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I am Professor, and Assistant Dean for Research of NUS Business School. I joined the National University of Singapore in July 2016. Before that, I was an Assistant Professor of Accountancy at the City University of Hong Kong. My works have been published in top accounting and finance journals, including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Management Science, Organization Science, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Review of Accounting Studies, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Applied Psychology and Nature: Human Behaviour. 

I was born in a small town in Leizhou, Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province, and went to Guangzhou for my studies at the age of 12. I attended the Affiliated High School of South China Normal University (Guangdong Olympic School)  in Guangzhou for six years, where I developed interests in Mathematics and Physics. I earned my Bachelor's degree in Economics from Sun Yat-sen University in 2008 and a Ph.D. in Finance from the National University of Singapore in 2014. My current research interests include topics related to banking and the role of information in insecure eras.

🎉🎉🎉Latest Publications:

a) A Tale of Two Market Disciplines: How does Bank Financial Misconduct Affect Peer Banks in the Local Deposit Market (2026) Conditional Acceptance at Journal Accounting Research.

Key Message: We show local peer banks exhibit divergent deposit responses, contingent on how the misconduct is perceived by information recipients in different economic contexts. During normal periods, depositors receiving a negative signal about bank misconduct reallocate their funds from misconduct banks to local peers—a local reallocation effect that decreases deposit spreads and increases deposit inflows for peer banks. During financial crisis periods, however, bank misconduct leads to withdrawals from both misconduct banks and their peer banks – a local contagion effect whereby local peer banks face increased deposit spreads and deposit outflows following the misconduct.

Methods: DiD with high order fixed effect using high dimensional data.

b) The 2003 U.S. Dividend Tax Cut, Small Business Loan Supply, and the Real Economy (2026) The Accounting Review

Key Message: An important complement of Yagan (2015) that there is a credit supply-side effect of the U.S. 2003 dividend tax cut on the real economy through the banking sector. C-corporation banks (treatment group), particularly those capital-constrained, increase the supply of small business loans more than S-subchapter banks (control group) following the tax cut. The areas with a greater presence of C-corporation banks exhibit more small business formations, employment, and innovations. 

Methods: DiD (C versus S banks)

c) The Impact of Generative AI on Information Processing: Evidence from the Ban of ChatGPT in Italy (2025). Journal of Accounting and Economics. 

Key Message: The ban discourages Tech Analysts located in Italy from using ChatGPT to produce firm-specific information (It is all about identifying who in which time window uses what informational tool to produce what type of information).

Methods: DiD + Lab Exp + Textual analysis

d) The Falling Roe and Relocation of Skilled Women  (2025) Conditional Acceptance at Contemporary Accounting Research.

Key Message: State level adoption of Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (TRAP) laws encourages skilled women with liberal political ideologies and weaker religious attachments to relocate to states without TRAP laws after their previous state adopts these laws. Utilizing the audit industry as a specific setting, we shed light on the negative impacts on job performance due to this ideology-driven labor mobility (It identifies ideology-driven labor mobility of skilled women).

Methods: DiD

Contact information:   

Email: bizliny@nus.edu.sg

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