Cong Tao

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I am a Ph.D. candidate in accounting at ESSEC Business School and will be joining the Department of Accounting and Finance at Lancaster University in August 2024.

My research focuses on financial accounting and capital markets, specifically corporate disclosure. Using archival data and natural language processing techniques, my current work examines how various forms of corporate disclosure, such as financial and ESG reports, are influenced by retail and institutional investors, and how corporate disclosure plays a role in investment decisions or information intermediaries' outputs.