Selected Active Working Papers

• “Scoping the Frontier: Accounting Research on Cryptocurrency and Blockchain,” with Vivian Fang, 2025.

• “Decoding Risk: Neural Topic Modeling of Corporate Risk Disclosures and Expected Returns,” with Rongyang Ma and Haifeng You, 2025.

• “Social Media Livestreaming: Investor Information or Persuasion?,” with Ed deHaan, Srijith Kannan, and Lu Qiu, 2025.

• “When Disaster Strikes: How Climate Events Influence Employment Preferences,” with Yiyuan Wang, Yue Zheng, and Yuqing Zhou, 2025.
  • Winner of the Best Paper award at the 2025 CAPANA Conference
  • Winner of the Best Paper award, First Prize 2024 New Silk Road Accounting Forum

• “The Determinants and Consequences of Financial Thresholds in Credit Ratings,” with Bugra Ozel and Shiheng Wang, 2025.

• “Investor Relations for the Rest of Us: Engaging with Retail Investors,” with Jin Kyung, Lu Qiu, and Yue Zheng, 2025.

• “Lenders’ Soft Information Acquisition and Loan Contracting,” with Xinlei Li and Xiangyu Li, 2025.

• “The Effects of Regulatory Enforcement Disclosure: Evidence from OSHA’s Press Release about Safety Violations,” with Michael Shen, Chao Tang, and Juanting Wang, 2025.

• “Communicating Corporate Culture in Labor Markets: Evidence from Job Postings,” with Joseph Pacelli, Terrence Shi, and Yuan Zou, 2025.

• “Judge Ideology and Corporate Tax Planning,” with Travis Chow, Kai Wai Hui, and Terry Shevlin, 2025.

• “From Mining to Meaning: How Do Decentralized IT Infrastructure Platforms Respond to Environmental Sustainability Concerns?” with Siyuan Jin, Kar Yan Tam and Zitong Li, 2025.