Fan Wu (吴凡)

Welcome

I am a 5th-year Accounting Ph.D. candidate at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.

My research interests include the real effects of disclosures on corporate innovation and operational decisions, corporate governance, and management control systems.

You can contact me at: f.wu@fs.de 

Publication

CEOs’ Structural Power, Prestige Power, and Target Ratcheting (with Aishwarrya Deore and Matthias Mahlendorf). 

Working Papers

More Disclosure, Fewer Outside Opportunities? Accelerated Patent Disclosure and Market for Managerial Human Capital SSRN 

Presented at: the 3rd Annual Labor and Accounting Group Conference, the 45th Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association, AAA Annual Meeting 2023, and the 4th Emerging Scholars in Accounting Conference

This paper studies whether and how firms’ enhanced public disclosures can spill over to the managerial labor market by exploiting an institutional reform requiring the timely publication of patent filings. Consistent with these disclosures crowding out the demand for directors and senior managers’ (DSMs) private information, I find that their external employment opportunities deteriorate when firms disclose patent information more timely. This effect is stronger when the perceived value of disclosed information is higher and when DSMs have less operational experience in the patent-disclosing firm. Furthermore, their declining human capital value is priced in their decreased total compensation and further supported by their diminishing role in transferring information about technological innovations. Collectively, these results shed light on how public disclosures can shape the managerial labor market by substituting private information flows between firms through DSM ties. 

Removing Sludge – Does Lowering Barriers To Rate Improve The Informativeness of Crowd Consensus? (with Oliver Hegers and Matthias Mahlendorf) SSRN

Supervisor Behavior in Times of External Performance Pressure (with Wei Cai and Matthias Mahlendorf)