Shao, Xinyuan(邵辛元)

Biography

Prof. Xinyuan Shao is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Business School. He joined CUHK in 2023 after receiving PhD degree from The University of Minnesota. His research interest is broadly on the real effects of accounting.

Teaching Areas

Financial Accounting
Taxation

Research Interests

Real Effects of Accounting Standards
Innovation and Information Economics
Supply Chain Information Sharing

Liu, Yichang(劉一唱)

Biography

Prof. Liu is an assistant professor of accounting at CUHK Business School. He teaches intermediate financial accounting for the undergraduate programme. His research focuses on the role of investment advisers in capital markets and the effect of financial regulations on firm’s reporting practices. He received a PhD in accounting from the University of Minnesota, and master’s and bachelor’s degrees from Tsinghua University.

Teaching Areas

Financial Accounting

Research Interests

Investment Advisers
Social Media
Financial Regulations
Capital Markets

Tseng, Kevin(曾俊凱)

Biography

Professor Kevin Tseng is an Associate Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Business School. He previously taught at the National Taiwan University (NTU) as the EMBA Alumni Elite Chair and the Chen-Yung Outstanding Scholar. Before joining NTU, he was a Financial Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond and an Assistant Professor at the University of Kansas’ School of Business.

Professor Tseng has a broad research interest. He has published in the areas of knowledge spillover, asset pricing, disclosure, innovation, corporate finance, and behavioral economics. His articles have appeared in leading scholarly journals, including The Journal of Finance, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Review of Financial Studies, The Accounting Review, Management Science, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Contemporary Accounting Research, and the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy. In 2022, he received the MOST Outstanding Research Award; in 2015, he received the WFA Cubist Systematic Strategies PhD Candidate Award for Outstanding Research.

Teaching Areas

Valuation
Financial Statement Analysis

Research Interests

Information Disclosure
Asset Pricing
Innovation
Corporate Finance
Behavioral Economics

  • Awards & Honours
    • MOST Outstanding Research Award, 2022
    • Early-Career Investigator Research Achievement Award, Academia Sinica, 2022
    • Young Researcher Award, Taiwan Econometrics Society, 2022
    • Young Researcher Award, Taiwan Risk and Insurance Association, 2022
    • E. Sun Academic Award, E.SUN FHC & National Taiwan University, 2021-2023
    • Best Paper Award, TFA Annual Meeting, 2018, 2020-2022
    • Best Paper Award, Management and Practice Conference, 2021
    • Chen-Yung Outstanding Scholar, National Taiwan University, 2020
    • EMBA Alumni Elite Chair, National Taiwan University, 2020
    • Best Paper Award Semifinalist, Financial Management Association (FMA) Annual Meeting, 2018-2019, 2023 (*2)
    • Best Paper Award, Asian Finance Association (Asian FA), 2016
    • Ph.D. Candidate Award for Outstanding Research, Western Finance Association (WFA), 2015
    • PhD Forum Best Paper Award Second Prize, Australasian Finance and Banking Conference (AFBC), 2014
  • Academic/Professional Services
    • Ad-Hoc Referee, Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Contemporary Accounting Research, Research Policy, Review of Corporate Finance Studies, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance
    • Organising Committee, 2019 TFA Asset Pricing
    • Programme Committee, Northern Finance Association (NFA), Financial Management Association (FMA), Financial Management Association Asia/Pacific (FMA Asia), Southern Finance Association (SFA)

Zhang, Qi(張琪)

Biography

Prof. Zhang Qi is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). His research is primarily focused on corporate disclosure, machine learning, and corporate sustainability. He received his PhD and MSc degrees from Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, and BA from the Central University of Finance and Economics.

Teaching Areas

Accounting Data Analytics

Research Interests

Corporate Disclosure and Regulation
Machine Learning and Data Science
Environmental, Social, and Governance

He, Jiapeng(何佳鵬)

Biography

Prof. Jiapeng He is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Business School. He joined CUHK in 2023 after receiving his PhD degree from The University of Texas at Dallas. He also holds BBA and BA degrees from Xiamen University. He is broadly interested in archival accounting research. Currently, his research focuses on government-related topics in accounting and auditing.

