Qi Chen

Teaching / Research Interests

Financial Statement Analysis; Managerial Accounting; Analytical Accounting Research; Information Economics; Corporate Governance and Corporate Finance

Bio

Professor Chen''s research interests lie in the intersections between economics, finance and accounting, with a focus on the role of information and incentives in financial markets and within firms, including the effect of information on firms’ investment decisions, the role of incentive on accounting systems, corporate governance, and security analysts’ behaviors. His recent research has examined the effects of bank mergers in firms’ disclosure behaviors, and the effects of China’s split share structure reform and of China’s bank market development on Chinese companies’ financial policies and performance.

His research has been published in leading finance and accounting journals, including Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Accounting Research and Journal of Accounting and Economics. He teaches Financial Statement Analysis and Analytical Accounting PhD seminar. He holds a PhD and an MBA degree from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago, an MA in economics from University of Maryland at College Park and a BA in economics from Wuhan University in China.

Journal Publications

1. Chen, Qi, Z. Huang, X. Jiang, G. Zhang, and Y. Zhang, 2021, Asymmetric Reporting Timeliness and Informational Feedback, Management Science
2. Chen, Qi, X. Jiang, and Y. Zhang, 2019, The Effects of Audit Quality Disclosure on Audit Effort and Investment Efficiency, The Accounting Review
3. Chen, Qi and R. Vashishtha, 2017, The Effects of Bank Mergers on Corporate Information Disclosure, Journal of Accounting & Economics
4. Chen, Qi, T. Lewis, K. Schipper, and Y. Zhang, 2017, Uniform vs. Discretionary Regime in Reporting Information with Unverifiable Precision and a Coordination Role, Journal of Accounting Research
5. Chen, Qi, S. Dikolli, and W. Jiang, 2015, Career-Risk Concerns, Information Effort, and Optimal Pay-for-Performance Sensitivity, Journal of Management Accounting Research
6. Chen, Qi, Z Huang, and Y Zhang, 2014, The Effects of Public Information with Asymmetrically Informed Short-horizon Investors, Journal of Accounting Research
7. Chen Qi, Xiao Chen, Katherine Schipper, Yongxin Xu, and Jian Xue, 2012, The Sensitivity of Cash Holdings to Corporate Governance, The Review of Financial Studies
8. Chen, Qi, T Hemmer, and Y Zhang, 2011, On the Use of Loose Monitoring in Agencies, Review of Accounting Studies
9. Chen, Qi, B Mittendorf, and Y Zhang, 2010, Endogenous Accounting Bias when Decision Making and Control Interact, Contemporary Accounting Research
10. Chen, Qi, I Goldstein, and W Jiang, 2010, Payoff Complementarities and Financial Fragility: Evidence from Mutual Fund Outflows, Journal of Financial Economics
11. Chen, Qi, I Goldstein, and W Jiang, 2008, Directors’ Ownership in the U.S. Mutual Fund Industry, The Journal of Finance
12. Chen, Qi, T Hemmer, and Y Zhang, 2007, On the Relation Between Conservatism in Accounting Standards and Incentives for Earnings Management, Journal of Accounting Research
13. Chen, Qi, and W Jiang, 2007, Price Informativeness and Investment Sensitivity to Stock Price, The Review of Financial Studies
14. Chen, Qi, and Wei Jiang, 2006, Analysts’ Weighting of Private and Public Information, The Review of Financial Studies
15. Chen, Qi, Jennifer Francisa, and Wei Jiang, 2005, Investors Learning About Analyst Predictive Ability, Journal of Accounting & Economics
16. Bushmana, Robert, Qi Chen, Ellen Engelc, and Abbie Smithc, 2004, Financial Accounting Information, Organization Complexity and Corporate Governance, Journal of Accounting & Economics
17. Chen, Qi, and Wei Jiang, 2004, Positive Hurdle Rates Without Asymmetric Information, Finance Research Letters
18. Chen, Qi, 2003, Cooperation in the Budgeting Process, Journal of Accounting Research