Mingxuan Ma
PhD Candidate in Accounting at the University of Zurich
PhD Candidate in Accounting at the University of Zurich
Welcome!
I am a PhD candidate in Accounting at the University of Zurich and a visiting scholar at the Yale School of Management.
My research fields include Shareholder Voting, Voluntary Disclosure, and Information Economics.
I study how information structures, preferences, and coordination motives shape voting and investment decisions and, ultimately, managerial behavior, market outcomes, and social welfare.
I employ both analytical modeling and empirical analysis in my research.
My CV here
My Research
Shareholder Democracy and Strategic Differentiation in Capital Markets, with Hui Chen (UZH) and Zeqiong Huang (Yale)
On the program: Carnegie Mellon University, Texas Christian University, the University of Zurich, the 2024 Brazilian Accounting Research Conference, the 2025 EAA Doctoral Colloquium, the 2025 Accounting Research Workshop, the 2025 Junior Accounting Theory Conference at NYU, the 2025 Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting, and the 2025 HKUST Accounting Research Symposium
In the news: Columbia Law School Blog
Sinking in the Same Boat: Portfolio Overlap and Strategic Information Acquisition, with Fan Wu (CUHK) and Haoran Liu (CUHK)
On the program: the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, the 2025 EAA Annual Congress, the 2025 China Financial Research Conference at Tsinghua University, the 2025 Australasian Finance & Banking Conference, and the 2026 Hawaii Accounting Research Conference
I Need a Network: Determinants and Real Effects of Bond Roadshows, with Fulvia Oldrini (UZH) and Sike Chen (Barclays)
On the program: the University of Zurich, the 2025 Rising Scholar Conference in Finance, the 2026 Hawaii Accounting Research Conference
Voluntary Disclosure and Beauty Contests, solo-authored