Publications or Accepted Papers
CEO Hometown Preference in Corporate Environmental Policies, with Qiping Xu and Qifei Zhu
Management Science (2025), 71(10): 8783-8806
Media: MS Social Media; National Affairs; Economics of Climate Change Forum
Discontinuous Distribution of Test Statistics Around Significance Thresholds in Empirical Accounting Studies, with Xin Chang (Simba) and Huasheng Gao
Journal of Accounting Research (2025), 63(1): 165-206
Media: Faculti Interview; CityU Accountancy News
Research Integrity Conference Poster Session (First Prize)
Top Cited Article in JAR
Investor-Paid Credit Ratings and Managerial Information Disclosure
Management Science (2024), 71(3): 2142-2169
From Friends to Filings? Social Connectedness and the Demand for Public Information, with Boluo Liu and Yuan Zhang
Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance, accepted
Do Political Connections Affect Stock Price Crash Risk? Firm-level Evidence from China, with Lihong Wang
Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting (2017), 48(3): 643–676
Working Papers
Sustainability or Permission to Pollute: The Environmental Consequences of Government Subsidies, with Yangyang Chen and Jie Li
SJTU (2025), MSFC (2025), LU-JNU Joint Conference (2025)
What Lies Beneath the Haze? Wildfire Smoke and Industrial Pollution, with Xin Chang, Jing Kong, and Michael Shen
CityU HK (2025), Cornell University* (2025), Georgetown University* (2025), MIT* (2025), CUHK SZ* (2025), Tsinghua University* (2025), Hang Seng University of HK* (2025), ESSEC-NTU Conference* (2025), LU-JNU Joint Conference* (2025)
A Clean Slate: The Impact of Employer Credit Check Bans on Financially-Motivated Crimes, with Yangyang Chen and Jie Li
CJAR (2026), FDU (2025), HARC (2026), HK–Macau Junior Accounting Faculty Conference (2025)
The Importance of Financial Reporting to Supply Chain Contracting: Evidence from Private Firms, with Yangyang Chen, Zihui Li, and Ju Mao
R&R at The Accounting Review
Permanent Working Papers
The Opioid Epidemic and Local Public Financing: Evidence from Municipal Bonds, with Qifei Zhu
Midwest Finance Association Annual Meeting* (2020)
Local Gambling Preference and Corporate Cash Holding
CICF (2017, Hangzhou); FMA Asia/Pacific (2018, Hong Kong)
(* indicates presentation by co-author)