Janusz Brzeszczynski
janusz brzeszczynski

Prof Janusz Brzeszczynski

  

Biography

Professor Janusz Brzeszczyński is Professor of Finance in The Business School at the Edinburgh Napier University (ENU) and Head of Department of Accounting and Finance.

Before joining the ENU, Professor Janusz Brzeszczyński worked as Professor in Energy, Sustainability and Society in Aberdeen Business School (ABS) at Robert Gordon University, as Professor of Finance in Newcastle Business School (NBS) at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne and as Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and also held a number of visiting positions at the universities abroad in the USA, Germany, Poland and Switzerland.

He was awarded Fulbright scholarship (Senior Grant) at the Arizona State University in the USA, Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers at the University of Münster in Germany, ESKAS federal scholarship at the Swiss Institute of Banking of Finance at the University of St.Gallen in Switzerland and DAAD research scholarship at the Kiel University in Germany.

Professor Janusz Brzeszczyński published in such top journals as: “Journal of International Money and Finance”, “Journal of Comparative Economics”, “Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money”, “Journal of Business Ethics”, “European Journal of Finance”, “International Review of Economics and Finance”, “Applied Financial Economics“, “International Review of Financial Analysis”, “Journal of Pension Economics and Finance”, “Emerging Markets Finance and Trade”, “International Journal of Finance and Economics”, “Finance Research Letters”, “Expert Systems with Applications”, “Journal of Financial Stability”, “Energy Journal” and “Energy Economics”, among others.

He acted also as a consultant for Reuters and did research projects for various banks and other financial institutions.

Professor Janusz Brzeszczyński served on the Editorial Board of the “Emerging Markets Finance and Trade” journal and he is currently a Senior Editor at the "International Journal of Emerging Markets" and an Associate Editor at the “Finance Research Letters” journal.

Professor Janusz Brzeszczyński was invited to present his research at such financial institutions as BlackRock in San Francisco, RiskLab in Munich or National Bank of Poland (NBP) in Warsaw and at the research seminars at top research universities such as the University of California San Diego (UCSD), IESE Business School in Barcelona, University of San Francisco (USF) and Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.

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Energy in turmoil: Industry resilience to uncertainty during the global energy crisis

Journal Article
Szczygielski, J. J., Charteris, A., Obojska, L., & Brzeszczyński, J. (2025)
Energy in turmoil: Industry resilience to uncertainty during the global energy crisis. Applied Energy, 389, Article 125351. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2025.125351
We investigate the resilience of global industry groups to energy price uncertainty (ENPU) during the global energy crisis. Diversified financials reflect the greatest return ...

What does energy price uncertainty reveal about the global energy crisis?

Journal Article
Szczygielski, J. J., Charteris, A., Obojska, L., & Brzeszczyński, J. (online)
What does energy price uncertainty reveal about the global energy crisis?. International Review of Financial Analysis, Article 103838. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2024.103838
We construct a Google search-based measure of energy price uncertainty (ENPU) that reflects oil, coal and natural gas price uncertainty. Using this index, we analyse the evolu...

Sustainability, energy finance and the role of central banks: A review of current insights and future research directions

Journal Article
Marcinkowska, M., Brzeszczyński, J., Charteris, A., Gajdka, J., Obojska, L., & Szczygielski, J. J. (2025)
Sustainability, energy finance and the role of central banks: A review of current insights and future research directions. Energy Economics, 144, Article 108084. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2024.108084
The importance of energy finance in sustainable development and particularly within the sustainable finance strand has visibly increased in recent years. In this review articl...

Recession fears and stock markets: An application of directional wavelet coherence and a machine learning-based economic agent-determined Google fear index

Journal Article
Szczygielski, J. J., Charteris, A., Obojska, L., & Brzeszczyński, J. (2024)
Recession fears and stock markets: An application of directional wavelet coherence and a machine learning-based economic agent-determined Google fear index. Research in International Business and Finance, 72(Part A), Article 102448. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2024.102448
Recession fears play a pivotal role in investment decision making and policy development aimed at reducing the likelihood of a recession and managing its impact. Using machine...

Capturing the timing of crisis evolution: A machine learning and directional wavelet coherence approach to isolating event-specific uncertainty using Google searches with an application to COVID-19

Journal Article
Szczygielski, J. J., Charteris, A., Obojska, L., & Brzeszczyński, J. (2024)
Capturing the timing of crisis evolution: A machine learning and directional wavelet coherence approach to isolating event-specific uncertainty using Google searches with an application to COVID-19. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 205, Article 123319. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2024.123319
The phases of a crisis are critical to understanding its evolution. We construct an economic agent-determined machine learning-based Google search index that associates search...

Do investment fund managers behave rationally in the light of central bank communication? Survey evidence from Poland

Journal Article
Wolski, R., Bolek, M., Gajdka, J., Brzeszczyński, J., & Kutan, A. M. (2023)
Do investment fund managers behave rationally in the light of central bank communication? Survey evidence from Poland. Qualitative Research in Financial Markets, 15(5), 757-794. https://doi.org/10.1108/qrfm-07-2021-0124
Purpose This study aims to answer the question whether investment funds managers exhibit behavioural biases in their investment decisions. Furthermore, it investigates if fund...

Google search trends and stock markets: Sentiment, attention or uncertainty?

Journal Article
Szczygielski, J. J., Charteris, A., Bwanya, P. R., & Brzeszczyński, J. (2024)
Google search trends and stock markets: Sentiment, attention or uncertainty?. International Review of Financial Analysis, 91, Article 102549. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2023.102549
Keyword-based measures purporting to reflect investor sentiment, attention or uncertainty have increasingly been used to model stock market behaviour. We investigate and shed ...

Monetary policy and investors' behaviour

Book Chapter
Brzeszczynski, J., Gajdka, J., Kutan, A., & Schabek, T. (2023)
Monetary policy and investors' behaviour. In Understanding the Polish Capital Market (59-78). Routledge
The purpose of the research presented in this chapter is the verification of the question whether the release of new information by the National Bank of Poland (NBP) about its...

Which COVID-19 information really impacts stock markets?

Journal Article
Szczygielski, J. J., Charteris, A., Bwanya, P. R., & Brzeszczyński, J. (2023)
Which COVID-19 information really impacts stock markets?. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 84, Article 101592. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intfin.2022.101592
Information about the COVID-19 pandemic abounds, but which COVID-19 data actually impacts stock prices? We investigate which measures of COVID-19 matter most by applying elast...

Rethinking financial contagion: Information transmission mechanism during the COVID-19 pandemic

Journal Article
Yarovaya, L., Brzeszczyński, J., Goodell, J. W., Lucey, B., & Lau, C. K. M. (2022)
Rethinking financial contagion: Information transmission mechanism during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 79, Article 101589. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intfin.2022.101589
Rapidly growing numbers of empirical papers assessing the financial effects of COVID-19 pandemic triggered an urgent need for a study summarising the existing knowledge of con...

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