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Faculty Overview

We have more than 110 full-time faculty whose cutting-edge, high-quality research is regularly published in top-tier economics and management journals such as American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Management Science, Journal of Finance, Academy of Management Journal, etc. Our faculty have played an important role in China's policymaking, and they are strong advocates of China's market-oriented reforms and innovative business practices. They are trusted partners of entrepreneurs, CEOs, and public figures; and their work has been recognized with top national research awards for making contributions to China's development.

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World-class Research

Guanghua faculty regularly have their research on topics of international impact published in leading journals across the fields of economics, finance, management, and statistics, among others. In 2016-2022, our faculty had 2938 articles accepted for publication, of which 755 were published in SCI/SSCI journals.

A sample list of recent publications in leading academic journals:

  • 2022
  • 2021
  • 2020

Hu, Danqi; Andrew Stephan. 2022, News at the Bell and a Level Playing Field, Accounting Review, 97(6), 357-384.

Hsu, Charles; Xi Li; Zhiming Ma; Gordon M. Phillips. 2022, Does Industry Competition Influence Analyst Coverage Decisions and Career Outcomes? Journal of Financial & Quantitative Analysis, forthcoming.

Lu, Ruichang; Qiaowei Shen; Tenghui Wang; Xiaojun Zhang. 2022, Frenemies: Corporate Advertising Under Common Ownership, Management Science, 68(6), 4645-4669.

Zhiming Ma; Kirill E. Novoselov; Derrald Stice; Yue Zhang. 2022, Firm Innovation and Covenant Tightness, Review of Accounting Studies, forthcoming.

Li, Jing; Tingjun Liu; Ran Zhao. 2022, Strategic Nondisclosure in Takeovers. The Accounting Review, 97(4):345-370.

Andreas Hefti; Shuo Liu; Armin Schmutzler. 2022, Preferences, Confusion and Competition, Economic Journal, 132(645): 1852.

Vernon Henderson; Dongling Su; Qinghua Zhang; Siqi Zheng. 2022, Political Manipulation of Urban Land Markets: Evidence from China, Journal of Public Economics, 214: 104730.

Miao Jin; Yu-Jane Liu; Juanjuan Meng; Yu Zhang. 2022, Transmission of Income Variations to Consumption Variations: The Role of the Firm, Review of Economics and Statistics, 1-45.

Shuo Liu; Dimitri Migrow. 2022, When does Centralization Undermine Adaptation?, Journal of Economic Theory, 205: 105533.

Zeyang Chen; Yu-Jane Liu; Juanjuan Meng; Zeng Wang. 2022, What's in a Face? An Experiment on Facial Information and Loan-Approval Decision, Management Science, forthcoming.

Anselm Hager; Johannes Hermle; Lukas Hensel; Christopher Roth. 2022, Political Activists as Free-Riders: Evidence From a Natural Field Experiment, Conditionally accepted by Economic Journal.

Chen, SX; Guo, B. and Qiu, YM. 2022, Testing and Signal Identification for Two-sample High-dimensional Covariances via Multi-level Thresholding, Journal of Econometrics, 38(01), 196-207.

Yacine Aït-Sahalia; Chenxu Li; Chen Xu Li. 2022, Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Latent Markov Models Using Closed-Form Approximations, Journal of Econometrics, forthcoming.

Chenchen Ma; Yundong Tu. 2022, Group Fused LASSO for Large Factor Models with Multiple Structural Changes, Journal of Econometrics, forthcoming.

Tu, Yundong; Liang, Han-Ying; Wang, Qiying. 2022, Nonparametric Inference for Quantile Cointegrations with Stationary Covariates, Journal of Econometrics, 230(2), 453-482.

Zhao, Junlong; Liu, Xiumin; Wang, Hansheng; Leng, Chenlei. 2022, Dimension Reduction for Covariates in Network Data, Biometrika, 109(1), 85-102.

Yinglu Deng; Li Liao; Jiaheng Yu; Yu Zhang. 2022, Capital Spillover, House Prices, and Consumer Spending: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from House Purchase Restrictions, Review of Financial Studies, 35(6): 3060-3099.

Sheng Huang; Ruichang Lu; Anand Srinivasan. 2022, Bank Dependence and Bank Financing in Corporate M&A, Management Science, 68(3): 2250-2283.

Ruichang Lu; Qiaowei Shen; Tenghui Wang; Xiaojun Zhang. 2022, Frenemies: Corporate Advertising Under Common Ownership, Management Science, 68(6): 4645-4669.

Miao Jin; Yu-Jane Liu; Juanjuan Meng; Yu Zhang. 2022, The Transmission of Income Variations to Consumption Variations: The Role of the Firm, Review of Economics and Statistics, 1-45.

Jeremy Greenwood; Pengfei Han; Juan M. Sanchez. 2022, Financing Ventures, International Economic Review, 63(3): 1021-1053.

