Dr. Tongqing Ding

Assistant Professor

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Biography

Tony joined the University of Melbourne as a senior lecturer in September 2019. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2019. Tony obtained an M.S. in Accounting from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2014, followed by an M.S. in Management Science Engineering in 2006 and a B.S. in Business Administration in 2003 from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research interests encompass corporate governance, corporate disclosure, financial reporting, and the director labor market. In particular, he utilizes textual analysis to provide new insights into corporate governance disclosures. Current research projects focus on critical unresolved questions in areas such as board busyness, leadership structure, annual shareholder meetings, CEO succession, and corporate disclosure of governance-related information. Tony has won multiple awards, including the 2018 Doctoral Student Paper Award at the AAA Western Region Meeting for his job market paper.

Research Interests

Requirements for University of Melbourne

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3
IELTS
Listening
Required:6
Reading
Required:6
Writing
Required:6
Speaking
Required:6
Overall
Required:6.5
TOEFL
Listening
Required:16
Reading
Required:16
Writing
Required:19
Speaking
Required:19
Total
Required:81
PTE
Listening
Required:60
Reading
Required:60
Writing
Required:60
Speaking
Required:60
Overall
Required:64
Prerequisites
Undergraduate degree in a cognate discipline (Computer Science, Data Science, or Statistics) MAST10006 Calculus 2 MAST10007 Linear Algebra At least 12.5 credit points of computer programming subjects
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