Dr. Sailesh Tanna

Sailesh Tanna holds a BSc (First Class) and MSc from the London School of Economics, and a PhD in Economics from London South Bank University (formally Polytechnic).  He is presently Principal Lecturer within the Business School at Coventry University, having previously held research positions at South Bank Polytechnic, Imperial College, University of Warwick, and as Lecturer in Economics at the University of Leicester.  At Coventry University, he has taught various undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the economics, business and finance disciplines and has been instrumental in the development of postgraduate degrees in Finance and Banking.  He has previously researched in the area of macroeconomic modelling and policy analysis and international economics, but his main research interests are now primarily in banking and finance.   He also actively supervises PhD students, and most of his former PhD students now hold academic positions in the UK or overseas.

Since 2005, he has been a visiting Research Fellow at Financial Engineering Laboratory of the Technical University of Crete, Greece.  He has served as a referee and editorial board member of several academic journals.  He is also a Scientific Committee member of the Financial and Engineering Banking Society.

• Nnadi, M., and Tanna, S. (2014) 'Post Acquisitions Profitability of Banks: A Comparison of Domestic and Cross Border Acquisitions in the European Union' Global Business and Economics Review 16 (3), 310-331.  
• Nnadi, M., and Tanna, S. (2013) 'Analysis of Cross-border and Domestic Mega-M&As of European Commercial Banks'. Managerial Finance 39 (9), 848-862. 
• Tanna, S., and Urio, H. (2012) 'Consolidation and Performance in the EU Banking Industry: A Survey'. In Financial Services: Efficiency and Risk Management. Ed. by Fethi, M., Gaganis, C., Pasiouras, F., and Zopounidis, C. New York: Nova. 1-40. 
• Pasiouras, F., Tanna, S., and Gaganis, C. (2011) 'What drives acquisitions in the EU Banking Industry? The role of Bank Regulation and Supervision Framework, Bank Specific and Market Specific Factors'. Financial Markets, Institutions and Instruments 20 (2), 29-77. 
• Tanna, S., Pasiouras, F., and Nnadi, M. (2011) 'The Effect of Board Size and Composition on the Efficiency of UK Banks'. International Journal of the Economics of Business 18 (3), 441-462. 
• Pasiouras, F., Tanna, S., and Zopounidis, C. (2009) 'The Impact of Banking Regulations on Banks' Cost and Profit Efficiency: Cross-country Evidence'. International Review of Financial Analysis 18 (5), 294-302. 
• Pasiouras, F., Tanna, S., and Zopounidis, C. (2007) 'The Identification of Acquisition Targets in the EU Banking Industry: An Application of Multicriteria Approaches'. International Review of Financial Analysis 16, 262-281. 
• Pasiouras, F. and Tanna, S. (2010) 'The Prediction of Bank Acquisition Targets with Discriminant and Logit analysis: Methodological Issues and Empirical Evidence'. Research in International Business and Finance 24 (1), 39-61. 
• Pasiouras, F., Tanna, S., and Zopounidis, C. (2005) Application of Quantitative Techniques for the Prediction of Bank Acquisition Targets. World Scientific Publishing Company. 
• Tanna, S., and Urio, H. (2012) 'Consolidation and Performance in the EU Banking Industry: A Survey'. In Global Trends in the Efficiency and Risk Management of Financial Services and the Financial Crisis. Ed. by Fethi, M., Gaganis, C., Pasiouras, F., and Zopounidis, C. Nova, 1-40. 
• Tanna, S. (2009) 'The impact of FDI on Total Factor Productivity Growth: International evidence from the Banking industry'. Managerial Finance 35 (3), 297-311. 
• Tanna, S., and Nnadi, M. (2014) 'Post Acquisitions Profitability of Banks: A Comparison of Domestic and Cross Border Acquisitions in the European Union'. Global Business and Economics Review (in press).  
• Nnadi, M., and Tanna, S. (2013) 'Analysis of Cross-border and Domestic Mega-M&As of European Commercial Banks'. Managerial Finance 39 (9), 848-862. 

• Banking Sector M&As, Regulations and Efficiency: Awarded £3000 from Coventry University Applied Research Fellowship Scheme (2006-08) to develop and strengthen research collaboration with the Financial Engineering Laboratory of the Technical University of Crete, where I am now associated as a Research Fellow. 

• Banking Sector Consolidation and Performance: Awarded £6000 from Coventry University Research Sabbatical Fellowship Scheme (2012) to pursue joint research with Dr. Matthias Nnadi, Cranfield University.