Teaching Areas

Financial Accounting

Research Interests

Government Transparency
Government Contracting
Supply Chain
Auditing

  • Awards & Honours
    • Best Paper Award, American Accounting Association Annual Meeting Government and Nonprofit Section, 2021

Chen, Jun(陳軍)

Biography

Prof. Jun Chen is an Assistant Professor at the CUHK Business School. His research interests lie in corporate finance, financial accounting, and household finance. His latest projects have focused on the real effects of information in financial markets. He received his PhD in Finance and MFin degrees from Rady School of Management of the University of California San Diego, and BS in Mathematics from Peking University.

Teaching Areas

Data Analytics
Machine Learning

Research Interests

Corporate Finance
Financial Accounting
Household Finance

Koo, Minjae(具敏載)

Biography

Prof. Minjae Koo is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She earned her bachelors’ degrees in Humanities and Business Administration and masters’ degree in Accounting from Seoul National University, and PhD in Accounting from the University of Houston. She is primarily interested in financial archival research, in the areas of capital markets, financial intermediaries, and fair valuation. She has teaching experience in cost accounting.

Teaching Areas

Financial Accounting
Management Accounting
Cost Accounting

Research Interests

Capital Markets
Financial Intermediaries
Fair Valuation

  • Publications and Working Papers
    • Minjae Koo and Volkan Muslu (2023), “Fund Flows and Asset Valuations of Bond Mutual Funds: Effect of Side-by-Side Management,” Journal of Banking and Finance, accepted for publication.
    • Minjae Koo, Shiva Sivaramakrishnan and Yuping Zhao (2023), “Third-Party Source Switches: Objective Valuation or Fair Value Opinion Shopping?” The Accounting Review, accepted and forthcoming.
    • Hyunkwon Cho, Minjae Koo, and Volkan Muslu (2020), “Lost in Translation? Analysts’ Forecasts of Cross-Listed Firms,” The Journal of International Accounting Research, 19(2), 41-64.

Zhao, Meiling(趙美玲)

Biography

Prof. Meiling Zhao is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received her PhD in accounting from The University of Arizona. Her primary research interests relate to both financial accounting and auditing, with a focus on information intermediaries, corporate disclosure, regulation, and auditing.

Teaching Areas

Auditing
Financial and Managerial Accounting

Research Interests

Auditing
Information Intermediaries
Corporate Disclosure
Regulation

  • Publications & Working Papers
    • Mei Cheng, Yuan Zhang, and Meiling Zhao (2023), “The Role of Equity Underwriters in Shaping Corporate Disclosure,” Review of Accounting Studies.
  • Awards & Honours
    • Best Midyear Meeting Doctoral Student Paper Award (AMYM), 2023
    • FARS Excellence in Reviewing Award, American Accounting Association, 2021

Zhou, Yuqing(周雨晴)

Biography

Prof. Yuqing Zhou joined The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Business School in 2022 as an Assistant Professor. Her primary research interest focuses on the real economic effects of accounting. She seeks to conduct theory-based empirical research and link accounting issues to international trade and the labor market. She is also interested in voluntary disclosure. She received her PhD in Economics from Michigan State University, PhD in Accounting from UCLA Anderson, and BA in Finance from Peking University.

Teaching Areas

Financial Accounting

Research Interests

Real Economic Effects of Accounting
Accounting and labour Market
Accounting and International Trade
Voluntary Disclosure

  • Publications & Working Papers

    Publications

    • Todd Elder, Yuqing Zhou (2021), “The Black-White Gap in Non-Cognitive Skills among Elementary School Children,” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 13(1), 105-32.
    • Frank Zhou, Yuqing Zhou (2020), “The Dog that Didn’t Bark: Limited Price Efficiency and Strategic Nondisclosure,” Journal of Accounting Research, 58(1), 155-197.

    Working Papers

    • Yuqing Zhou, Christos Makridis, “Financial Misconduct, Corporate Culture Reputation Damage and Changes in Employee Satisfaction”.
    • Yuqing Zhou, “Financial Reporting Quality and International Trade”.

Geng, Victor Lingfeng(耿凌峰)

Biography

Prof. Victor Geng is an Assistant Professor of School of Accountancy at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Business School. Prior to joining CUHK in 2022, he received his BCom degree from the University of Queensland, and his MS and PhD degree from Cornell University. His research interests revolve around different forms of corporate disclosures and their influences on capital markets and on corporate governance.

Teaching Areas

Financial Accounting

Research Interests

Corporate Disclosure
Capital Markets
Short Selling
Corporate Social Responsibility