Assistant Professor of the Department of Financial Management and Control
URL Lecturer
Academic training
Master in Management. Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Interest Areas
Financial statement analysis
Valuation
Stock market efficiency
Accounting disclosure
IFRS
Biography
Petya Platikanova is Assistant Professor in the Department of Financial Management and Control at ESADE Business School. She is expected to defend her PhD in Management from the University Pompeu Fabra in the beginning of March 2010. Petya holds a Master of Science degree in Management from the University Pompeu Fabra and Master of Science degree in Political Science from Sofia University.
Before starting her PhD studies, Petya was researcher for five years in a policy advocacy institute, Institute for Market Economy (Sofia, Bulgaria). She was involved in the project management and research activities in a number of local and international projects, financed by international institutions such as USAID, Marshall Fund, Open Society Foundation, Freedom House, and National Endowment for Democracy. Among the main advocacy projects was the introduction of an institutionalized public-private policy dialogue though the implementation of regulatory impact assessment (i.e., an institutional procedure that allows all interested parties to express opinion over possible benefits and costs of the introduction of regulatory changes). She was personally involved in the cost-benefit assessment of legislative reforms in the Law on Competition and the Law on Public Procurement. During her policy advocacy period, Petya published her research findings in book chapters and numerous newspaper articles.
Petya conducts her research in the field of capital market research in accounting. This research field links finance and accounting in the effort to explain the relevance of accounting disclosure on financial markets. Her empirical work examines managerial incentives, value-relevance of financial disclosure and related stock market reaction. Recently, she published her research in the Financial Analysts Journal (CFA Institute). Her on-going research evaluate the market response to the introduction of international accounting standards (IFRS) in Europe (revise-and-resubmit in a referee journal) and the relevance of financial disclosure under alternative accounting regimes (so-called dual disclosure in financial statement analysis).
Petya is Ad hoc referee for the Financial Analysts Journal, The Financial Review, Journal of Banking and Finance, Euro-pean Accounting Review and Managerial Finance. She has also served as external evaluator for the Research Grant Council of Hong Kong, and as referee for the European conference of the Financial Management Association (2007), EFA (2009), and AAA (2009).
At present, Petya is teaching courses at the MSc in Finance (Financial Analysis and Reporting) and MBA level (Business Analysis and Valuation).