Zeyang Chen; Yu-Jane Liu; Juanjuan Meng; Zeng Wang. 2022, What's in a Face? An Experiment on Facial Information and Loan-Approval Decision, Management Science, forthcoming.

Zhibing Li, Laura Xiaolei Liu, Xiaoyu Liu, K.C. John Wei, 2022, Replicating and Digesting Anomalies in the Chinese A-share Market, Management Science, forthcoming.

Lu, Ruichang; Shen, Qiaowei; Wang, Tenghui; Zhang, Xiaojun. 2022, Frenemies: Corporate Advertising Under Common Ownership, Management Science, 68:(6)4645-4669.

Xu, Minzhe; Zhihao Yu; and Yanping Tu. I Will Get a Reward, Too: When Disclosing the Referrer Reward Increases Referring, Journal Of Marketing Research, forthcoming.

Wang, Yajin.; Xu, Alison Jing.; Zhang, Ying. L'Art Pour l'Art: Experiencing Art Reduces the Desire for Luxury Goods, Journal Of Consumer Research, forthcoming.

Haidong Li; Henry Lam; Yijie Peng. 2022, Efficient Learning for Clustering and Optimizing Context-Dependent Designs, Operations Research, forthcoming.

Lu, Tao; Yuan, May; Wang, Chong (Alex); Zhang, Xiaoquan (Michael). 2022, Histogram Distortion Bias in Consumer Choices, Management Science, forthcoming.

Linna Xu; Zhi Liu; Ming Ji; Yuntao Dong; Chia-Huei Wu. Leader perfectionism—friend or foe of employee creativity? Locus of control as a key contingency, Academy of Management Journal, 2022.

Yuyu Chen, Mitsuru Igami, Masayuki Sawada, and Mo Xiao. Privatization and Productivity in China. The RAND Journal of Economics 52.4.(2021): 884-916.

Xiaoyong Cui, Liutang Gong, and Wenjian Li. Supply-Side Optimal Capital Taxation with Endogenous Wage Inequality. Journal of Public Economics 198 (2021): 104421.

Chen, Song Xi; Peng, Liuhua. Distributed Statistical Inference for Massive Data[J]. Annals of Statistics. 2021,5(49):2851-2869.

Qiao Liu, Qiaowei Shen, Zhenghua Li, Shu Chen. Stimulating Consumption at Low Budget: Evidence from a Large-Scale Policy Experiment Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic. Management Science, 2021, 67(12): 7291-7307.

Miao Jin, Yu-Jane Liu, Juanjuan Meng, Yu Zhang. The Transmission of Income Inequality to Consumption Inequality: the Role of Firms. The Review of Economics and Statistics, Forthcoming.

Gai, Phyliss Jia; Puntoni, Stefano. Language and Consumer Dishonesty: A Self-Diagnosticity Theory. Journal of Consumer Research, 2021, 48(2):333-351.

Li, Hui; Shen, Qiaowei; Bart, Yakov . Dynamic Resource Allocation on Multi-Category Two-Sided Platforms. Management Science, 2021, 67(2): 984-1003.

Ji, Junkang; Huang, Zhi; Li, Qi. Guilt and Corporate Philanthropy: the Case of the Privatization in China. Academy of Management Journal, 2021-12.

Ke, Bin; Zhang Xiaojun; Does Public Enforcement Work in Weak Investor Protection Countries? Evidence from China. Contemporary Accounting Research, Forthcoming.

Li, Congcong; Lin An-Ping; Lu Hai; Veenstra Kevin J. Gender and Beauty in the Financial Analyst Profession: Evidence from the United States and China. Review of Accounting Studies, 2020,6(25):1230-1262.

Ma, Zhiming; Lufei Ruan; Danye Wang; Haiyan Zhang; Generalist CEOs and Credit Ratings. Contemporary Accounting Research, Forthcoming.

Zhou, Li-An; Yi Chen; Ziying Fan; Xiaomin Gu; Arrival of Young Talent: The Send-down Movement and Rural Education in China; American Economic Review; forthcoming

Hefti, Andreas; Liu, Shuo; Targeted information and limited attention; Rand Journal Of Economics 51(2): 402-420, 2020

Ma, Yingying; Pan, Rui; Zou, Tao; Wang, Hansheng(2020), A naive least squares method for spatial autoregression with covariates, Statistica Sinica, 30(2):653-672.

Ren, TN; Wang, FF; Wang, HS(2020), A sequential naive bayes method for music genre classification based on transitional information from pitch and beat, Statistics and its Interface, 13(3):361-371.

Xu, K; Sun, LP; Liu, J; Zhu, XN; Wang, HS(2020), A spatial autoregression model with time-varying coefficients, Statistics and its Interface, 13(2):261-270.

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