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

Liandong ZHANG, Yin WANG, Minjae KOO, and Annika Yu WANG "Riding Attention Spikes: How Analysts Respond to Advertising" (forthcoming)
Qiang CHENG, Holly YANG, Brian Yutao WANG, and Zheyuan ZHANG "How Do Analysts Affect Corporate Innovation? Evidence from Site Visits" (forthcoming)
Yun LOU, Rencheng WANG, Xuanbo LI, and Kaitang ZHOU “How Do Institutional Investors Facilitate Reporting Comparability? Evidence from Common Institutional Ownership in the U.S” (Volume 42, Issue 2, Summer 2025, Pages 1176-1211)
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Liandong ZHANG, Siwen FU, Ke WANG, and Liu ZHENG “Bogging Down Investors: An Unintended Consequence of Litigation Risk" (Volume 42, Issue 2, Summer 2025, Pages 1045-1078) 
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Qiang CHENG, Lin CHENG, Liwei WENG and Mark Yuzhi YAN “Institutional Dual-holders and Corporate Disclosures: A Natural Experiment” (Volume 42, Issue 2, Summer 2025, Pages 953-984)
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Xia CHEN, Ning JIA, and Dan WANG “Individual or Team Analyst Reports? The Organization of Analyst Research Activities” (Volume 42, Issue 2, Summer 2025, Pages 737-773)
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Heng YUE, Xiaoxi LI, Pingui RAO, Yong George YANG “Public Enforcement Through Independent Directors”, (Volume 41, Pages 2514-2545, 2024)
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Richard CROWLEY, Wenli HUANG, and Hai LU, “Discretionary dissemination on Twitter” (Volume 41, Issue 4, Pages 2454–2487, 2024)
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Young Jun CHO and Hojun SEO, “Segment Disaggregation and Equity-Based Pay Contracts” (Volume 41, Issue 2, Pages 1216-1247, Summer 2024)
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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” (Volume 40, Issue 4, Pages 2165-2875, October 2023)
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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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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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JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTING AND ECONOMICS

Qiang CHENG, Pengkai Lin, and Yue ZHAO, “Does Generative AI Facilitate Investor Trading? Evidence from ChatGPT Outages” (forthcoming)
Wei Ting LOH, "Information Sharing Within Institutional Investor Networks", Journal of Accounting and Economics (forthcoming)
Qiang CHENG, An-Ping LIN, and Mengjie YANG, "Green Innovation and Firms’ Financial and Environmental Performance: The Roles of Pollution Prevention versus Control" (Volume 79, Issue 1, February 2025, 101706)
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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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Qiang CHENG, Luzi HAIL, and Gwen YU, “The Past, Present, and Future of China-Related Accounting
Research” (Volume 74 101544, 2022)
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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

Liandong ZHANG, Yun LOU, and Xuanbo LI, “Do Commercial Ties Influence ESG Ratings? Evidence from Moody’s and S&P”, Volume 62, Issue 5, November 2024
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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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REVIEW OF ACCOUNTING STUDIES

Richard CROWLEY, Yun LOU, Samuel TAN, and Liandong ZHANG, “Misinformation Regulations: Early Evidence on Corporate Social Media Strategy” (forthcoming)
Wei Ting LOH, Patricia M DECHOW, and Annika Yu WANG, “A Rating System To Evaluate Non‑GAAP Exclusion Quality” (Volume 30, Pages 1037–1098, 2025)
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Wei Ting LOH, Mei FENG, Weili GE and Zhejia LING, “Prosocial CEOs, Corporate Policies, and Firm Value" (Volume 29, Pages 1854–1903, 2024)
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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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THE ACCOUNTING REVIEW

Grace FAN, “Economic Consequences of Public Pension Accounting Regulation Changes: Evidence from Housing Markets and Local Economies”  (Volume 100, Issue 4, Pages 249–275, 2025)
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KJ PARK, Vincent CASTELLANI, Karl A Muller III, “Investor Reaction to SPACs’ Voluntary Disclosures” (Volume 99, Issue 1, Pages 105-137, January 2024)
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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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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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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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