Writer: Updated: 2019-11-04 Times Read:
Title: CEOs’ Hometown Connections and Access to Trade Credit: Evidence from China
Time: 10 a.m. - 12 p.m., November 7, 2019
Venue: Room 501 Multiple-use Building
About Gary Tian (Prof. Tian Gang):
Gary Tian is Professor of Finance in the Department of Applied Finance, Macquarie University. He was a former Professor and Director of HDR and Research in the Department of Finance and founding Director of the Center of Business Research in China at Deakin Business School. He was also former Professor of Finance and Director of Chinese Commerce Research Centre at Wollongong University.
His research interests focus on corporate finance and governance in Chinese capital markets including political connections, CEO compensation, bank lending and informal finance, investment efficiency, family firm, and audit opinions and auditor choice. His published work on Chinese capital markets has appeared in numerous prestigious international journals including Management Science, Journal of Corporate Finance (six papers), Journal of Banking and Finance (five papers), Auditing a Journal of Practice and Theory and European Accounting Review (two papers). Over the last years, he successfully supervised 20 PhD students.
He is currently an Associate Editor for Accounting and Finance. He has been a board member of the Asian Finance Association since 2012 and was the Secretary between 2014 and 2016. As one of the chief investigators, he secured the only ARC Discovery Grant on the topic of The Importance of Being Politically Connected in the field of banking finance and investment in 2015.