Benda Yin

Welcome to my website! I am Benda Yin, an Assistant Professor of Accounting at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). I received my Ph.D. from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business in 2025.

My research focuses on the role of accounting information in the capital market and in the banking system. My current research addresses topics such as the effects of accounting standards on information in stock prices, the transmission of depositor contagion through peer banks’ earnings information, the impact of timely reporting of insider trading on insider trading profits, and the extent to which management forecasts incorporate macroeconomic news.

Contact Information

benda.yin[at]ust.hk

Working papers

"Does Timely Reporting of Insider Trading Erode Insiders' Trading Profits?" with Xu Jiang and Xiumin Martin
"Earnings Information Spillover and Depositor Contagion," with Qi Chen, Itay Goldstein, and Rahul Vashishtha

Publication

"Managers’ Understanding of Macroeconomic News, Competitor Influence, and Firm Performance: Evidence from Consumer Sentiment News," with Mei Feng and Lian Fen Lee, forthcoming at Journal of Accounting and Economics
"The Benefits of Trade Secret Legal Protection: Evidence from Firms’ Cost Structure Decisions," with Feng Gao and Xue Wang, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 39(3), 847-875, November 2023.

Education

PhD in Business Administration, Duke University
MA in Economics, Rutgers University
BEcon in Finance, Renmin University of China

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