Portrait of Dr Anh Tran

Dr Anh Tran

Reader in Finance

Cass Business School, Faculty of Finance

Contact

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Room BR5039, Bunhill Row

Postal address

Cass Business School
106 Bunhill Row
London
EC1Y 8TZ
United Kingdom

About

Overview

Anh L. Tran is a Reader / Associate Professor of Finance at the Cass Business School of City, University of London, Academic Director of the Cass M&A Research Centre, and a Fellow of the Gupta Governance Institute in Philadelphia. He joined the Faculty of Finance at Cass in August 2010 from Drexel University in Philadelphia, USA. Anh has taught corporate finance classes at both MSc and undergraduate levels. His research interests are in empirical corporate finance, including mergers and acquisitions, institutional investors, executive compensation, and corporate governance.

Anh has published many research articles in world leading journals including Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Management Science. He has received the City University Staff Prize for outstanding research and the Cass Business School Excellent Research Publication Awards. His research has been mentioned in various media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the Economist, Bloomberg, the New York Times, the Times, Le Monde, Les Echos, etc.

Qualifications

PhD.

Employment

  1. Reader in Finance, Cass Business School, City, University of London, Aug 2015 – present
  2. Senior Lecturer in Finance, Cass Business School, City, University of London, Aug 2012 – Jul 2015
  3. Lecturer in Finance, Cass Business School, City, University of London, Aug 2010 – Jul 2012

Fellowships

  1. Fellow, Higher Education Academy, 2020 – present
  2. Fellow, Gupta Governance Institute, 2019 – present

Expertise

Primary topics

  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Governance
  • Mergers & Acquisitions

Research students

1st supervisor

  • Siyang Tian, PhD Student

Liangrong Chunyu

Attendance: Sep 2016 – present, full-time

Role: 1st Supervisor

Siyang Tian

Attendance: Sep 2014 – present, full-time

Role: 2nd Supervisor

Boran Li

Attendance: Sep 2012 – present, full-time

Role: 1st Supervisor

Publications

Journal articles (7)

  1. Keswani, A., Tran, A.L. and Volpin, P. (2021). Institutional Debt Holder Governance. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, forthcoming.
  2. Blouin, J., Fich, E.M., Rice, E. and Tran, A.L. (2020). Corporate Tax Cuts, Merger Activity, and Shareholder Wealth. Journal of Accounting and Economics, 69(2-3). doi:10.1016/j.jacceco.2020.101315.
  3. Keswani, A., Stolin, D. and Tran, A.L. (2017). Frenemies: How do financial firms vote on their own kind? Management Science, 63(3), pp. 631–654. doi:10.1287/mnsc.2015.2314.
  4. Fich, E.M., Rice, E.M. and Tran, A.L. (2016). Contractual revisions in compensation: Evidence from merger bonuses to target CEOs. Journal of Accounting and Economics, 61(2-3), pp. 338–368. doi:10.1016/j.jacceco.2015.12.002.
  5. Fich, E.M., Harford, J. and Tran, A.L. (2015). Motivated monitors: The importance of institutional investors' portfolio weights. Journal of Financial Economics, 118(1), pp. 21–48. doi:10.1016/j.jfineco.2015.06.014.
  6. Fich, E.M., Tran, A.L. and Walkling, R.A. (2013). On the importance of golden parachutes. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 48(6), pp. 1717–1753. doi:10.1017/S002210901300063X.
  7. Fich, E.M., Cai, J. and Tran, A.L. (2011). Stock option grants to target CEOs during private merger negotiations. Journal of Financial Economics, 101(2), pp. 413–430. doi:10.1016/j.jfineco.2011.03.010.

Working paper

  1. Tian, S. and Tran, A. Cross-border Buyout Performance.

Education

Subject/Academic Leadership

- 8.2015 - present, Cass Mergers and Acquisitions Research Centre, Academic Director

Professional activities

Editorial activity (3)

  1. European Journal of Finance, Associate editor, 2020 – present.
  2. Corporate Governance: An International Review, Editorial board member, 2019 – present.
  3. Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Management Science, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance, European Financial Management, European Journal of Finance, Financial Review, International Review of Financial Analysis, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Managerial Finance, Emerging Market Finance and Trade, Referee.

Event/conference

  1. Annual Cass Mergers and Acquisitions Research Centre Conference. (Conference) http://www.cass.city.ac.uk/research-and-faculty/centres/marc (2016). Organising Committee.

Media appearances (24)

  1. Special purpose, special incentives. (2014) Findings.
  2. Do CEO merger bonuses reduce takeover premiums? (2013) financial news.
  3. The value of merger bonuses. (2013) fox business.com (website).
  4. CEO's get merger bonus when selling firms cheaply. (2013) news blaze.com (website).
  5. Can Huge CEO Golden Parachutes Hurt You. (2012) USNews.com (website).
  6. golden parachute seems to be rusting. (2012) USNews.com (website).
  7. Rip-cord economics. (2012) The Economist (magazine).
  8. Les parachutes dore peuvent nuire aux auctionnaires. (2011) Les Echos (newspaper).
  9. Salaries, actionnaires: meme combat? (2011) Le Monde (newspaper).
  10. Salaries, actionnaires: meme combat? (2011) www.monde.fr (website).
  11. Parachutes dores et rachats d'enterprises. (2011) www.lesechos.fr (website).
  12. +10% pour un dirigeant sur le dŽpart Žgale -5% pour la sociŽtŽ (Žtude). (2011) www.sicavonline.fr (website).
  13. +10% pour un dirigeant sur le dŽpart Žgale -5% pour la sociŽte (Žtude) :. (2011) Boursorama.
  14. +10% pour un dirigeant sur le dŽpart Žgale -5% pour la sociŽtŽ (Žtude). (2011) www.boursereflex.fr (website).
  15. (2011) zonebourse.
  16. Parachute dore et acquisition. (2011) NewsBanque.
  17. (2011) www.easybourse.fr (website).
  18. Parachute dore et acquisition. (2011) www.banquefinance.fr (website).
  19. Les parachutes dores present sur la performance des patrons. (2011) www.infos.actusite.fr (website).
  20. (2011) www.capgestion.fr (website).
  21. Shareholders lose out in takeovers. (2011) www.acqmagazine.com (website).
  22. (2011) Times (newspaper).
  23. (2011) Deal Book.
  24. (2011) Bloomberg.