Rate My Professor Priyantha Mudalige

Dr. Priyantha Mudalige served as Discipline Lead and Course Coordinator in Finance at Curtin University within the School of Economics, Finance and Property, Faculty of Business and Law. He holds a PhD in Finance from the University of South Australia, a Master of Business Administration and B.Sc. in Accountancy and Financial Management (Special) from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka, a Diploma in Financial Planning from Kaplan Professionals, a Certificate in Business Analytics and Data Visualisation from RMIT University, Melbourne, and completed the Microstructure Course offered by the Financial Research Network (FIRN). With over eight years of academic experience, he began his career as a sessional academic at the University of Adelaide and Flinders University during his PhD candidature at the University of South Australia. At Curtin University, he contributed to school and faculty teaching, learning, and research committees and participated in accreditation of financial planning programs. He currently serves as Senior Lecturer in Finance and Course Coordinator for Accounting and Finance at the University of New England Business School, Faculty of Science, Agriculture, Business and Law, where he oversaw the reaccreditation of accounting and finance programs.

Mudalige's research focuses on capital market microstructure, including informed trading, market efficiency, individual and institutional trading, price discovery, liquidity, volatility, insider trading, and market manipulation; corporate finance topics such as firm value, financial constraints, gender and board diversity, supply chain finance, and fintech; environmental finance encompassing green bond issuance, investor attention, ESG, carbon emissions, and trading; and financial planning areas like investor personality traits, risk tolerance, financial literacy, and investor behaviour. Key publications include 'Under the microscope: Trade initiation activities around earnings and takeover announcements in a market with continuous disclosure' (Global Finance Journal, 2024, with P.S. Kalev); 'Who trades in competing firms around earnings announcements?' (Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2020, with H.N. Duong, P.S. Kalev, K. Gupta); 'Do environmentally sustainable practices lead to financially less constrained firms? International evidence' (International Review of Financial Analysis, 2020, with R. Banerjee, K. Gupta); 'Individual and institutional trading volume around firm-specific announcements' (International Journal of Managerial Finance, 2016, with P.S. Kalev, H.N. Duong); and 'The Effects of Environmental Regulation on the Singapore Stock Market' (Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 2019, with H. Pham, V. Nguyen, V. Ramiah, I. Moosa). He has presented at conferences including the Australasian Finance and Banking Conference, INFINITI Conference, and Financial Markets and Corporate Governance Conference. Awards include the SIRCA Best Paper Award (2017), CFA Institute Asia Pacific Practical Capital Markets and Behavioral Research Award (2016), nomination for the Ian Davey Thesis Prize (2017), and UNE Unit Commendation Awards for AFM101 and AFM406 (2024, 2025).