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Professor Ranadeva Jayasekera

Professor in Accounting (Trinity Business School)
ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH

 jayasekr@tcd.ie

 3531896 3758


Biography

Ranadeva Jayasekera holds a first-class honours BA (Mathematics and Physics) from the University of Colombo and a PhD in Accounting & Finance from the University of Cambridge. He is a professionally qualified accountant with the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and has served at a senor capacity in three (Deloitte, Ernst & Young, PwC) of the Big Four global accounting firms in London, Auckland and Colombo. He is currently an Associate Professor in Accounting and Finance at the Trinity Business School and an Associate in Finance at the Judge Business School, Cambridge, and is a former faculty member of the University of Southampton (UK). He also serves as a Visiting Professor at Poznan Economics University (Poland) and Linkoping University (Sweden). He is widely published with over 25 publications in highly ranked international refereed journals on the broader role played by financial markets and economic agents on the creation of information asymmetry that effects positive and negative outcomes to the society. He has been awarded research grants in excess of £150,000 and is currently conducting research with the Asian Development Bank in the areas of Environment, Social and Governance (ESG)/climate change. Ranadeva has lectured at undergraduate, postgraduate and executive education levels, and has won numerous awards (e.g., British Chevening Scholarship, Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Award, Trinity Research excellence award, Trinity teaching excellence award) for scholarly research and teaching. He contributes to the curriculum revision process of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka and is an officer of the British Accounting & Finance Association, Financial Markets and Institutions Special Interest Group.

Research Tags

  behavioural Finance   Corporate finance

Research Projects

 Go Green or Stay Black: Bond Market Dynamics in Asia
 "Earnings Management and stock performance
 Pump Priming grant
 Constraints to the SME sector in the UK
 The study of the effects of new regulations on the banking system in UK and how mathematical models need to be adapted

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Representations

Details Date
Visiting Professor of Finance - Poznan University of Economics
Jayasekera, Ranadeva and Soobaroyen, Teerooven (2012) The interplay between NGO accountability and 'development': A case study. AOS Workshop on Accounting, Non-governmental Organizations and Civil Society, London, GB
Jayasekera, L.I.R. (2012), Comparison of Efficiency Characteristics of the European banking sector during the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-2012; 4th International Finance and Banking Society conference, Valencia , Spain
Jayasekera, L.I.R. (2012), -"Analysis of the Role of General Electric in the US Airline Industry; A Possible Capital Market Mutation in Response to the Anomalies of Chapter 11?", Multinational Finance Conference, Krakow, Poland
Jayasekera, L.I.R. (2010) "Real options application to liquidity risk management", Deloitte & Touche, London
Jayasekera, L.I.R. (2011) Small can be Vulnerable : Failure Prediction of unlisted firms SIBR conference; Bangkok; Thailand
Jayasekera, L.I.R. (2012), "Financial Flexibility and the Theory of Capital Structure", World Finance Conference, Rio de Janeiro,Brazil
Delivered an executive education customised training course for Kuwait Investment Authority 2014
University of Aberdeen (Postgraduate, 2021 to date), SOAS University of London (Postgraduate, 2021 to date) University of Greenwich (undergraduate, masters International and MBA programmes). University of Mauritius (from 2106)

Languages

Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
English Fluent Fluent Fluent
Singhalese Fluent Fluent Fluent

