Dr Mollica’s research centres on securities market design, asset selection criteria, quantitative investment research and residential property price dynamics. He is currently working on issues related to high frequency traders, market transparency, institutional execution costs and property marketing strategies. Supervisor Homepage

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Technology Impact on Capital Markets, Research commissioned by the Financial Services Council (FSC) 21 May 2013

Shiguang Ma is a Senior Lecturer in finance in the School of Accounting, Economics and Finance at the University of Wollongong. Before he joined the School in 2008, he held either teaching or research positions in Universities in Australia, Hong Kong and China. He was also a deputy manager in Investment Banking Branch, Northern International Trust and Investment Corp. Shiguang research interests include market efficiency, initial public offer, corporate governance, earnings management, China’s and emerging financial market. Shiguang has about 50 publications of journal articles, book chapters and books in either English or Chinese. His recent publications appeared in Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Accounting and Finance, Journal of Asian Pacific Economy, Corporate Ownership and Control Problems and Perspectives in Management, and Applied Financial Economics. Shiguang has experienced teaching a number of subjects in the areas of finance, banking and business statistics, and at either undergraduate or postgraduate levels. Shiguang is also an experienced Honours, Masters and PhD mentor.

Andrew joined the school in July 2005 and was appointed Senior Lecturer in July 2011. Andrew teaches postgraduate financial accounting. Prior to his appointment at UNSW, Andrew taught at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. His research interest examines how accounting information is used by capital market participants, including issues on earnings co-movements, corporate disclosure, stock return volatility, the timeliness of earnings and asset pricing models. His paper, ‘Pierpont and the Capital Market’ was awarded a joint share of the Abacus 2009 Manuscript Award. Andrew is a director of the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) and is the Undergraduate Honours coordinator in the School of Accounting.

Quan Gan holds a Bachelor Degree in computer science from Tsinghua University, China; a Master Degree in Quantitative Finance from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and University of Zurich, Switzerland; a PhD degree in Econometrics from the University of New South Wales, Australia. Upon his graduation from Tsinghua, Quan worked as a software engineer III in San Jose (Silicon Valley), USA. After that he worked as a quantitative analyst in Zurich, Switzerland and a financial analyst in Sydney, Australia. Prior to joining the University of Sydney in 2009, he lectured business courses at Australian school of business and school of engineering, UNSW. He visits the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley from January to June in 2012. Quan currently serves as an associate editor of Asia-Pacific Financial Markets (the official journal of the Japanese Association of Financial Econometrics and Engineering). He served as a research fund reviewer for the Israel Research Foundation in 2013. Quan Gan holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation. He has published popular stock analysis articles and comments in Bloomberg, Australian Financial Review and Eureka Report. He also comments on financial markets on SBS radio program. Quan’s research has been reported by The Australian and Australian Financial Review.