JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS/FORTHCOMING
Cross-Border Cooperation Among Securities Regulators and Supply Chain Collaboration: Evidence from U.S.-Listed Foreign Firms (with Xiaoqi Chen*, Yuqi Wang**), Journal of International Business Studies, accepted. SSRN
The Spillover Effect of Natural Disaster on Analyst Forecast Inaccuracy: Evidence from Shared Analyst Coverage (with Xiaoqi Chen*, Agnes C.S. Cheng, and Zhi Li*), 2026, British Accounting Review, 58(3), 101577. SSRN
Risk Management Committee and Bank Performance: Evidence from the Adoption of the Dodd-Frank Act (with Mingming Ji*), 2024, Journal of Business Finance & Accounting 51, 1762-1788. SSRN
--Listed among the Top 40 most-cited papers at Journal of Business Finance & Accounting since 2024 (based on Scopus citation counts)
Lending Corruption and Bank Loan Contracting: Cross-Country Evidence (with Chong Wang), 2024, Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics 20(2), 100415. SSRN
Media Coverage and Debt Financing Choice (with Agnes C. S. Cheng and Weiling Song), 2024, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy 44, 107181. SSRN
Does Competition Affect Bank Risk? (with Ross Levine and Chen Lin), 2023, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 55(5), 1043-1076. SSRN | NBER
--Covered by the The Oxford Handbook of Banking, 4th Edition, edited by Allen N. Berger, Philip Molyneux, and John O. S. Wilson, Oxford University Press, 2025
Deposit Supply and Bank Transparency (with Ross Levine, Chen Lin, and Wensi Xie), 2022, Management Science 68(5), 3834-3855. SSRN
--Covered by the The Oxford Handbook of Banking, 4th Edition, edited by Allen N. Berger, Philip Molyneux, and John O. S. Wilson, Oxford University Press, 2025
Aggressive CEOs and Bank Mergers and Acquisitions (with Mingming Ji*), 2022, Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics 18(3), 1-21. SSRN
--Lead Article
Policy Uncertainty and Textual Disclosure (with Jeffrey A. Pittman and Walid Saffar), 2022, Accounting Horizons 36(4), 113-131. SSRN
--Listed among the Top 5 most-cited papers at Accounting Horizons since 2022 (based on Scopus citation counts)
Competition and Bank Liquidity Creation (with Ross Levine and Chen Lin), 2019, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 54, 513-538. SSRN | NBER
--Media mention: Wall Street Journal, VoxEU
The Role of Audit Verification in Debt Contracting: Evidence from Covenant Violations (with Hui Zhou), 2017, Review of Accounting Studies, 22, 469-501. SSRN
Competition and Bank Opacity (with Ross Levine and Chen Lin), 2016, Review of Financial Studies, 29, 1911-1942. SSRN| NBER
--Media mention: VoxEU, World Economic Forum, etc.
--Presented at: Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), The New Zealand Treasury, The 39th Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Annual Conference
Political Connections and the Cost of Bank Loans (with Joel Houston, Chen Lin and Yue Ma), 2014, Journal of Accounting Research 52, 193-243. SSRN
--Listed among the Top 5 most-cited papers at Journal of Accounting Research since 2014 (based on Scopus citation counts)
Effects of Foreign Institutional Ownership on Foreign Bank Lending: Some Evidence for Emerging Markets (with Yi Zhu), 2014, International Review of Finance 14, 263-293. SSRN
The Determinants of Pollution Levels: Firm-level Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing (with Chen Lin and Ping Lin), 2014, Journal of Comparative Economics 42, 118-142. SSRN
--Listed among the Top 5 most-cited papers at Journal of Comparative Economics since 2014 (based on Scopus citation counts)
Regulation and Corporate Corruption: New Evidence from the Telecom Sector (with Sanford Berg and Chen Lin), 2012, Journal of Comparative Economics 40, 22-43. SSRN
Universal Service Subsidies and Cost Inflation: Evidence from the U.S. Telecommunications Sector (with Sanford Berg and Chen Lin), 2011, Telecommunications Policy 35, 583-591. SSRN
Incentives for Cost Shifting and Misreporting: U.S. Rural Service Subsidies, 1991-2002 (with Sanford Berg and Chen Lin), 2011, Information Economics and Policy 23, 287-295. SSRN
*PhD student or former PhD student; ** master's degree student
ACADEMIC CITATION / IMPACT
Google Scholar Citations: > 2000
Scopus Citations: >1000
Web of Science Citations: >1000