Dr Ran Tao
PhD, MA, BA
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Research interests
Ran Tao joined Bristol Business School as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Finance in August 2022. Before that, he worked at Queen's University Belfast. He graduated from the ICMA Centre, University of Reading where he obtained both PhD degree in Finance and Master degree in Financial Risk Management. His research interests focus on developing textual analysis of news content and applying this to empirical asset pricing studies.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
From Pen to Print: Tracing the Evolution of Poverty Narratives in The Times Over Centuries
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Engineering Mathematics and TechnologyDates
03/06/2024 to 31/07/2024
Media, Momentum and the UK Stock Market: 1888–2021
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
This study uses textual analysis of Financial Times articles to examine the relationship between firms’ media coverage and their momentum effect. While Hillert, Jacobs and Müller (2014) suggest that firms…Managing organisational unit
School of Accounting and Finance - Business SchoolDates
01/04/2023 to 30/09/2025
Media, Momentum and the UK Stock Market: 1888–2021
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Accounting and Finance - Business SchoolDates
01/04/2023 to 30/09/2024
Publications
Recent publications
01/05/2025The female finance penalty
Research Policy
Competitive Categorization and Networks: Cognitive Strategic Groups
British Journal of Management
Tomorrow's fish and chip paper? Slowly incorporated news and the cross-section of stock returns
European Journal of Finance
When is a MAX not the MAX? How news resolves information uncertainty
Journal of Empirical Finance
Python Guide to Accompany Introductory Econometrics for Finance
Python Guide to Accompany Introductory Econometrics for Finance
