Publications in Top Journals

SoA strongly encourages the research faculty to publish in the best academic journals to demonstrate the expertise and findings of our academics. In the past few years, SoA faculty members have published papers in the following top-tier journals.

CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNTING RESEARCH

Hye Sun CHANG, John CAMPBELL, Sean CAO and Raluca CHIOREAN, “The Implications of Firms' Derivatives Use on the Frequency and Usefulness of Management Earnings Forecasts” (forthcoming)
An-Ping LIN, Congcong LI, and Hai LU - “The Effect of Social Skills on Analyst Performance” (Volume 40, Issue 2, Pages 1418-1447, Summer 2023)
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Xia CHEN, Guojin GONG, and Shuqing LUO - “Short Interest and Corporate Investment: Evidence from Supply Chain Partners” (Volume 39, Issue 2, Pages 1455-1508, Summer 2022)
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Rencheng WANG and Charles HSU - "Bundled Earnings Guidance and Analysts' Forecast Revisions" (Volume 38, Issue 4, Pages 3146–3181, Winter 2021) 
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Rencheng WANG, Michael TANG, and Yi ZHOU - "Labor Market Mobility and Expectation Management: Evidence from Enforceability of Non-compete Provisions" (Volume 38, Issue 2, Pages 867-902, Summer 2021) 
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Xia CHEN, Qiang CHENG, Travis CHOW, and Yanju LIU - "Corporate In-house Tax Departments" (Volume 38, Issue 1, Pages 443-482, Spring 2021)
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Sterling HUANG, Daniel BENS, Liang TAN, and Wan WONGSUNWAI - "Contracting and Reporting Conservatism around a Change in Fiduciary Duties" (Volume 37, Issue 4, Pages 2472-2500, Winter 2020) 
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Heng YUE, Ole-Kristian HOPE, and Qinlin ZHONG - "China’s Anti-Corruption Campaign and Financial Reporting Quality" (Volume 37, Issue 2, Pages 1015-1043 (Summer 2020)
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Xia CHEN, Qiang CHENG, Heng YUE, and Ting LUO - "Short Sellers and Long-run Management Forecasts" (Volume 37, Issue 2, Pages 802-828, June 2020) 
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Liandong ZHANG, Francis KIM, and Ke WANG - "Readability of 10-K Reports and Stock Price Crash Risk" (Volume 36, Issue 2, Pages 1184-1216, Summer 2019)
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Qiang CHENG, Fei DU, Yutao WANG, and Xin WANG - "Do Corporate Site Visits Impact Stock Prices?" (Volume 36, Issue 1, Pages 359-388, Spring 2019)
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Beng Wee GOH, Jimmy LEE, Sung Gong CHUNG, and Terry SHEVLIN - "Corporate Tax Aggressiveness and Insider Trading" (Volume 36, Issue 1, Pages 230-258, Spring 2019)
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Qiang CHENG, Beng Wee GOH, and Jae Bum KIM - "Internal Control and Operational Efficiency" (Volume 35, Issue 2, Pages 1102-1139, Summer 2018)
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JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTING AND ECONOMICS

David SAMUEL, Stacie Kelley LAPLANTE, Christina LEWELLEN and Dan LYNCH, ''Just BEAT It' Do Firms Reclassify Costs to Avoid the Base Erosion and Anti-Abuse Tax (BEAT) of the TCJA?” (Volume 77, Issues 2–3, 101648, April-May 2024)
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Pengkai LIN, Stephanie F CHENG, and Gus DE FRANCO - “Marijuana Liberalization and Public Finance: A Capital Market Perspective on the Passage of Medical Use Laws” (Volume 75, Issue 1, 101516, February 2023)
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An-Ping LIN, Allen H HUANG, and Amy Y ZANG - “Cross-Industry Information Sharing among Colleagues and Analyst Research” (Volume 74, Issue 1, 101496, August 2022)
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Rencheng WANG, Charles HSU, and Ben WHIPPLE - “Non-GAAP Earnings and Stock Price Crash Risk” (Volume 73, Issues 2–3, April–May 2022)
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Heng YUE, Liandong ZHANG, and Qinlin ZHONG - "The Politics of Bank Opacity” (Volume 73, Issues 2-3, 101452, April - May 2022)
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Jung-Bae KIM, Daniel AOBDIA, and Yiwei DOU - “Public Audit Oversight and the Originate-to-Distribute Model” 
(Volume 72, Issue 1, 101420, August 2021)
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JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTING RESEARCH

Rencheng WANG, Chen CHEN, Leye LI, and Louise LU, “Flu Fallout: Information Production Constraints and Corporate Disclosure” (Volume 61, Issue 4, Pages 1063-1108, September 2023)
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Jung-Bae KIM, Christine CUNY, and Mihir MEHTA - "Politically Connected Governments" (Volume 58, Issue 4, Pages 915-952, September 2020)
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Richard M CROWLEY, Nerissa C BROWN, and W Brooke ELLIOTT - "What Are You Saying? Using topic to Detect Financial Misreporting" (Volume 58, Issue 1, Pages 237-291, March 2020)
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Sterling HUANG and Gilles HILARY - "Zombie Board: Board Tenure and Firm Performance" (Volume 56, Issue 4, Pages 1285-1329, September 2018)
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Yun LOU, Rencheng WANG, and Thomas BOURVEAU - "Shareholder Litigation and Corporate Disclosure: Evidence from Derivative Lawsuits" (Volume 56, Issue 3, Pages 797-842, June 2018)
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Liandong ZHANG, Yinghua LI, and Yupeng LIN - "Trade Secrets Law and Corporate Disclosure: Causal Evidence on the Proprietary Cost Hypothesis" (Volume 56, Issue 1, Pages 265-308, March 2018)
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REVIEW OF ACCOUNTING STUDIES

