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Jingwen Yang

Jingwen Yang

PhD Candidate in Accounting & Information Assurance

Master of Accounting, University of Michigan

Contact

240-758-4570

Jingwen Yang is a fourth-year PhD candidate at the Smith School of Business. She earned her Master of Accounting from the University of Michigan. Before returning to graduate school for her doctoral study, Yang worked as a consultant at PwC (Singapore office). Yang's research focuses on voluntary disclosures, auditing, and the intersection between accounting and labor economics.

Selected Awards & Honors

  • Deloitte Doctoral Foundation Fellowship, 2023
  • National Scholarship, 2017
  • HKICPA Scholarship, 2016

Selected Research

“Disclosing Work-From-Home Flexibility to Compete for Talent? Evidence from Job Postings” with Charles Ham, Rebecca Hann, and Wenfeng Wang, 2023.

“Do Firms Learn about the External Environment through their Auditors' Client Exposures? Evidence from Management Forecasts” with Michael Kimbrough, 2023.

“The Price of an Accountant Shortage: Evidence from Job Vacancy Duration and Internal Control Weaknesses” with Rebecca Hann and Yue Zheng, 2023.

“Show Me the Money! Does Salary Disclosure Reduce Information Frictions in the IT Labor Market?” with Il-Horn Hann, Rebecca Hann, Sung Hyun Kwon, 2023.

“Does Going Public Allow Employees to “Vote with their Feet” in Response to Reported Earnings?” with Yue Fang, Ivy Feng, Michael Kimbrough, 2023.

“Tech Directors and Firm Innovation: Benefits, Costs, and Copycats” with Anna Brown, Jin Choi, and Emanuel Zur, 2022.

Conference Presentations

  • The 2024 FARS Midyear Meeting, CO (presenter x2)
  • The 2024 Audit Midyear Meeting, LA (presenter)
  • The 2023 Workshop on Information Systems and Economics, India (coauthor presenter)
  • The 2023 HKUST Accounting Symposium, Hong Kong (coauthor presenter)
  • The 2023 SMU Accounting Symposium, Singapore (coauthor presenter)
  • The 2023 PCAOB Conference in Auditing and Capital Markets, DC (presenter)
  • The 2023 University of Georgia Fall Accounting Symposium, GA (coauthor presenter)
  • The 2023 MIT Asia Conference, Singapore (coauthor presenter)
  • The 2023 AAA Annual Meeting, CO (presenter and discussant)
  • The 2023 NC State Risk Governance Research Symposium, NC (coauthor presenter)
  • The 2023 FARS Midyear Meeting, Phoenix, AZ
  • The 2022 Haskayne and Fox Accounting Conference, University of Calgary (coauthor presenter)
  • The 2022 Labor and Accounting Conference, Washington University (presenter)
  • The 2021 Labor and Accounting Conference, Stanford University (coauthor presenter)

Insights

Labor Market Competition Plays A Huge Role in Remote Work

Smith Researchers Find Peer Pressure Among Companies Determines Firms’ Work-From-Home Strategy

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