Sean Wang

Sean Wang is a visiting assistant professor of accounting at the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University, and teaches financial statement analysis and valuation in the MBA for professionals program, as well as financial statement analysis in the Masters of Accounting program. His research focuses on how investors impound information into stock prices, and how and when they may make mistakes during this price discovery process. Sean earned his PhD in accounting from Cornell University in 2009. His research has been published in top academic journals including the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial & Quantitative Analysis, and Journal of Accounting Research.

Previously, Sean taught Applied Valuation, Corporate Finance, and Intermediate Accounting at the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School. He received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Duke University, and also holds master’s degrees in business administration from New York University and in biochemistry from University of South Florida.
 

Intellectual Contributions:

Ham, C., N. Seybert and S. Wang, (2017), Narcissism is a Bad Sign: CEO Signature Size, Investment, and Performance. Review of Accounting Studies, forthcoming.

Ham, C., M. Lang, N. Seybert and S. Wang, (2017), CFO Narcissism and Financial Reporting Quality. Journal of Accounting Research, forthcoming.

Engelberg, J., A. Ozoguz and S. Wang (2017). Know Thy Neighbor: Industry Clusters, Information Spillovers and Market Efficiency. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, forthcoming.

So, E.C. and S. Wang (2014). News-driven return reversals: Liquidity provision ahead of earnings announcements, Journal of Financial Economics, 114, 20-35.

Van Wesep, E., and S. Wang (2014). The Prevention of Excess Managerial Risk Taking. Journal of Corporate Finance, 29, 579-593.

Teaching Interests: 

• Financial Accounting
• Financial Reporting
• Financial Statement Analysis
• Valuation

Research Interests: 

• Financial reporting quality
• CEO and CFO Decision Making
• Behavioral Finance
• Valuation
• Information asymmetry
• Information Intermediaries