Rate My Professor John Watson

John Watson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Banking and Finance at Monash Business School, Monash University, where he serves as Deputy Head of Department and Director of Education. He joined the department in 2002, having previously worked as a Senior Teaching Fellow at the University of Otago from 2000 to 2002. Prior to pursuing a full-time academic career, Watson was employed in business advisory roles at Polsen Higgs and Price Waterhouse. He completed his PhD titled 'Issues in Managed Funds: Australian Evidence' at Monash University in late 2010. His academic interests lie in finance, with a focus on superannuation and pension plans, alongside a special interest in operations research.

Watson's research specializations include managed funds, superannuation, efficiency analysis using data envelopment analysis, operations research, funds management, superannuation and pension finance, behavioural finance, and household finance. He has contributed to scholarly literature through publications in leading journals. Key works include 'The intra-regional spillover effects of bond defaults: evidence from the Chinese corporate debt market' (2023, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, with Wang, Huang, and Yang), 'Do mutual fund managers earn their fees? New measures for performance appraisal' (2020, European Journal of Operational Research, with Galagedera, Fukuyama, and Tan), 'Impact of mood and gender on individual investors’ reactions to retractions and corrections of earnings forecasts' (2019, Applied Economics, with Strydom and Scally), 'The global financial crisis and the mutual fund flow–performance relationship' (2018, The World Economy, with Wang and Wickramanayake), and 'Is socially responsible investing more risky? Australian evidence' (2018, book chapter, with Mackie, Palit, and Veeraraghavan). These publications address critical issues in fund performance, investor behavior, and market spillovers.