Wei-Yi Liao, University of Toronto

Research

disclosure banking accounting loan loss provision short selling internal capital market textual analysis machine learning

Latest funding

Agency Conflicts and Bank Monitoring
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$65,919
EDI in the Home Mortgage Market
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$30,950
Economic Impacts of Bank Disclosures and Accounting
SSHRC · 2019 · Principal investigator
$65,075

All 6 grants and awards

Agency Conflicts and Bank Monitoring

Principal investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Liao, Wei-Yi Scott

Keywords: Bank Monitoring; Liquidity; Agency Conflicts; Directors

$65,919

EDI in the Home Mortgage Market

Principal investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Liao, Wei-Yi (Scott)

Keywords: Home Mortgage; EDI; Racial Discrimination; Disclosure; BLM

$30,950

Economic Impacts of Bank Disclosures and Accounting

Principal investigatorSSHRC2019Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Liao, Wei-Yi Scott

Keywords: banking; accounting; disclosure; loan loss provision; short selling; internal capital market; textual analysis; machine learning

$65,075

Economic Impacts of Bank Disclosures and Accounting

Principal investigatorSSHRC2019Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Liao, Wei-Yi Scott

Keywords: banking; accounting; disclosure; loan loss provision; short selling; internal capital market; textual analysis; machine learning

$9,760

Economic consequences of loan loss provisions in the capital market

Principal investigatorSSHRC2015Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Liao, Wei-Yi Scott

Keywords: loan loss provision; analyst forecast; bank accounting

$68,239

The economic impact of the Dodd Frank Act of 2010

Principal investigatorSSHRC2012

Principal investigators: Liao, Wei-Yi Scott

Keywords: financial regulation; Dodd Frank Act; banking; risk

$33,695

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: disclosure Dear Professor Liao, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on disclosure connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Agency Conflicts and Bank Monitoring" (2024), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]