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Associate Professor Barry Oliver

Finance Discipline Leader
School of Business
+61 7 334 68037
Room 349, Colin Clark Building, St. Lucia Campus
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Researcher biography

Barry is a Discipline Head of Finance in the UQ Business School.

Barry has over 20 years experience as a researcher in finance. He has held various administrative positions. Prior to his current position he was Reader in Finance at the ANU. He has published in major academic journals including Journal of Banking and Finance, International Review of Finance, Pacific Basin Finance Journal, Australian Journal of Management and Accounting and Finance. After completing his PhD in 2001 he returned to study psychology completing this in 2008. From then his research has been strongly influenced by psychology.

He has presented his research at many local and international refereed conferences as well as many local and overseas universities. He supervises Honours, Masters and PhD students.

He has been involved in ARC research grants in excess of $1m.

Books and Monographs Corporate Finance, 5th edition (with Steve Bishop, Robert Faff and Garry Twite), Pearson Education. 2005. Research design issues in the estimation of beta (with Tim Brailsford and Robert Faff), McGraw-Hill Series in Advanced Finance, 1997.

Refereed Conference Papers I have attended many refereed academic conferences and university seminars and presented my research. Recent major conferences in which I have presented and/or attended and discussed and chaired presentations include AFAANZ, Asian Finance Association, European FMA, WFA, AFA, Australasian Finance & Banking conference and the Behavioral Finance and Capital Markets Conference.

Publications

Books (2)
Book Chapters (2)
Journal Articles (26)

Books

Bishop, Steve, Faff, Robert, Oliver, Barry, and Twite, Garry Corporate finance 5th ed. Australia: Pearson Education, 2004.
Brailsford, Timothy J., Faff, Robert W. and Oliver, Barry Research design issues in the estimation of Beta. Sydney, NSW, Australia: McGraw-Hill, 1997.

Book Chapters

Brailsford, Tim and Oliver, Barry (1997). Time-varying volatility estimates in option pricing: can superior estimates be obtained?. In Theodore Bos and Thomas A. Fetherson (Ed.), Advances in Pacific Basin financial markets (pp. 191-212) London: JAI Press.
Oliver, Barry and Psaros, Jim (1987). Audit reports: Does AUP3 provide adequate guidance?. In Michael Harding, Barry J. Cooper, William R. Edge and Kevin R. Adams (Ed.), Readings and Case Studies in Auditing 3rd ed. (pp. ---) Sydney, NSW: Law Book Co.

