Dr Ran Tao
PhD, MA, BA
Current positions
Senior Lecturer in Finance
University of Bristol Business School
Contact
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Research interests
Ran Tao is an Assistant Professor (Senior Lecturer) of Financial Technology at the University of Bristol Business School. He obtained his PhD in Finance from the ICMA Centre at the University of Reading.
His research interests lie in empirical asset pricing, behavioural finance, and the analysis of financial news and media coverage, with a particular focus on how financial markets process information. Personal website.
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…Dates
01/04/2023 to 30/09/2025
Media, Momentum and the UK Stock Market: 1888–2021
Principal Investigator
Dates
01/04/2023 to 30/09/2024
Publications
Recent publications
11/05/2026VMDNet: EUSIPCO 2026: The 34th European Signal Processing Conference - European Signal Processing Conference Proceedings
The 34th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2026)
The female finance penalty: Why are women less successful in academic finance than related fields?
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
