Research Interests

Corporate Disclosure, Information Processing, Capital Markets

Publications

• Marijuana Liberalization and Public Finance: A Capital Market Perspective on the Passage of Medical Use Laws, with Stephanie F. Cheng and Gus De Franco, 2023, Journal of Accounting and Economics.  

• “High” Innovators? Marijuana Legalization and Regional Innovation, with Stephanie F. Cheng, Yinliang (Ricky) Tan, and Yuchen Zhang, 2023, Production and Operations Management.

• Riding the Blockchain Mania: Public Firms’ Speculative 8-K Disclosures, with Stephanie F. Cheng, Gus De Franco, and Haibo Jiang, 2019, Management Science.

Working Papers

Technology and Information Processing

• Breaking the Language Barriers? Machine Translation Technology and Analysts’ Forecasts for Multinational Firms, with Bingxu Fang.

• Algorithm Access for All: Information Processing Democratization via GitHub, with Stephanie F. Cheng, Richard M. Crowley, and Yuan Zhao.

• Does Generative AI Facilitate Investor Trading? Evidence from ChatGPT Outages, with Qiang Cheng and Yue Zhao.

Corporate Disclosure, Information Flow, and Information Processing

• Do Emotions Affect Audit Practice? Terrorist Attacks and Accounting Misstatements (Solo-authored).

• Prompting Information Acquisition as a Newswire Journalist: Evidence from Newswire Stories around Earnings Announcements, with Jeremiah Green and Nina Xu.

• Attention to Detail: How Do Information Users Process Exhibits in Form 10-K?, with Stephanie F. Cheng and Yimeng Li.

• The Primacy Effect in Information Acquisition: Evidence from 10-K Exhibits, with Stephanie F. Cheng and Yimeng Li.