Journal Articles

Zhaunerchyk, Katsiaryna, Haghighi, Afshin and Oliver, Barry (2020) Distraction effects on stock return co-movements: Confirmation from the Shenzhen and Shanghai stock markets. Pacific Basin Finance Journal, 61 101301. doi:10.1016/j.pacfin.2020.101301
Rahman, Dewan, Oliver, Barry and Faff, Robert (2020) Evidence of strategic information uncertainty around opportunistic insider purchases. Journal of Banking & Finance, 105821. doi:10.1016/j.jbankfin.2020.105821
McCarthy, Scott, Oliver, Barry and Verreynne, Martie-Louise (2017) Bank financing and credit rationing of Australian SMEs. Australian Journal of Management, 42 1: 58-85. doi:10.1177/0312896215587316
McCarthy, Scott, Oliver, Barry and Song, Sizhe (2017) Corporate social responsibility and CEO confidence. Journal of Banking and Finance, 75 280-291. doi:10.1016/j.jbankfin.2016.11.024
Cheah, Kuan Kiat, Foster, F. Douglas, Heaney, Richard, Higgins, Timothy, Oliver, Barry, O'Neill, Terry and Russell, Roslyn (2015) Discussions on long-term financial choice. Australian Journal of Management, 40 3: 414-434. doi:10.1177/0312896214532476
Oliver, Barry, Pérez-Gladish, Blanca and Mendex, Paz (2015) Corporate social responsibility, stock salience, and the asymmetric market impact of consumer sentiment news on Spanish firms. Review of Behavioral Finance, 7 2: 98-115. doi:10.1108/RBF-05-2014-0030
Avkiran, Necmi K., Kanol, Direnc K. and Oliver, Barry (2015) Knowledge of campaign finance regulation reduces perceptions of corruption. Accounting and Finance, 56 4: 961-984. doi:10.1111/acfi.12121
Akhtar, Shumi, Faff, Robert, Oliver, Barry and Subrahmanyam, Avanidhar (2013) Reprint of: stock salience and the asymmetric market effect of consumer sentiment news. Journal of Banking and Finance, 37 11: 4488-4500. doi:10.1016/j.jbankfin.2013.07.032
Akhtar, Shumi, Faff, Robert, Oliver, Barry and Subrahmanyam, Avanidhar (2012) Stock salience and the asymmetric market effect of consumer sentiment news. Journal of Banking and Finance, 36 12: 3289-3301. doi:10.1016/j.jbankfin.2012.07.019
Akhtar, Shumi, Faff, Robert and Oliver, Barry (2011) The asymmetric impact of consumer sentiment announcements on Australian foreign exchange rates. Australian Journal of Management, 36 3: 387-403. doi:10.1177/0312896211410723
Akhtar, Shumi, Faff, Robert, Oliver, Barry and Subrahmanyam, Avanidhar (2011) The power of bad: The negativity bias in Australian consumer sentiment announcements on stock returns. Journal of Banking and Finance, 35 5: 1239-1249. doi:10.1016/j.jbankfin.2010.10.014
Oliver, Barry R. and Mefteh, Salma (2010) Capital structure choice: The influence of sentiment in France. International Journal of Behavioural Accounting and Finance, 1 4: 294-311. doi:10.1504/IJBAF.2010.032844
Oliver, Barry R. (2010) The impact of market sentiment on capital structures in the USA. International Journal of Behavioural Accounting and Finance, 1 4: 335-348. doi:10.1504/IJBAF.2010.032846
Akhtar, Shumi and Oliver, Barry (2009) Determinants of capital structure for Japanese multinational and domestic corporations. International Review of Finance, 9 1-2: 1-26. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2443.2009.01083.x
Brailsford, Tim, Heaney, Richard and Oliver, Barry (2005) Use of derivatives in public sector organisations. Accounting and Finance, 45 1: 43-66. doi:10.1111/j.1467-629X.2004.00120.x
Brooke, Jesse and Oliver, Barry (2005) The source of abnormal returns from strategic alliance announcements. Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 13 2: 145-161. doi:10.1016/j.pacfin.2004.07.003
Benson, Karen and Oliver, Barry (2004) Management motivation for using financial derivatives in Australia. Australian Journal of Management, 29 2: 225-242. doi:10.1177/031289620402900205
Fleming, Grant, Oliver, Barry and Skourakis, Steve (2003) The valuation discount of multi-segment firms in Australia. Accounting and Finance, 43 2: 167-185. doi:10.1111/1467-629X.00087
Brailsford, T. J., Heaney, R. A. and Oliver, B. R. (2003) Practices and attitudes to derivatives use in Australian commonwealth organisations. Australian Journal of Public Administration, 62 2: 87-100. doi:10.1111/1467-8497.00328
Brailsford, T. J., Oliver, B.R. and Pua, S.L.H. (2002) On the relation between ownership structure and capital structure. Accounting and Finance, 42 1: 1-26. doi:10.1111/1467-629X.00001
Oliver, Barry R. (1999) The legality of derivative contracts entered into by Commonwealth organisations. Accounting, Accountability and Performance, 5 1: 43-53.
Faff, R. W. and Oliver, B. R. (1998) Consumption versus market betas of Australian industry portfolios. Applied Economics Letters, 5 8: 513-517.
Oliver, Barry and Tahir, M. (1997) A note on the expiration day price effect in the Australian 90 day bank accepted bills market. Pacific Accounting Review, 9 1: 43-50. doi:10.1108/eb037919
Oliver, Barry (1996) An examination of volatility smiles in the Australian options market. Accounting Research Journal, 9 2: 30-37.
Oliver, Barry (1994) Ex-dividend day behaviour of call option prices in the Australian options market. Accounting Research Journal, 7 1: 9-19.
Oliver, Barry and Psaros, Jim (1985) Audit reports: Does AUP3 provide adequate guidance?. The Chartered Accountant, 56 8: ---.