Wei Ting LOH, Mei FENG, Weili GE and Zhejia LING, “Prosocial CEOs and Accounting Information Quality” (forthcoming).
Jung-bae KIM, “The Effect of PCAOB Inspections on Corporate Innovation: Evidence from Deficiencies about the Valuation of Intangibles” (Volume 29, Pages 1491–1523, 2024)
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Hye Sun CHANG, Neil BHATTACHARYA, and Raluca CHIOREAN - “Regulatory Interventions in Response to Non-Compliance with Mandatory Derivatives Disclosure Rules” (Volume 28, Pages 2196-2232, 2023)
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Yun LOU, Daniel COHEN, Bin LI, and Ningzhong LI - "Major Government Customers and Loan Contract Terms" (Volume 27, Issue 2, Pages 275–312, 2022) 
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Bingxu FANG and Ole-Kristian HOPE - "Analyst Teams" (Volume 26, Issue 2, Pages 425-467, 2021)
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An-Ping LIN, Congcong LI, Hai LU, and Kevin VEENSTRA - "Gender and Beauty in the Financial Analyst Profession: Evidence from the US and China" (Volume 25, Issue 4, Pages 1230-1262, December 2020)
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Xia CHEN, Qiang CHENG, Ying HAO, and Qiang LIU - "GDP Growth and Earnings Management: Evidence from China" (Volume 25, Issue 3, Pages 1002-1039, September 2020)
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Bingxu FANG, Ole-Kristian HOPE, Zhongwei HUANG, and Rucsandra MOLDOVAN - "The Effects of MiFID II on Sell-Side Analysts, Buy-Side Analysts, and Firms" (Volume 25, Issue 3, Pages 855-902, 2020)
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Xia CHEN, Mei FENG, and Chan LI - "Family Entrenchment and Internal Control: Evidence from S&P 1500 Firms" 
(Volume 25, Issue 1, Pages 246-278, March 2020)
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Jimmy LEE, Chee Yeow LIM, Kiridaran KANAGARETNAM, and Gerald LOBO - "Societal Trust and Corporate Tax Avoidance" (Volume 23, Issue 4, Pages 1588-1628, December 2018)
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Qiang CHENG, Young Jun CHO, and Holly YANG - "Financial Reporting Changes and the Internal Information Environment: Evidence from SFAS 142" (Volume 23, Issue 1, Pages 347-383, March 2018)
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Heng YUE, Pingui RAO, and Xin ZHOU - "Return Predictability and the Real Option Value of Segments" (Volume 23, Issue 1, Pages 167-199, March 2018)
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THE ACCOUNTING REVIEW

Yun LOU, Yin WANG, Vedran CAPKUN, and Clemens A OTTO, “Do Firms Respond to Peer Disclosures? Evidence from Disclosures of Clinical Trial Results”
(Volume 98, Issue 3, Pages 71–108, May 2023)
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Xia CHEN, An-Ping LIN, and Na LI, “CFO Gap: Determinants and Impact on Corporate Information Environment” (Volume 97, Issue 6, Pages 173 - 200, October 2022)
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Sterling HUANG, Christopher S ARMSTRONG, and Stephen GLAESER, “Contracting with Controllable Risk” (Volume 97, Issue 4, Pages 27- 50, July 2022)
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Rencheng WANG, Kemin WANG, John WEI, Bohui ZHANG, and Yi ZHOU - "Insider Sales under the Threat of Short Sellers: New Hypothesis and New Tests" (Volume 97, Issue 2, Pages 427–451, 2022)
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Shaphan NG, Yoojin LEE, Terry SHEVLIN, and Aruhn VENKAT - "The Effects of Tax Avoidance News on Employee Perceptions of Managers and Firms: Evidence from Glassdoor.com Ratings” (Volume 96, Issue 3, Pages 343-372, 2021)
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Liandong ZHANG, Wen CHEN, and Haibin WU - "Terrorist Attacks, Managerial Sentiment, and Corporate Disclosures" (Volume 96, Issue 3, Pages 165-190, 2021)
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Samuel TAN and Patricia M DECHOW - "How Do Accounting Practices Spread? An Examination of Law Firm Networks and Stock Option Backdating" (Volume 96, Issue 1, Pages 431-464, 2021)
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Yun LOU, Ningzhong LI, Clemens A OTTO, and Regina WITTENBERG-MOERMAN - "Accounting Quality and Debt Concentration" (Volume 96, Issue 1, Pages 377-400, 2021) 
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Sterling HUANG, Jeffrey NG, Tharindra RANASINGHE, and Mingyue ZHANG - "Do Innovative Firms Communicate More? Evidence from the Relation between Patenting and Management Guidance" (Volume 96, Issue 1, Pages 273-297, 2021)
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Young Jun CHO, Yoonseok ZANG, and Yongtae KIM - "Information Externalities and Voluntary Disclosure: Evidence from a Major Customer's Earnings Announcement" (Volume 95, Issue 6, Pages 73-96, 2020)
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Sterling HUANG, Sugata ROYCHOWDHURY, and Ewa SLETTEN - "Does Litigation Encourage or Deter Real Earnings Management?" (Volume 95, Issue 3, Pages 251-278, 2020) 
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Sterling HUANG, Chris ARMSTRONG, Stephen GLAESER, and Daniel TAYLOR - "The Economics of Managerial Taxes and Corporate Risk-Taking" (Volume 94, Issue 1, Pages 1-24, January 2019)
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Young Jun CHO, Neil BHATTACHARYA, and Jae Bum KIM - "Leveling the Playing Field between Large and Small Institutions: Evidence from the SEC’s XBRL Mandate" (Volume 93, Issue 5, Pages 51-71, September 2018)
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