Rate My Professor Mardy Chiah

Associate Professor Mardy Chiah is an Associate Professor of Finance in the Newcastle Business School at the University of Newcastle, where he joined in 2023. He holds a PhD in Finance and a Bachelor of Commerce Honours, both from Monash University. Prior to his current role, he served as Senior Lecturer in Finance at Swinburne University of Technology from January 2021 to February 2023 and as Lecturer in Finance there from January 2017 to December 2020. At the University of Newcastle, Chiah is the Deputy Head of School for Postgraduate Teaching and Learning and Director of International in the Newcastle Business School. He has successfully supervised seven PhD and Master by Research students to completion.

Chiah's primary research focuses on empirical asset pricing with an emphasis on stocks, including multifactor asset pricing models, stock market anomalies, and behavioral and risk-based explanations for patterns in stock prices. His academic interests extend to funds management, default risk analysis, socially responsible investments, market reactions to corporate actions, banking, and capital market research. He has authored over 20 articles in highly regarded ABDC A* and A ranked journals such as the Journal of Banking and Finance, Critical Finance Review, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, and International Review of Financial Analysis. Key publications include 'Has Idiosyncratic Volatility Increased? Not in Recent Times' (Critical Finance Review, 2023, co-authored with Philip Gharghori and Angel Zhong), 'Tuesday Blues and the day-of-the-week effect in stock returns' (Journal of Banking & Finance, 2021, co-authored with Angel Zhong), 'COVID-19 and oil price risk exposure' (Finance Research Letters, 2021, co-authored with Md Akhtaruzzaman, Sabri Boubaker, and Angel Zhong), 'A Better Model? An Empirical Investigation of the Fama-French Five-factor Model in Australia' (International Review of Finance, 2016, co-authored with David Chai, Angel Zhong, and Li Shi), and 'ESG Investing in Good and Bad Times: An International Study' (Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 2024, co-authored with Hoang Long, Nusret Cakici, Adam Zaremba, and Huseyin Bilgin). Chiah has received external research grants totaling over $300,000. His research has been cited in outlets including the CFA Institute, ABC, The Guardian, Yahoo Finance, and The Age. He has shared insights on financial markets via ABC News Radio, AusBiz, and Channel Ten. Awards include the SIRCA's Philip Brown Best Paper Award 2021 from the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (2022) and the Excellence in Teaching Award from Swinburne's School of Business, Law, and Entrepreneurship (2022).