Vasiliki Athanasakou joined Saint Mary's University in 2018. She holds an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Accounting and Finance from Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS), University of Manchester. After finishing her post-doc at AMBS, Vasiliki joined the Department of Accounting of the London School of Economics. Her research started from investigating various facets of the earnings games in capital markets and gradually moved to unravelling the power of words in corporate reports. Her research lies in the intersection of accounting, policy making, and capital markets and is largely motivated by financial reporting policy and practice. Her current work focuses on unravelling economic effects of various aspects of corporate reporting (strategy, sustainability, risk, and governance). Vasiliki is an ACCA affiliate and has worked in the audit assurance of Deloitte and Touche (Athens). She has taught doctoral, MBA, executive, MSc, and undergraduate cohorts topics in financial accounting, financial reporting, accounting theory, and security analysis and valuation.
- Afzali Mansoor, Vasiliki Athanasakou and Siri Terjesen. 2024. Lead Independent Directors and Internal Information Environment. Corporate Governance: An International Review. https://doi.org/10.1111/corg.12582
- Athanasakou Vasiliki and Martin Walker 2023. A Measure of Management’s Withholding of Bad News. European Accounting Review. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638180.2023.2268677
- Athanasakou Vasiliki, Abdlmutaleb Boshanna, Natalia Kochetova, Georgios Voulgaris, 2023, Strategy and business model disclosures in annual reports: The role of legal regime, The British Accounting Review Review, 101190, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2023.101190
- Athanasakou Vasiliki, Daniel Ferreira and Lisa Goh. 2022. Changes in CEO Stock Option Grants: A Look at the Numbers. Journal of Corporate Finance 75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2022.102226
- Athanasakou Vasiliki, Florian Eugster, Thomas Schleicher and Martin Walker. 2020. Annual Report Narratives and the Cost of Equity Capital: U.K. Evidence of a U-shaped Relation, European Accounting Review 29 (1), 27-54, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638180.2019.1707102
- Athanasakou Vasiliki and George Athanassakos. 2019. Earnings Quality and Book-to-market in the Cross section of Expected Returns. Multinational Finance Journal, 23(3/4), 169-210, (2019).
- Mahmoud El-Haj, Paul Rayson, Steven Young, Andrew Moore, Martin Walker, Thomas Schleicher, and Vasiliki Athanasakou. 2016. Learning tone and attribution for financial text mining. Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings-With ISBN/ISSN: 9782951740891. Proceedings of LREC 2016, Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. European Language Resources Association (ELRA), pp. 1820-1825. LREC 2016 Proceedings
- Athanasakou, Vasiliki and Ana Simpson. 2016. Investor Attention to Rounding as a Salient Forecast Feature. International Journal of Forecasting 31, 1212-1233. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2016.02.011
- Athanasakou Vasiliki and Khaled Hussainey. 2014. The Perceived Credibility of Forward-Looking Performance Disclosures. Accounting and Business Research 44 (3), 227-259 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1080/00014788.2013.867403
- Athanasakou Vasiliki, Norman C. Strong and Martin Walker. 2011. The Market Reward for Achieving Analyst Expectations: Does Managing Expectations or Earnings Matter?. Journal of Business Finance and Accounting 38, 58-94 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5957.2010.02219.x
- Athanasakou Vasiliki, Norman C. Strong and Martin Walker. 2010. The Association Between Classificatory and Inter-temporal Smoothing: Evidence from the UK’s FRS3. International Journal of Accounting 45, 224-257 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intacc.2010.04.002
- Athanasakou, Vasiliki. 2010. Discussion of ‘The Impact of Dual Class Structure on Earnings Management Activities’. Journal of Business, Finance and Accounting 37, 486–494 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5957.2010.02204.x
- Athanasakou, Vasiliki, Norman C. Strong and Martin Walker. 2009. Earnings Management or Forecast Guidance to Meet Analyst Expectations? Accounting and Business Research 39 (1), 3–35 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1080/00014788.2009.9663347
- Athanasakou Vasiliki, Norman C. Strong and Martin Walker. 2007. Classificatory Income Smoothing: The Impact of a Change in Regime of Reporting Financial Performance. Journal of Accounting and Public Policy 26(4), 387–435 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccpubpol.2007.05.002
- Athanasakou Vasiliki and Ana Simpson. 2018. How much attention do investors pay to rounding in earnings forecasts? with Ana Simpson. London School of Economics Business Review.
- Athanasakou, Vasiliki, Daniel Ferreira and Lisa Goh. 2017. Changes in CEO Stock Option Grants: A look at the Numbers (with Daniel Ferreira and Lisa Goh). Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation (https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2017/11/10/changes-in-ceo-stock-option-grants-a-look-at-the-numbers/
- Athanasakou, Vasiliki, Young-Soo Choi, Steven Lin , Steven Young and Martin Walker. 2008. Understanding the earnings reporting practices of UK firms and their interactions with analysts’ earnings forecasts. Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales Centre for Business Performance Briefing 2008.
- Sustainability Reporting and Management Withholding of Bad News, with A. Chalwati and S. Trabelsi,
- Athanasakou, Vasiliki, Martin Walker, Steven Young, Paulo Alves, Mahmoud El-Haj, and Paul Rayson. Mandatory Annual Report Descriptions of Business Model and Strategy, Investor Uncertainty and Disclosure Cascade Effects Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3212854.
- Athanasakou Vasiliki, Yasmine Chahed and Lisa Goh. From Shakespeare to Annual Reports: the Role of Corporate Reporting Agencies.
- Athanasakou, Vasiliki and Per Olsson. Earnings Quality and Corporate Governance.
- Athanasakou Vasiliki and Per Olsson. Managerial Discretion and Firm Fundamentals. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=27156366.
- Walker, Martin, Steven Young, Vasiliki Athanasakou, Paul Rayson, and Thomas Scheicher. Who’s the Fairest of Them All? A Comparison of Methods for Classifying Tone and Causal Reasoning in Earnings-Related Management Discourse . Available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3721976.
Voluntary disclosure, earnings management, capital markets based accounting research, financial reporting regulation, and corporate governance.
Ph.D. Accounting and Finance, Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester (UK)
MSc in Accounting and Finance, Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester (UK)
ACCA (Association of Certified Chartered Accountants)
BSc Business Administration (Major: Accounting and Finance), Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens (Greece)
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