Professor Douglas Cumming

Professor Douglas Cumming

The Department of Finance
Visiting Professor of Finance

Contact details

Address
Birmingham Business School
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Douglas Cumming, J.D., Ph.D., CFA, is the DeSantis Distinguished Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship at the College of Business, Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. Douglas is also a Visiting Professor of Finance at Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, UK. 

Douglas has published 21 books and over 200 articles in leading refereed academic journals (including 40 in Financial Times top 50 journals) in finance, management, and law and economics, such as the Academy of Management Journal, Economic Journal, Journal of Business, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of International Business Studies, and the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. 

In November 2022, Douglas was listed by Clarivate as one of the top 92 most cited researchers in the world in the business and economics category.  Douglas' work has been cited over 24,000 times according to Google Scholar.

Douglas is the Managing Editor-in-Chief of the Review of Corporate Finance (2021-current).  He is a Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Industrial and Business Economics (2021-current).  He is a former Managing Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Management (January 2020 - December 2022) and the Journal of Corporate Finance (January 2018 – December 2020). He is an Editor of Corporate Governance: An International Review (January 2015 - current). 

Douglas’ work has been reviewed in numerous media outlets, including The Economist, The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Wall Street Journal, the Globe and Mail, Canadian Business, the National Post, and The New Yorker.

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Qualifications

  • CFA, Chartered Financial Analysts Institute 2000-2002
  •  Ph.D. University of Toronto (Economics & Finance) 1995-1999
  •  J.D. University of Toronto (Law) 1994-1998
  •  M.A. Queen's University (Economics) 1992-1993
  •  B.Com. (Hons.) McGill University (Economics & Finance) 1988-1992

Biography

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Douglas Cumming is a Visiting Professor of Finance at the University of Birmingham.  His biography is wikipedia 

Teaching

International Treasury Management, Singapore, May 2023

Research

Douglas Cumming works in areas that include venture capital, private equity, fintech, crowdfunding, hedge funds, mutual funds, entrepreneurship, international business.  Check his Google Scholar

Other activities

Sustainable Finance and Innovation Centre Conference organizer

Research Member, European Corporate Governance Institute, 2023-current

Editor-in-Chief, Review of Corporate Finance, 2021-current

Editor-in-Chief, British Journal of Management, 2020-2022

Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Corporate Finance, 2018-2020

Editor-in-Chief, Finance Research Letters, 2015-2017

Publications

Cumming, D.J., and M. Zhang, 2022. “Bankruptcy Law and Angel Investors around the World” Journal of International Business Studies, forthcoming.   

Cumming, D.J., L. Hass, L.A. Myers, and M. Tarsalewska, 2022. “Venture Capital and Disclosure of Material Weaknesses in Internal Control” Journal of Business Ethics, forthcoming 

Cumming, D.J., G. Nguyen, and M. Nguyen, 2022. "Product Market Competition, Venture Capital, and the Success of Entrepreneurial Firms" Journal of Banking and Finance, forthcoming.  

Cumming, D.J., and L. Hornuf, 2022. “Marketplace Lending of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises” Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 16(1), 32-66. 

Cumming, D.J., H. Farag, S. Johan, and D. McGowan, 2022. “The Digital Credit Divide: Marketplace Lending and Entrepreneurship” Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, forthcoming 

Cumming, D.J., F. Hervé, E. Manthé and A. Schwienbacher, 2022. “Testing-the-Waters Policy with Hypothetical Investment: Evidence from Equity Crowdfunding” Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 46 (4), 1019-1053 

Bellavitis, C., D.J. Cumming, and T. Vanacker, 2022. “Ban, Boom, and Echo! Entrepreneurship and Initial Coin Offerings” Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 46(5), 1136-1169. 

Alperovych, Y., D. Cumming, V. Czellar, A. Groh, 2021. "M&A Rumors about Unlisted Firms" Journal of Financial Economics, 142(3), 1324-1339  

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