Research Interests

·  Financial Reporting

·  International Accounting

·  Corporate Governance

·  Corporate Social Responsibility

Publications

·  "The Impacts of Product Market Competition on the Quantity and Quality of Voluntary Disclosures", September 2010, Review of Accounting Studies, Vol. 15, Iss. 3, pp. 663-711.  [SSRN]
Winner of Best Paper Award at the 2009 Review of Accounting Studies Conference and the 2008 Transatlantic Doctoral Conference

 

·  "Ownership Structure and Corporate Diversification" (with Yi Zhang), 2006, Business and Politics, Vol. 8, Article 4: Iss. 1, Article 4.


Working Papers

·  "Corporate Governance and Restrictions in Debt Contracts"  [SSRN]
     (with Irem Tuna and Florin Vasvari)

 

·  "Active Owership"  [SSRN]
     (with Elroy Dimson and Oguzhan Karakas)
Winner of 2012 Moskowitz Prize for Socially Responsible Investing [Link][Press Release]
Recipient of 2009 French SIR Research Grant and 2008 INQUIRE Europe Research Grant

 

·  "Mandatory Disclosure Reform and Executive Compensation: Is CFO Pay Higher after the Mandatory Adoption of IFRS?" [SSRN]
     (with Steve Balsam, Elizabeth Gordon, and Emmeli Runesson)

 

·  "Effect of Mandatory IFRS Adoption on Usage of Accounting Information in Debt Contracts" 
     (with Ray Ball and Lakshmanan Shivakumar)

 

·  "Mandatory vs. Voluntary Management Forecasts in China" [SSRN]
     (with Xiaobei Huang, Senyo Tse, and Jennifer Wu Tucker)

 

·  "Mandatory Financial Reporting Environment and Voluntary Disclosure: Evidence from Mandatory IFRS Adoption" [SSRN]  
     (with Karthik Balakrishnan and Holly Yang)
Featured at Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation [Link]

 

·  "Accounting Conservatism and the Cost of Capital: International Analysis"  [SSRN]


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About Me

Curriculum Vitae [PDF]

My SSRN Author Page




Contact Details

Email: xili@temple.edu

Tel: 1-215-204-4231

Fax: 1-215-204-5587

Address: 449 Alter Hall, 1801 Liacouras Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19122


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