Professor Colin Mayer FBA

Financial economics; corporate finance, corporate governance, regulation, taxation, and international comparisons of financial systems; the role of the corporation in contemporary society
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2013
Subjects
Business and management, Economics

Summary

Colin Mayer is the Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies at the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. He is a Professorial Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford and an Honorary Fellow of Oriel College and St Anne's College, Oxford. He is a member of the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal, the UK Government Natural Capital Committee and the International Advisory Board of the Securities and Exchange Board of India. Colin Mayer was the first professor at the Saïd Business School in 1994 and the Peter Moores Dean of the Business School between 2006 and 2011. He was a Harkness Fellow at Harvard University, a Houblon-Norman Fellow at the Bank of England and the first Leo Goldschmidt Visiting Professor of Corporate Governance at the Solvay Business School, ULB. Colin Mayer researches in the fields of corporate finance, governance, regulation, taxation and the role of the corporation in contemporary society. He works on the nature of the corporation, the regulation of financial markets and institutions, and their effects on the financing and control of corporations. The common theme of his research is the international comparative nature of corporate finance and corporate governance and the relation of these to financial markets.

Current post

Saïd Business School, University of Oxford Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies

Wadham College, University of Oxford Fellow

Publications

Firm Commitment: Why the Corporation is Failing Us and How to Restore Trust In It

Colin Mayer - Published in 2013 by Oxford University Press

Regulatory Sanctions and Reputational Damage in Financial Markets

Colin Mayer - Published in 2016 by Journal of Finance and Quantitative Analysis

The Ownership of Japanese Corporations in the 20th Century

Colin Mayer - Published in 2014 by Review of Financial Studies, 27

The Life Cycle of Family Ownership: International Evidence

Colin Mayer - Published in 2012 by Review of Financial Studies, 25

Ownership: Evolution and Regulation

Colin Mayer - Published in 2009 by Review of Financial Studies, 22

Returns to Shareholder Activism: Evidence from a Clinical Study of the Hermes UK Focus Fund

Colin Mayer - Published in 2009 by Review of Financial Studies, 22

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Varieties of capitalism; political economy of macroeconomics; advanced capitalism and democratic politics; political economy of crime, punishment and inequality

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Applied economics: development economics, environmental and energy economics, microeconomics of growth, political economy, public economics, labor economics

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Professor Hugh Willmott FBA

Critical studies of management; applications of social theory to management philosophies and practices; organizational change and control

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