Simon Yap

Ying Kai (Simon) Yap is a Lecturer in the Department of Banking and Finance at Monash University, Australia. He received his Ph.D. in Finance from RMIT University in 2025 and has been with Monash University as a Teaching Fellow since 2016. His research interests in Finance are empirical corporate banking and finance, bankruptcy, peer effects, and information environment. His work has been published in journals such as Financial Review, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, Economics Letters, and Applied Economics. In addition to disciplinary research, he is actively involved in educational research and innovation. He has received several internal teaching and research grant awards, including the Dean’s Award for Early Career Teaching Excellence (2019) and the Dean’s Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning (2023). His educational research and innovation focuses on scalable approaches to personalised feedback that enhance student learning outcomes.

Teaching commitment:

• BFC2140 Corporate Finance (2022 to current)
• BFF3999/BFC3999 Finance and Society (2019 to current)
• BFF2140 Business Finance (2023)
• BFF1001 Foundation of Finance (2023)
• BFC5925 Financial Management Theory (2022)
• BFF5255 Modelling in Finance (2019 to 2021)
• BFX3301/BFX5260 Treasury and Financial Markets (2019 to 2021)
• BFF5954 Business Finance (2016 to 2018; 2021)
• BFB2140 Business Finance (2018 to 2021)
• BFB1001 Foundation of Finance (2017 to 2020)
• BFC5926 Financial Institutions and Markets (2018)
• BFF5916/BFC5916 International Banking (2017)

Education Research & Innovation:

• Automating personalised feedback in enhancing learning at scale
• Framed feedback (Gain vs Loss)