Fiontar

Biographical Details:

Ciarán mac an Bhaird is currently lecturer of Business and Management at Fiontar, Dublin City University. He holds a PhD from Trinity College Dublin, as well as B. Comm. and L.L.B. degrees from the National University of Ireland, Galway, and an M.Sc. in Finance from UCD. Tá Ciarán Mac an Bhaird ina léachtóir le Gnó agus Bainistíocht in Fiontar, Ollscoil Chathair Bhaile Átha Cliath. Tá PhD bainte amach aige i gColáiste na Tríonóide chomh maith le B.Comm. agus céim L.L.B. ó Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh agus M.Sc. san airgeadas ó Ollscoil na hÉireann Baile Átha Cliath. Déanann Ciarán taighde ar ghnéithe ar nós struchtúr agus bainistíocht airgeadais i bhfiontair beaga agus meánmhéide, fiontraíocht, forbairt réigiúnach, agus polasaithe tacaíochta forálacha do SMEs.

Research Interests:

His research interests include capital structure and financial management issues in medium sized enterprises; serial entrepreneurship; angel investing; financing young high-tech firms, particularly cloud computing firms (SAAS); regional development, and public policy related to provision of support to SMEs.

Selected Peer Reviewed Journals

• Mac an Bhaird, C. 2013. Demand for debt and equity before and after the financial crisis. Research In International Business And Finance, 28, 1, pp105-117.
• Mac an Bhaird, C. and Lucey, B. 2011. An empirical investigation of the financial growth life cycle. Journal Of Small Business And Enterprise Development, 18, 4, pp715-731.
• Gurdgiev, C., Lucey, B., Mac an Bhaird, C., Roche-Kelly, L. 2011. The Irish economy: Three strikes and you're out?. Panoeconomicus, 58, 1, pp19-41.
• Mac an Bhaird, C. and Lucey, B. 2010. Determinants of Capital Structure in Irish SMEs. Small Business Economics, 35, 3, pp357-375.
• Mac an Bhaird, C. 2010. The Modigliani-Miller proposition after fifty years and its relation to entrepreneurial finance. Strategic Change, 19, 1-2, pp9-28.

Selected Books

• Mac an Bhaird, C. Resourcing Small and Medium Sized Enterprises, Springer-Verlag HD, 2010.

Selected Chapters

• Mac an Bhaird, Ciarán. 2010. Ireland and the global economic crisis. After the crisis: Rethinking finance

• Mac an Bhaird, C., Demand for debt and equity before and after the financial crisis, Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship 34rd Conference, 08-NOV-11 - 10-NOV-11, Sheffield
• Mac an Bhaird, C., Lynn, T., John A., Seeding the cloud: Funding SMEs in the application software sector, Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship 34rd Conference, 08-NOV-11 - 10-NOV-11, Sheffield
• Mac an Bhaird, C., Sustainable Financing for a sustainable rural?, 9th Rural Entrepreneurship Conference, 23-JUN-11 - 24-JUN-11, Nottingham Conference Centre
• Mac an Bhaird, C., Firm Financing: A Resource Based View, Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship 33rd Conference, 07-NOV-10 - 09-NOV-10, London
• Mac an Bhaird, C., Lucey, B., Kearney C., Culture's Influences: An investigation of inter-country differences in capital structure, Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship 33rd Conference, 07-NOV-10 - 09-NOV-10, London
• Mac an Bhaird, C., Lucey, B., Kearney C., Cultural influences on SME financing, 7th Infiniti Conference on International Finance, 08-JUN-09 - 09-JUN-09, Trinity College Dublin
• Mac an Bhaird, C. and Lucey, B., Financing preferences in SMEs: Consideration of firm owners' strategic objectives, Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship 31st Conference, 05-NOV-08 - 07-NOV-08, Belfast
• Mac an Bhaird, C. and Lucey, B., A study of the impact of business goals, motivations and preferences on the capital structure decision in Irish medium sized firms, 6th INFINITI Conference on International Finance, 09-JUN-08 - 10-JUN-08, Trinity College, Dublin
• Mac an Bhaird, C. and Lucey, B., Determinants of the capital structure of SMEs: A seemingly unrelated regression approach, Midwest Finance Association 57th Meeting, 27-FEB-08 - 01-MAR-08, San Antonio Rivercenter, Texas
• Mac an Bhaird, C. and Lucey, B., The financial growth life cycle: An empirical examination of Irish SMEs, Midwest Finance Association 57th Meeting, 27-FEB-08 - 01-MAR-08, San Antonio Rivercenter, Texas
• Mac an Bhaird, C. and Lucey, B., The financial growth life cycle: An empirical examination of Irish SMEs, Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship 30th Conference, 07-NOV-07 - 09-NOV-07, Radisson SAS Hotel, Glasgow
• Mac an Bhaird, C. and Lucey, B., Determinants of the capital structure of SMEs: A seemingly unrelated regression approach, Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship 30th Conference, 07-NOV-07 - 09-NOV-07, Radisson SAS Hotel, Glasgow
• Mac an Bhaird, C. and Lucey, B., The financial growth life cycle: An empirical examination of Irish SMEs, 5th Infiniti Conference on International Finance, 11-JUN-07 - 12-JUN-07, Trinity College, Dublin
• Mac an Bhaird, C. and Lucey, B., An exploratory cross-sectional study on the capital structures of SMEs, 4th Infiniti Conference on International Finance, 12-JUN-06 - 13-JUN-06, Trinity College, Dublin
• Mac an Bhaird, C. and Lucey, B., Capital structure and the financing of SMEs: Empirical evidence from an Irish survey, Entrepreneurship: Occupational Choice and Financing, 06-JUN-06 - 07-JUN-06, National Agency for Enterprise and Construction, Copenhagen
• Mac an Bhaird, C. and Lucey, B., The capital structure of Irish small and medium sized enterprises: An exploratory study, Academy of Entrepreneurial Finance, 19-APR-06 - 21-APR-06, Sheraton Pasadena, Pasadena, California
• Mac an Bhaird, C. and Lucey, B., An exploratory cross-sectional study on the capital structures of Irish SMEs, International Comparisons in the Financing of SMEs in Developed Countries, 04-APR-06 - 05-APR-06, Centre for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises, Warwick Business School