Baohua Xin

Bio

Baohua Xin is an Associate Professor of Accounting at Rotman. His research areas are information economics and capital markets. His recent work has been focused on how human brains process ambiguous and risky information, whether investors exhibit higher order reasoning in the presence of both fundamental and strategic uncertainties, and how accounting disclosure affects firm investment and the trust and trustworthiness among market players. He utilizes a combination of research methods in his research (analytical, archival, and experimental).

Academic Positions

2015-  Associate Professor (with tenure); Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

2008-2015  Assistant Professor (Conditional 2007); Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

Honors and Awards

2017-2021  Insight Grant (Principal Investigator); The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

2015-2017  Research Grant; Canadian Academic Accounting Association

2011-2015  Standard Research Grants (Co-Investigator), with F. Wong; The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

2010-2014  Standard Research Grant (Principal Investigator), with Callen and Chen; The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

2013-2015  CAAA/CGA Research Grant; Canadian Academic Accounting Association

2012-2014  Steve Berlin/CITGO Grant; American Accounting Association

2008-2014  Excellence in Teaching Award; Rotman School of Management

Selected Publications - Papers

The Effect of Financial Reporting Quality on Corporate Investment Efficiency: Evidence from the Adoption of SFAS No. 123R With Dou, and Wong Management Science

Accounting Discretion and the Informativeness of Voluntary Disclosure with Jiang 2018

Insider Trading: Does Being a Neighbor of the SEC Matter? with Hu and Wang Managerial and Decision Economics 2017

Uniform Accounting Measurement: a Common Understanding with Shields 2017

Accounting Conservatism and Performance Covenants: a Signaling Approach With Callen, Chen, and Dou Contemporary Accounting Research 2016

Financial Statement Comparability and Debt Contracting: Evidence from the Syndicated Loans with Fang, Li, and Zhang Accounting Horizons 2016

Timeliness of Analysts' Forecasts: The Information Content of Delayed Forecasts with Shroff and Venkataraman Contemporary Accounting Research 2014

Human Economic Choice as Costly Information Processing With Dichhaut, Rustichini and Smith Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 2013

Market Efficiencies and Drift: a Computational Model with Dickhaut The Accounting Review 2009

Research and Teaching Interests

Research Interests: Information Economics; Experimental Economics; Accounting Disclosure and Regulation. Teaching Interests: Financial Accounting; Managerial Accounting.