Hongping Tan

Hongping Tan is a Professor of Accounting at McGill University's Desautels Faculty of Management. His research focuses on Big Data & Machine Learning, Capital Markets, Corporate Finance, Data Analytics, Disclosure, International Finance, and Law & Finance. He has published extensively in top-tier journals, including Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, and Journal of Financial Economics. His work explores topics such as analyst behavior, corporate disclosure, and the impact of financial regulations. Tan has taught courses in financial accounting and data analytics and has supervised PhD students in accounting. He has held academic positions at York University, University of Waterloo, and SUNY at Buffalo.

Hongping Tan is a researcher at McGill University specializing in analyst forecasts, corporate disclosure, and textual analysis. Their work explores how local and foreign analysts perform across countries, the impact of international GAAP differences on foreign analysts, and the role of geographic proximity in analyst coverage decisions. Tan also investigates how institutional trading and media coverage influence stock price crash risk and how climatic disasters affect analyst focus. Their research highlights the importance of technological expertise, societal trust, and mandatory risk disclosure in shaping the informativeness of analyst research and corporate innovation.