Visiting Scholar

Prof. Kanji Tanimoto Ph.D. in Business Administration Graduate School of Business Administration Kobe University, Japan (1984)

Research Interest

Business and Society, CSR/Sustainability Management, Social Business, Social Innovation

Academic Experience 

Professor, School of Commerce
Waseda University (2012--present)

Professor, Graduate School of Commerce and Management,
Hitotsubashi University (2000--2011)　

Professor, Faculty of Commerce and Management,
Hitotsubashi University (1997--2011)

Visiting Professor, Institute of East Asian Studies,

Free University Berlin (2010, 2014, 2017)

President of Japan Forum of Business and Society (2011--2021)

President of Japan Association for Social and Economic Systems Studies (2009--2013）

Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)

Fusion Oriented Research for disruptive Science and Technology, Advisor (2021--)

Course Instructed 

• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Financial Ethics

Visiting Scholar

Associate Prof. Tien-Shih Hsieh Ph.D. in Accountancy Graduate School of Bentley University – McCallum Graduate School of Business, Waltham, MA (2013)

Research Interest

Corporate Disclosures, Corporate Governance, Earnings Management, eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL)

Academic Experience 

Associate Professor(2019- Present)

University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth

Accounting and Finance Department

Visiting Professor(2020-2021)

City University of Hong Kong

Department of Accountancy

Assistant Professor(2013- 2018)

University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth

Accounting and Finance Department

Teaching Assistant(2010 - 2013)

Department of Accountancy - Bentley University, Waltham, MA

Design exam questions, grade and teach selected sessions in two undergraduate courses, “Tools and Concepts in Accounting and Finance” and “Practice and Applications in Accounting and Finance”.

Course Instructed 

• Tools & Concepts in Accounting & Finance
• Practice & Applications in Accounting & Finance
• Principles of Accounting I ACT 211 (In-Person)
• Principles of Accounting I ACT 211 (Blended)
• Principles of Accounting I ACT 211 (Online)
• Principles of Accounting II ACT 212 (In-Person)
• Intermediate Accounting I ACT 311 (In-Person)
• Intermediate Accounting I ACT 311 (Online)
• Intermediate Accounting I ACT 511 (In-Person)
• Corporate Accounting II AC 4301 (Online)
• Business Ethics for Professional Accountants and Company Secretaries (Online)

Visiting Scholar

Associate Prof. Ming-Tsung Lin Ph.D. in Accounting and Finance. Graduate School of University of Manchester, UK (2015)

Research Interest

Empirical asset pricing, particularly in credit default swaps

Academic Experience 

Course Instructed 

• Teaching Certificate:

• Postgraduate Certificate (PGCert), obtained in 2018.

• Higher Education Academy Fellowship (FHEA) Recognition, obtained in 2019.

• Professional Certificate:

• Financial Risk Manager (FRM) by GARP, obtained in 2009.

• Graduate Teaching Assistant by the University of Manchester, obtained in 2012.

Visiting Scholar

Dr. Xiaozhou Zhou Ph.D. in Finance (supervised by Prof. Georges Dionne) HEC Montreal, Canada (2009-2015)

Research Interest

Market Microstructure, Financial Econometrics, Risk Management, FinTech

Publications and Submitted Papers

1. Liquidity-adjusted Intraday Value at Risk modeling and risk management: An 

   application to data from Deutsche Börse. Dionne, G., Pacurar, M., and Zhou, X. (2015).

   Journal of Banking & Finance 59: 202-219.

2. The dynamics of ex-ante weighted spread: an empirical analysis. Dionne, G. and Zhou,

   X. (2020). Quantitative Finance 20 (4): 593-617.

3. IPO flipping activity in China and its implications (Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Vol

   61, 101345, 2020)

4. Effects of the Limit Order Book on Price Dynamics. (Journal of Empirical Finance, Vol.

   65, 77-98, 2022)

5. Impacts of Epidemics on Innovation: An Empirical Analysis. (Revise and resubmit,

   Technovation)

6. A Taxonomy of Individual Liquidity Provision: Evidence from the Taiwan Stock

   Exchange (Revise and resubmit, Finance Research Letters)

7. Capital Market Resilience and Technological Innovation: Empirical Evidence from

   Chinese Listed Companies (Revise and resubmit, Economic Research Journal (经济

   研究))

8. High Price Impact Trades in Different Information Environments: Implication for

   Volatility and Price Efficiency. (Submitted)

9. Insiders and M&A Announcements: What are Those Insiders Up To? (Submitted)

Working Papers

1. How Retail Investors Affect Stock Market? (with Chang Chan and Feng Zhan)
2. Market sentiment and bitcoin volatility (with Haibo Jiang and Alexandre Roch)
3. Are All Short-selling Trades the Same? A Market Microstructure Perspective (with Ahmad Alhaji and Hanwen Sun)
4. ESG and Innovation (with Ya Gao, Jun Wen and Sen Zhang)
5. The Contribution of Limit Orders to Price Discovery (with Tolga Cenesizoglu and Georges Dionne)

Patents

Simulation System for Economic Evolution of Urban Complex Area

Teaching

Undergraduate: Introduction to Finance (FIN3500), Investment (FIN5521)

D.E.S.S: Arbitrage and Trading Strategy (FIN8517)

M.Sc.: Trading and Exchanges (FIN8670), Optimization and Modeling (FIN8310)

Other Experience

1. Research fellow of Shenzhen Qianhai Institute for Innovative Research (QIIR) 2018-2021
2. Coach of Omnium Financier 2016-present
3. Visiting at Guanghua School of Management at Beijing University, China 2017
4. Intership at the PBC School of Finance at Tsinghua University, China 2014
5. Teaching Assistant for Théorie de microéconomies, University of Montreal 2009

Funding

1. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (50, 000 C$) 2022
2. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (45, 000 C$) 2020
3. Autorité de marché financier et Finance Montréal (50, 000 C$) 2020
4. Quebec Society and Culture Research Funding (FQRSC) (50,000C$) 2018

Other Honors and Awards

• Canada-China Scholars’ Exchange Program 2017
• Best publication of ESG, UQAM 2016
• Liste d’honneur du doyen de la Faculté des études supérieures et postdoctorales
• University of Montreal 2009
• Honor of Merit Student of Harbin Institute of Technology, China 2002-2003