Research Interests

Government transparency, government contracting, government regulations

Publications

Proprietary Information Cost of Contracting with the Government (with Kevin Li, Ningzhong Li, and Weining Zhang)

• The Accounting Review (2024) 99 (2): 195–227 

• Best Paper Award, 2021 American Accounting Association Annual Meeting GNP Section 

Is There a Confidence Interval for That? A Critical Examination of Null Outcome Reporting in Accounting Research (with Bill Cready, Wenwei Lin, Chendao Shao, Di Wang, and Yang Zhang)

• Behavioral Research in Accounting (2022) 34 (1): 43–72

Working Papers

The Effect of Government Transparency on Corporate Tax Avoidance: Evidence from State Freedom of Information Laws (with Grace Gu, Ying Huang, and Ningzhong Li)

The Role of Federal Agency Accounting Quality in Federal Budget Allocation (with Ningzhong Li)

Materiality Uncertainty and Corporate Disclosure (with Ying Huang, Ningzhong Li, Jieying Zhang, and Sheryl Zhou)

Auditing Government Contractors (with Ningzhong Li and Jieying Zhang)