Rate My Professor Kian Tan

Tan’s research focuses on funds management, investments, and empirical corporate finance, particularly institutional investors such as mutual funds and hedge funds, alongside corporate finance and banking topics including executive compensation, ownership structure, capital structure, and climate transition risk. His publications appear in prestigious journals including Journal of Banking and Finance, International Review of Financial Analysis, Journal of Portfolio Management, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, and European Journal of Operational Research. Key works include “Do banks engage in earnings management? The role of dividends and institutional factors” (2024), “Complements or substitutes? The effect of ETFs on other managed funds” (2024), “The investment behavior of China-connected mutual funds in the pandemic: Information advantage through operational link” (2024), “Media uncertainty and risk-taking” (2024), “Climate transition risk in U.S. loan portfolios: are all banks the same?” (2023), “Shared experience in top management team and mutual fund performance” (2022), and “Political connections, tacit power and corporate misconduct” (2022). He has earned best paper awards at the New Zealand Finance Colloquium (2016), FIRN Annual Conference (2017), and UWA Accounting and Finance Research Forum (2018), as well as the Enhancing the First-Year Experience teaching award and Excellence in MBA Education award (both 2024). Tan regularly referees for leading journals like The Review of Financial Studies and has presented at American Finance Association and European Finance Association conferences, securing grants from AFAANZ and industry partners.