Hongping Tan

Financial analysts, corporate disclosure and data analytics.
MGCR211 Introduction to Financial Accounting
Acct434(451) Advanced Topics of Data Analytics in Capital Market
ACCT696 Data Analytics in Capital Market
ACCT705 Phd Advanced Topics: Data Analytics
PhD accounting supervisor for Yaping Zheng, Peng Wang, Ken Duan, Ximi Wang, Tomas Milos, Drewer Ng
July 2014 - June 2017 Associate Professor, York University
July 2012 - June 2014 Associate Professor, University of Waterloo
Aug 2012 - Apr 2013 Visiting Associate Professor, SUNY at Buffalo
July 2008 - June 2012 Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo
July 2006 - June 2008 Assistant Professor, UNBC, Canada
June 2000 - June 2001 Visiting scholar at University of Toronto, Canada
July 1996 - Aug. 2001 Lecturer, Associate Professor, Hubei University, China
- Valuation Uncertainty and Analysts’ Use of DCF Models, 2021, with Shengzhong Huang, Xiongyuan Wang, and Changqiu Yu, 2023. Review of Accounting Studies 28: 827–861.
- Institutional Trading around Corporate News: Evidence from Textual Analysis, with Alan Huang and Russ Wermers, 2020. Review of Financial Studies 33(10): 4627-4675.
- The Effects of Analyst-Country Institutions on Biased Research: Evidence from Target Prices, 2019, Journal of Accounting Research 57 (1): 85-120, with Mark Bradshaw and Alan Huang.
- Geographic Proximit y and IPO Firm Coverage, 2015, Journal of Accounting and Economics 59 (1), pp. 41-59, with Patricia C. O'Brien.
- Do Foreigners Facilitate Information Transmission in Emerging Market? Journal of Financial Economics 105, 2012, with Kee-Hong Bae, Arzu Ozoguz, and Tony S. Wirjanto, pp. 209–227.
- Foreign Analyst Following and Forecast Accuracy after Mandated IFRS Adoptions. Journal of Accounting Research 49 (5), 2011, with Shiheng Wang and Mike Welker, pp. 1307-1357.
- Do Local Analysts Know More? A Cross-country Study of the Performance of Local Analysts and Foreign Analysts. Journal of Financial Economics 88, 2008, with Kee-Hong Bae and René Stulz, pp. 581–606. Featured in the February 2009 issue of the CFA Digest, a CFA Institute publication.
- International GAAP Differences: The Impact on Foreign Analysts. The Accounting Review 83, 2008, with Kee-Hong Bae and Michael Welker, pp. 593-628.
2023 SSHRC Connection Grant, 2023 McGill Accounting Research Conference: Accounting and Sustainability, 2023-2025, co-applicant with Brian Wenzel and Peter Oh, $21,783.
2022 SSHRC Insight Grant Stream B 435-2022-0757, Private Interaction with Management: Evidence from Textual Analysis of Analyst Reports, 2022-2026, principal investigator, $147,966, with Minkang Lu, Guang Ma, Changqiu Yu
2019 SSHRC Insight Grant 435-2019-0435, 2019-2022, co-applicant with Jing Wang and Li Yao, $94,126,
2016 SSHRC Insight Grant, 2016-2020, principal investigator, $89,600
2012 SSHRC Insight Grant, 2012-2016, co-applicant with Alan Huang, $117,558
2012 Best International Paper Award at the EFA 2012 Boston, MA
2011 CFA Best Paper Award at the 2011 FMA Asian Conference, New Zealand
2011 Vernon Zimmerman Best Paper Award at the 23rd Asian-Pacific Conference on International Accounting Issues in Beijing, China
2011 SSHRC Standard Research Grant, 2011-2014, with Patricia O'Brien and Tony Wirjanto, $87,062
2010 WatRISQ Research Award, 2011-2012, with Alan Huang, $5,000
2009 SSHRC Standard Research Grant, 2009-2012, with Michael Welker and Shiheng Wang, $75,000, Research Time Stipend included
2008 SSHRC Standard Research Grant, 2008-2011, $22,726
2006 Best Paper Award at the Conference on Asia-Pacific Financial Markets, Seoul, Korea
2001-2005 Queen’s Graduate Award, Mcleod-D.I. Fellowship, Geoffrey H. Wood Scholarship
1999 Graduate Research Award of the Construction Bank of China, Wuhan University
1998 Top 10 Distinguished Youth Faculty of Hubei University, China
- Climatic Disasters and Distracted Analysts, 2023, with Yuqi Han, Connie X. Mao, and Chi Zhang. Conditional acceptance at CAR, Presented at 2020 FMA, EFA Boston, Florida International, Kent State, Massachusetts Lowell, McGill, Temple, and Willamette University.
- Corporate Textual Transparency and Economic Growth, 2023, with Minkang Lu, Ziwei Qiao and Li Yao, Presented at Marquette, McGill, Renming, UBC, and ZUEL.
- Corporate Textual Transparency and FDI, 2022, with Minkang Lu and Ziwei Qiao.
- Linguistic Ambiguity of Analyst Reports, 2021, with Minkang Lu and Ziwei Qiao, Presented at McGill and Thomas River University
- Foreign Analyst Superiority in Risk Assessment, 2021, with Changqiu Yu.
- Analysts’ Technological Expertise, 2020, with Jin Wang and Li Yao. Presented at Concordia University, Jinan University, McGill University, The University of Hong Kong, Wuhan University, York University, CAAA 2016 conference, and 2016 Telfer Conference on Accounting and Finance.
- WACC Assessment and Analysts’ Target Price Forecasts, 2020, with Zhu Chen. Presented at McGill.
- Managerial Expectations and Corporate Risk-Taking: Evidence from Textual Analysis of Form 20-F Filings, 2020, with Zhu Chen and Minkang Lu. Presented at McGill University.
- Societal Trust and the Informativeness of Analyst Research, with Kee-Hong Bae and Kiridaran Kanagaretnam, 2019, Presented at Brock, CUFE, McGill, Peking, Wuhan, ZUEL and EFA at Baltimore.
- The Walk-down to Beatable Forecasts: International Evidence, 2019, with Michael Welker and Rania Zhang.
- Too Much of a Good Thing? Mandatory Risk Disclosure and Corporate Innovation, 2021, with Shiu-Yik Au. Presented at University of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and York University.
Textual analysis of corporate disclosure and financial analyst reports.