Kiridaran Kanagaretnam, York University

Research

informal institutions formal institutions corporate governance bank risk-taking tax evasion Climate risk FinTech Lenders Discrimination in Lending

Latest papers

Erratum to "Impact of social capital on tone ambiguity in banks' 10-K filings" [J. Behav. Exp. Finance 29 (2020) 100411].
Journal of behavioral and experimental finance · 2021 · first author

All 1 publications

Latest funding

Are Firms Reactive or Proactive to Climate Change Risk?
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
$30,376
Climate Beliefs and Attitudes, Economic Distress, and Pollution
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
$45,309
Banks' digital transformation, credit quality, and financial reporting effectiveness
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
$24,600

All 13 grants and awards

1 publications.

01

Erratum to "Impact of social capital on tone ambiguity in banks' 10-K filings" [J. Behav. Exp. Finance 29 (2020) 100411].

Kanagaretnam K, Mawani A, Shi G, Zhou Z

Journal of behavioral and experimental finance2021First author

DOI: 10.1016/j.jbef.2021.100467 PMID: 36569187

Are Firms Reactive or Proactive to Climate Change Risk?

Principal investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Kanagaretnam, Kiridaran

Keywords: Climate Beleifs; Climate Risk; Clean Innovation; Bank Risk Management

$30,376

Climate Beliefs and Attitudes, Economic Distress, and Pollution

Co-investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Sarkar, Sudipto

Keywords: Climate beliefs and attitudes; Economic distress; Pollution

$45,309

Banks' digital transformation, credit quality, and financial reporting effectiveness

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Jia, Xiaoran

Keywords: Digital Transformation; Bank Credit Risk Management; Bank Financial Accounting; Financial Reporting Quality; Corporate Governance; Financial Technology

$24,600

Financial Literacy, Information Quality, and Corporate Governance

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Jia, Xiaoran

Keywords: Financial literacy; Corporate governance; Earnings Quality; Information Quality

$35,364

L'insurrection de Roméo (8-9-10 janvier 1811): archives, construction du pouvoir blanc et résistance à l'esclavage en Louisiane

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Le Glaunec, Jean-Pierre

Keywords: Histoire; Esclavage; Résistance; Révolte; Louisiane ; Archives ; Pouvoir blanc; Approche décolonisée

$24,434

FinTech and Discrimination in Lending

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Kanagaretnam, Kiridaran

Keywords: FinTech Lenders; Discrimination in Lending; Alternate Information; Soft Information; Peer-to-Peer Lending; Economics of Discrimination; Financial Technology Lenders; Low-income Borrowers; Minority Borrowers

$21,454

FinTech and Discrimination in Lending

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Kanagaretnam, Kiridaran

Keywords: FinTech Lenders; Discrimination in Lending; Alternate Information; Soft Information; Peer-to-Peer Lending; Economics of Discrimination; Financial Technology Lenders; Low-income Borrowers; Minority Borrowers

$34,046

Climate risk, information environment and cost of equity capital

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Kanagaretnam, Kiridaran

Keywords: Climate risk; Climate vulnerable industries; information environment; cost of equity capital; Analyst forecasts; Cross-country studies

$50,000

Relative importance of country-level institutions for financial decisions

Principal investigatorSSHRC2019Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Kanagaretnam, Kiridaran

Keywords: informal institutions; formal institutions; corporate governance; bank risk-taking; tax evasion

$98,000

The impact of economic and monetary policies on bank financial reporting

Co-investigatorSSHRC2016Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Jin, Justin Yiqiang

Keywords: bank accounting quality; bank funding strategy; auditor; social capital

$52,000

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

Frequent collaborators

Amin Mawani

Accounting

1 shared papers, latest 2021

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: informal institutions Dear Professor Kanagaretnam, 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]. I read your paper "Erratum to "Impact of social capital on tone ambiguity in banks' 10-K filings" [J. Behav. Exp. Finance 29 (2020) 100411]." (2021), and it 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 "Are Firms Reactive or Proactive to Climate Change Risk?" (2025), 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]