, 101649. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intfin.2022.101649

Yilmaz, O, Talavera, O & Jia, JY 2022, 'Rental market liquidity, seasonality, and distance to universities', International Journal of the Economics of Business. https://doi.org/10.1080/13571516.2022.2033078

Gedikli, C, Hill, R, Talavera, O & Yilmaz, O 2022, 'The hidden cost of smoking: rent premia in the housing market', Real Estate Economics. https://doi.org/10.1111/1540-6229.12399

Gorodnichenko, Y, Pham, T & Talavera, O 2022, 'The voice of monetary policy', The American Economic Review.

Gorodnichenko, Y, Pham, T & Talavera, O 2021, 'Conference presentations and academic publishing', Economic Modelling, vol. 95, pp. 228-254. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2020.12.017

Caglayan, M, Talavera, O & Zhang, W 2021, 'Herding behaviour in P2P lending markets', Journal of Empirical Finance, vol. 63, pp. 27-41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jempfin.2021.05.005

Śpiewanowski, P & Talavera, O 2021, 'Journal rankings and publication strategy', Scientometrics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-021-03891-5

Hargreaves Heap, S & Talavera, O 2021, 'Policy innovation through noise in implementation: best to be grey (or silver) on Friday, in Halifax', Scottish Journal of Political Economy. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjpe.12302

Gorodnichenko, Y, Talavera, O & Vu, N 2021, 'Quality and price setting of high-tech goods', Economic Modelling, vol. 98, pp. 69-85. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2021.02.010

Gorodnichenko, Y, Pham, T & Talavera, O 2021, 'Social media, sentiment and public opinions: evidence from #Brexit and #USElection', European Economic Review, vol. 136, 103772. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2021.103772

Talavera, O, Yin, S & Zhang, M 2021, 'Tournament incentives, age diversity and firm performance', Journal of Empirical Finance, vol. 61, pp. 139-162. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jempfin.2021.01.003

Letter

Pham, T, Talavera, O, Wood, G & Yin, S 2021, 'Quality of working environment and corporate financial distress', Finance Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2021.102449

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