Mingxuan Ma
Welcome! I am a PhD candidate in Accounting at the University of Zurich, supervised by Prof. Hui Chen, and a visiting scholar at the Yale School of Management, invited by Prof. Zeqiong Huang.
My research focuses on corporate governance, financial disclosure, and shareholder voting. I use both analytical modeling and empirical methods in my research.
I am on the 2026-2027 Job Market.
You can find my CV here
Working Papers
Voting on Corporate Disclosure, solo-authored JMP
Best Paper Award, German Economic Association of Business Administration, 2026
Best Presentation Award, CAAA Craft of Accounting Workshop, 2026
Conferences: 2026 Junior Accounting Theory Conference at Duke, 2026 CAAA Annual Conference, 2026 Workshop on Accounting & Economics at ESSEC, 2026 SARC Doctoral Consortium at BI Norwegian Business School, 2026 GEABA at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 2026 Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting at Rotman School of Management (scheduled).
Accounting Reports, Macro News, and Higher-Order Beliefs, with Hui Chen (Zurich)
Revise & Resubmit at Contemporary Accounting Research
Conferences: University of Waterloo*, 2026 EAA Annual Congress, 2026 CAAA Annual Conference.
Portfolio Overlap, Information Competition, and Firms’ Fair Disclosures, with Fan Wu (CUHK), Haoran Liu (CUHK)
Revise & Resubmit at Contemporary Accounting Research
Conferences: Frankfurt School of Finance & Management*, 2025 China Financial Research Conference at Tsinghua, 2025 EAA Annual Congress, 2025 Australasian Finance & Banking Conference at UNSW Sydney, 2026 Hawaii Accounting Research Conference.
Investor Voice, Fund Differentiation, and Mandate Drift, with Hui Chen (Zurich), Zeqiong Huang (Yale)
Under review at Review of Accounting Studies
Conferences: Carnegie Mellon University*, Texas Christian University*, 2025 EAA Doctoral Colloquium, 2025 Junior Accounting Theory Conference at NYU, 2025 Conference on Financial Economics & Accounting at Michigan State*, 2025 HKUST Accounting Research Symposium*
I Need a Network: Determinants and Consequences of Bond Roadshows, with Fulvia Oldrini (LSE), Sike Chen (Barclays)
Conferences: 2025 Rising Scholar in Finance at Zurich*, 2026 Hawaii Accounting Research Conference, 2026 ABR Early Career Accounting Scholars Conference.