Personal Profile
Shenzhen Audencia Financial Technology Institute
Shenzhen University
Shenzhen, China
Education Experience
PhD, Accounting, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Sep. 2003– Dec. 2008
BA, Accounting, Shandong University, China, Sep. 1998– Jul. 2002
Teaching Interests
Financial Accounting, Financial Analysis, Management Accounting, Cost Accounting, Accounting Theory, Corporate Finance, Mergers &Acquisitions, Corporate Governance, Fintech
Research Interests
(*indicates corresponding author)
1. Who Shall Succeed? An Examination of Manager Overconfidence and CEO Selection, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting 49, p1736-1783, 2022, (with Wilson Tong) *
·Short-listed for the Best Paper on the 2013 American Financial Management
Association (FMA) Asian Conference in Shanghai, China
2. Changes in the Incentive Contracts of Takeover Targets after Merger Failures, Journal of Accounting Auditing and Finance 37, p143-172, 2022, (with Peter Cheng & Wilson Tong) *
3. Information Uncertainty and Target Valuation in Mergers and Acquisitions, Journal of Empirical Finance 45, p84-107, 2018, (with Wilson Tong) *
4. Target Information Asymmetry and Acquisition Price, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting 43, p976-1016, 2016, (with Peter Cheng & Wilson Tong) *
5. What Triggers the Top Management Changes in China? Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics 4, p50-87, 2008, (with Peter Cheng & Wilson Tong)
Working Papers
1. Persistency of Market-to-Book Ratio, Under Review, R&R, 2nd round, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2023, (with Peter Cheng, Wilson Tong, & Chingfu Tsai) *
2. CEO Turnovers Due to Poor Industry Performances: An Examination of the Boards’ Retention Criteria, R&R, 2nd round, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, 2023, (with Wilson Tong, Peter Lam, & Justin Law) *
3. Gains to Acquiring Firms Revisited: The Role of Free Cash Flow, Under Review, Journal of Corporate Finance, 2023, (with Wilson Tong & Peter Lam) *
4. CEO Overconfidence and TMT Diversity, Under Review, Strategic Management Journal, 2023, (with Jerayr Haleblian & Jun Xu)
5. How Do Acquirers Bid? A Test of Anchoring Effect in Serial Takeovers, Under review, Review of Finance, 2023, (with Yaru Ren) *
6. Manager Leveraged Buyout, Peer Firm Corporate Governance Improvement, and Institutional Environments, very preliminary draft, (with Zhe An, Donghui Li, & Chingfu Tsai)
7. The Spillover Effect of Cross-border Takeover: Law and Culture, very preliminary draft, (with Zhe An, Donghui Li, & Chingfu Tsai)
8. The Impacts of Fintech on Corporate Innovation and Political Connection, very preliminary draft, (with Yueqi Wang)
Research in Progress:
1. CEO Overconfidence, Network Centrality, and Corporate Investment, (Preliminary results got, with Jerayr Haleblian & Jun Xu)
2. CEO Overconfidence, Management Team Diversity, and Corporate Investment, (Preliminary results got, with Wilson Tong)
3. CEO Vision and Takeover: The Development of New Product and Entrance of New Market, (Data analysis, with Ping Hu) *
4. China’s Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions: Synergetic Gains or Capital Outflow?, (Data analysis, with Yaru Ren) *
Work Experience
Jan. 2017– Assistant Professor
Shenzhen Audencia Financial Technology Institute
Shenzhen University
Shenzhen, China
Audencia Business School
Nantes, France
Sep. 2009– Dec. 2016 Assistant Professor
School of Accounting and Finance
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hong Kong
Jan. 2009– Aug. 2009 Lecturer
School of Accounting and Finance
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hong Kong
