Contact: xuyp36@mail.sysu.edu.cn

Research Areas: Auditing; Corporate Governance; Corporate Reporting & Disclosure

 

 

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

Sun Yat-sen University

Associated Professor   2024.05-present

 

Jinan University

Associate Professor of Accounting   2019.10-2023.12 

Assistant Professor of Accounting   2016.07-2019.09

 

Singapore Management University

Research Assistant   2014.11-2015.07

Research Assistant   2013.08-2014.04

 

EDUCATION  

Tsinghua University, School of Economics and Management   PhD in Accounting   2011-2016

Jilin University, School of Business   Bachelor in Accounting   2007-2011

Singapore Management University   Research Assistant   2013-2015

 

RESEARCH INTEREST

Auditing; Corporate Governance; Corporate Reporting & Disclosure

 

PUBLICATIONS

“Just Friends? Managers’ Connections to Judges”, with Sterling Huang, Sugata Roychowdhury and Ewa Sletten

Journal of Accounting Research 2024 accepted

 

“Tax Knowledge Diffusion through Shared Audit Partners: Evidence from China” with Chee Yeow Lim, Terry Shevlin and Kun Wang

Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance 2023 forthcoming

 

“Information Sharing between Mutual Funds and Auditors” with Ole-Kristian Hope, Pingui Rao and Heng Yue

Journal of Business, Finance and Accounting 2023, 50(1-2): 152-197

 

“The Contagion Effects of Failed Individual Audit Partners: Evidence from an Audit Client Market” with Ferdinand A. Gul, Chee Yeow Lim and Kun Wang

Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory 2023, 42(1): 53-74

 

“Minimum Wages and Corporate Tax Avoidance” with Xiaoxi Li and Chee Yeow Lim

Accounting and Business Research 2022: 1-37

 

“The Impact of Revealing Auditor Partner Quality: Evidence from a Long Panel” with C. S. Agnes Cheng, Kun Wang and Ning Zhang  

Review of Accounting Studies 2020, 25:1475-1506

 

“Stock Price Contagion Effects of Low-Quality Audits at the Individual Audit Partner Level” with Ferdinand A. Gul, Chee Yeow Lim and Kun Wang

Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory 2019, 38(2): 151-178

 

“Marital Status and Earnings Management” with Gilles Hilary and Sterling Huang

European Accounting Review 2017, 26(1): 153-158.

 

 

GRANTS AND AWARDS

Information Transfer by Auditor Network –Evidence from Mutual  2018-2021

Funds (NSFC Grant No. 71802092, Grant Amount RMB 180,000)

 

Management and Auditing of Local Governments’ Debt (Guangdong 2022-2023

 Province Philosophy and Social Science Grant No. GD22SJZ02,

Grant Amount RMB 50,000)

 

TEACHING

Financial Analysis; Auditing

 

SERVICES

Journal Reviewer

European Accounting Review

Emerging Markets Finance and Trade

Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics

Management World (in Chinese)

NSFC reviewer