BCU teaching across undergraduate and postgraduate finance programmes, including BSc Accounting and Finance, MSc Accounting and Finance, BSc Business Finance, BSc Finance and Investment and MSc Finance and Investment. Modules taught or led include:
- Strategic Risk Management (Level 7)
- Applied Financial Econometrics / AI-Powered Financial Data Analysis (Level 7)
- Financial Derivatives (Level 7)
- Banking, Financial Markets and Institutions (Level 6)
- Corporate Finance, Risk Management, Financial Analysis for Investment, International Accounting and Finance Issues (Level 5)
His current research focuses on how firm managers/CEOs and politically and socially connected investors respond to economic and policy shocks, with particular attention to the information content of insider trades. He also studies the role of executive traits and social networks in corporate decisions, emissions and climate-related financial risks. His empirical work applies advanced panel econometrics, event studies and machine-learning methods.
He supervises PhD research in accounting and finance at BCU, including doctoral supervision responsibilities. He has also supervised postgraduate and undergraduate dissertations, including 27 postgraduate dissertations at Leeds Beckett University, and contributes to doctoral review and assessment.
Selected peer-reviewed publications and accepted articles:
- Das, B. C. (2025). Opportunistic Insider Trading during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Financial Markets, Institutions & Instruments. DOI
- Das, B. C., Hasan, F. and Sutradhar, S. R. (2024). The impact of economic policy uncertainty and inflation risk on corporate cash holdings. Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting. DOI
- Das, B. C., Ofosu-Hene, E., Danso, A., Adu-Ameyaw, E. and Uddin, M. (2026). Foreign competition and corporate cash holdings. International Journal of Managerial Finance, 22(2), 259–285. DOI
- Das, B. C., Hasan, F. and Sutradhar, S. R. (2026). The effect of inflation and the failure of Silicon Valley Bank on shareholder wealth. Review of Financial Economics. DOI
- Das, B. C., Hasan, F., Sutradhar, S. R. and Shafique, S. (2023). Ukraine–Russia Conflict and Stock Market Reactions in Europe. Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management.
- Hasan, F., Shafique, S., Das, B. C. and Shome, R. (2022). R&D intensity and firms’ dividend policy: evidence from BRICS countries. Journal of Applied Accounting Research, 23(4), 846–862.
- Das, B. C., Saha, K. and Sutradhar, S. R. (2026). Corporate GHG Emissions and Financial Performances: The Moderating Role of CEO Overconfidence. International Journal of Managerial Finance (in press).
Selected conference presentations:
- British Academy of Management (BAM) conferences and doctoral symposia (2022 and 2023)
- International Symposium in Finance, Crete, Greece (2022)
- European Trade Study Group conference, University of Surrey (2023)
- World Symposium on Sustainability Leadership, University of Salamanca, Spain (2025)
- Leeds University Business School doctoral conference and joint doctoral seminar series
Before moving into academia, he was a Principal Officer at a commercial bank in Bangladesh (2012–2014), working across credit and treasury divisions. His industry experience includes credit risk management, money-market activities, foreign exchange and fixed-income securities. He draws on these experiences in teaching finance and risk management.
