Alex Preda

Alex Preda is Professor of Accounting, Accountability and Financial Management at King's Business School. He holds a PhD from the University of Bielefeld. Prior to joining King’s College London he worked at the University of Edinburgh and at the University of Konstanz.

Alex's principal research activities relate to global financial markets, and his research interests include: strategic behaviour in financial markets; decision-making and cognitive processes in electronic anonymous markets; market automation and trading technologies; valuation processes in markets; the role of communication in decision-making processes; the public understanding of finance; the governance of global finance.

Alex has recently conducted an ESRC-funded research project, Technology, Action and Cognition in Online Anonymous Markets: A Sociological Study of Non-institutional Traders and is investigator on Evaluation Practices in Financial Markets, a five-year project funded by the European Research Council, working together with colleagues from the University of Edinburgh and the London School of Economics.

Publications

• The economy of interactions. Comment on 'The functions of social interaction in the knowledge-creative economy: Between co-presence and ICT-mediated social relations,' by Marianna d'Ovidio and Alessandro Gandini 01 January 2019
• Groups, social processes and decision making in finance 04 November 2019
• Postmodernism in Sociology 26 March 2015
• Subcortical brain volume abnormalities in 2028 individuals with schizophrenia and 2540 healthy controls via the ENIGMA consortium 01 April 2016
• Does a scopic regime erode the disposition effect?: Evidence from a social trading platform 01 October 2018
• Does a scopic regime produce conformism? Herding behavior among trade leaders on social trading platforms 01 January 2018
• The sciences of finance, their boundaries, their values 01 January 2017
• Noise: Living and Trading in Electronic Finance 01 March 2017
• Tracking the numbers: across accounting and finance, organizations and markets 01 July 2009
• Information, Knowledge and Economic Life: An Introduction to the Sociology of Markets 01 January 2009