Research

Publications

• Generalist CEOs and Credit Ratings

  •  With Zhiming Ma, Lufei Ruan, Haiyan Zhang

  • Contemporary Accounting Research, Vol. 38 (2): 1009–1036

• Information Quality and Workplace Safety

  •  With Ole-Kristian Hope, Heng Yue, and Jianyu Zhao

  • Journal of Management Accounting Research, 34(1), pp.133-162.

• Financial Reporting and Detection of Labor Union Misconduct 

  • Solo-authored

  • The Accounting Review, 2026, Vol. 101 (4): 469-496

• Do Consumers Vote With Their Feet in Response to Negative ESG News? Evidence From Consumer Foot Traffic to Retail Locations

  • With Svenja Dube and Hye Seung (Grace) Lee

  • Journal of Accounting Research, 2026, Vol. 64 (4): 1819-1865

• Incidence, Risk, and Disclosure of Corporate Litigation: Insights from Federal Court Filings

  • With Mary Billings, Robert W. Holthausen, and Christine Petrovits

  • Forthcoming in  the Journal of Accounting Research

  • The data of the paper can be downloaded through the WRDS

• Lending Relationships Along Ownership Lines: Institutional Cross-Ownership and Bank Loan Contracts

  • With Zhiming Ma, Edward Owens, and Derrald Stice

  • Accepted at the Contemporary Accounting Research

• The Role of Litigation Finance in Firms’ Litigation Outcomes 

  • With Dain Donelson and Miranda Welbourne Eleazar

  • Corporate and Business Law Journal, Volume 7, Issue 2

Selected Working Papers

• Internal Control over Financial Reporting and Mortgage Fraud

  • With Yiwei Dou and Xi Wu

• Company-Investor Interactive Communication and Analysts’ Information Production

  • With Yifan Hou, Yanchao Wang, Jianyu Zhao

• Patent or Trade Secret? Generative AI, Innovation Protection, and Strategic Disclosure

  • With Tianshuo (Terrence) Shi, Charles Wang, and Yuxiang Zheng

• Curbing Hold-Up, Curtailing Innovation? Rent Allocation and Innovation in Standard-Setting Organizations

  • With Tianshuo (Terrence) Shi and Yuxiang Zheng