Memberships

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details Date From Date To
Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (ACMA)
Associate Member of the Chartered Global Management Accountant (AICPA)
Dissanaike, G., Jayasekera, R. and Meeks, G, Why do unsuccessful companies survive? US airlines, aircraft leasing and GE, 2000-­‐2008, Business History Review , 2021, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Lindman, S., Tuvhag, T., Jayasekera, R., Uddin, G.S. and Troster, V., Market Impact on financial market integration: Cross-quantilogram analysis of the global impact of the euro, Journal of Empirical Finance, 2019, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Ranadeva Jayasekera, Prediction of company failure: Past, present and promising directions for the future, International Review of Financial Analysis, Volume 55, 2018, p196 - 208, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Dissanaike, G., Faasse, J. and Jayasekera, R., , What do equity issuances signal? A study of equity issuances in the UK before and during the financial crisis, Journal of International Money and Finance, (49), 2014, p358-385 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Stelios Bekiros, Amanda Dahlström, Oskar Ege, Ranadeva Jayasekera ,Gazi Salah Uddin , A Tale Of Two Shocks: The Dynamics Of International Real Estate Markets, International Journal Of Finance & Economics, 2019 Journal Article, International Journal of Finance and Economics, 2019, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Ranadeva Jayasekera, The Dance of Illusive Perception, 2021, Working Paper, PRESENTED  TARA - Full Text  URL
Ranadeva Jayasekera, The dance of illusive Perception, 2020, Working Paper, PRESENTED
Christoffer Wadström, Emanuel Wittberg, Gazi Salah Uddin, Ranadeva Jayasekera, Role Of Renewable Energy On Industrial Output In Canada, Energy Economics, 2019, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Choudhry, T., Jayasekera, R. and Kling, G.., "The global financial crisis and the European single market: The end of integration?.", Journal of International Money and Finance , 49, 2014, p191 - 196, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Choudhry, Taufiq, and Ranadeva Jayasekera, Comparison of efficiency characteristics between the banking sectors of US and UK during the global financial crisis of 2007-2011, International Review of Financial Analysis, 25 , 2012, p106 - 116, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
  

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Dissanaike, G., Jayasekera, R. and Meeks, G, (2021), 'GE's grip on airlines' [pdf], UK, University of Cambridge, Notes: [https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/insight/2021/ges-grip-on-airlines/], Impact Case Study, PUBLISHED
Ranadeva Jayasekera, efficiency as a source of wealth of nations, Keynote speach, 2015 in Wroclaw Poland, 2015, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Ranadeva Jayasekera, Commercial Applications of Ratio Analysis, University of Cambridge, 2020, Notes: [Guest Lecture on MFin Programme, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge (2020)], Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Ranadeva Jayasekera & Gerhard Kling, Theory of the Firm, University of Cambridge, 2014, Notes: [CERF Seminar, University of Cambridge (2014), Jayasekera, R., Kling, G.(2014),], Invited Talk, PUBLISHED

  

Awards and Honours

Award Date
Teaching Excellence Award 2017
Research Scholarship-University of Cambridge 2004-2006
Keynote speaker - "efficiency as a source of wealth of nations" Conference 2015 in Wroclaw Poland. 2015
Finalist - Finance Student of the Year Award -Institute of Financial Accountants (IFA), UK 2007
British Chevening Shell Centenary Scholarship 2003
Ceylon Chemical Industries Gold Medal Award-University of Colombo 2002
BSc (Hons) Mathematics and Physics (First Class) 1997

Research Interests

Description Of Research Interests

My research, which is aligned with international, national and Trinity strategic priorities, addresses the critical question of the role played by financial markets and economic agents on the creation of information asymmetry that effects positive and negative outcomes to the society. In particular, my recent research that draws together the disciplines of accounting, finance and law and aims to provide an explanation as to why in certain instances unsuccessful companies survive for prolong periods, defying the doctrine of economic natural selection. The paper appeared in the Business History Review, a very well regarded, Harvard edited ABS 4 ranked journal. I was a senior author in this paper. I also published a string of ABS 3 papers on the impact of the global financial Crisis on market efficiency. These papers help to gain an understanding on the price discovery process during volatile periods, highlighting arbitrage oppertunities while outlining policy implications. Especially my work on European single markets and market integration has become very relevant with the advent of Brexit. I have published 18 ABS, 3-star publications, 1 ABS 4 to date, including a sole authored paper. My work has received over 260 citations in respected journals and currently score a value of 11 and 12 in the h-index and the i-10 index respectively . I was recently appointed as an honorary associate in Finance at the Judge Business School, university of Cambridge as an acknowledgement of my contributions to the field. Going forward, extending my ABS 4 paper on the perverse influence of dominant firms, my follow-up work feeds to the recent studies from Harvard University on the 'Age of Surveillance Capitalism'. Another promising area is to apply a model that is based on an academically rigours methodology to measure wealth perception which I (along with my co-authors) developed recently. I am also looking at building on the ABS 3 publications I hold in the clean energy/ESG space, and am looking at developing new financial instruments to enable equitable risk shearing to enable flow of capital to the clean energy sector.