Leonidas Barbopoulos

Leonidas Barbopoulos is a Professor of Finance and Head of the Accounting & Finance group at the University of Edinburgh Business School. He has held visiting positions at NYU Stern, University of Bergamo, Harvard Business School, Mason School of Business, Strome College of Business, Trinity College Dublin, and University of Vienna. His research spans corporate finance, behavioral finance, market microstructure, and monetary policy interactions.

• Education: BSc (University of Piraeus; LSE), MSc (University of Durham), D.Phil (University of Durham), PgCert (University of Durham)

His work focuses on dynamic games in corporate finance, merger economics, investor behavior, and climate-related financial innovations. Recent projects examine how macroeconomic conditions influence corporate control markets and informational asymmetries in financial systems.

Barbopoulos has received prestigious awards including the Southwestern Finance Association Best Paper Award in Corporate Finance and the Yuki Arai Faculty Research Prize at NYU. He serves as Associate Editor at the International Review of Financial Analysis and has been a fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy since 2013.

His collaborations extend across 12 similar academic profiles, with research fingerprints in 24 topics including mergers, wealth effects, investor behavior, and macroeconomic conditions. He currently leads a project addressing information asymmetry in merger negotiations through earnout financing.