时 间：2026年4月7 日（周二）10：00 – 11：00
地 点：普陀校区理科大楼A1714室
报告人：TIAN GARY GANG 麦考瑞大学应用金融系教授
主持人：钱林义 华东师范大学教授
摘 要：
This seminar presents my recent research on how political incentives, informal institutions, and regulatory frictions shape corporate decisions in China. Drawing on my published work in Management Science, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Review of Accounting Studies, and Journal of Management Studies, I examine how political forces influence CEO compensation, corporate investment, tax avoidance, and capital allocation. These studies show that political hierarchy, social identity, and administrative discretion have important effects on firm behavior, governance, and market efficiency. I will also briefly introduce ongoing research extending this agenda to questions at the intersection of ESG, corporate finance, accounting, and institutional analysis. More broadly, the seminar highlights how China-based research can contribute to international scholarship through distinctive institutional settings, hand-collected data, and rigorous empirical design.
报告人简介：
Gary Tian is Professor of Finance in the Department of Applied Finance at Macquarie University, Australia, where he has served since 2016. Prior to joining Macquarie, he held academic appointments at the University of Wollongong and Deakin University. His research lies at the intersection of corporate finance and accounting, with particular interests in ESG and business ethics, political connections, social identity in finance, CEO compensation, bank lending and informal finance, innovation, and investment efficiency. Professor Tian has published close to 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals, including multiple Web of Science Highly Cited Papers (top 1%). His scholarly impact is reflected in a Google Scholar h-index of 47 with more than 9,000 citations and a Scopus h-index of 34. He has also received international recognition in major research rankings (e.g., Handelsblatt, ERIM, ABDC, CABS, VHB), and was placed in the top 0.18% globally for five-year research performance by ScholarGPS (2025). His recent publications appear in leading journals such as Management Science, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Review of Accounting Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, European Accounting Review, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, and British Accounting Review. He has successfully supervised more than 25 PhD students and currently serves as Deputy Editor of the Journal of Accounting and Finance.