Bio

Welcome! I am a PhD candidate in Accounting at Penn State's Smeal College of Business. I am on the 2026-2027 accounting rookie job market.

My research examines how information is produced, strategically disclosed, and incorporated into capital markets in corporate, political, and audit-regulatory settings. During 2024-2025, I was a Visiting Research Intern in the Office of Economic and Risk Analysis at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.

Research

Job Market Paper

[1] Behind Closed Doors: Presidential Meetings and Strategic Public Disclosure

Sole-authored job market paper

I examine what drives the president’s strategic disclosure of what they are working on and its capital-market implications. Using Presidential Daily Diaries, I reconstruct the president’s minute-by-minute schedule from 1935 through 2009. I use government records and an LLM to identify the policy issues each meeting participant is working on and infer potential meeting topics from that work. I then use the LLM to identify topics in presidential public communications and measure their similarity to potential meeting topics. I find that presidential public communications more closely reflect what the president is working on when issues are important to voters. Presidents give greater public emphasis to issues facing opposition from the other party but less emphasis to issues that divide their own party. I also find greater subsequent uncertainty at the firm and market levels when public communication less closely matches potential meeting topics. This association is stronger among firms with greater exposure to government demand, and it is attenuated following private presidential access. Together, these findings are consistent with voluntary disclosure theory in that presidents weigh political costs and benefits when choosing what to communicate publicly, and suggest that these decisions shape the supply of political information to capital markets.

Working Papers

[2] Market-based Incentives for Audit Quality

with Andrew Acito, Amir Amel-Zadeh, James Anderson, William Anderson, Daniel Aobdia, Thomas Bourveau, Francois Brochet, Huaizhi Chen, Jonathan Fluharty-Jaidee, Martin Schmalz, Manyun Tang, Joshua White, and William Zame

  • Minor revision at Management Science.
  • Cited in PCAOB Release No. 2024-012 on firm and engagement metrics and the PCAOB Chair address at the 2024 AICPA & CIMA Conference.

[4] PCAOB Inspection Reports and Information Dissemination

with Andrew Acito, Amir Amel-Zadeh, James Anderson, William Anderson, Daniel Aobdia, Francois Brochet, Huaizhi Chen, Jonathan Fluharty-Jaidee, Martin Schmalz, and Manyun Tang

  • Preparing for initial submission at Review of Financial Studies.
  • Based on second-semester proposal at Penn State. This paper exploits proprietary PCAOB data.

Works in Progress

[6] Inflation and Accrual Anomaly: From a View of Conditional Asset Pricing

with Nastaran Mirzayi

[7] Bypassing the Bureaucracy: The Presidential Information Transmission and Regulatory Outcomes

[8] Presidential Interaction and Judicial Independence: Evidence from Corporate Litigation

[9] Accounting Standards and University Bonds

with Daniel Aobdia and Yuchen Li

Teaching Experience

  • 2025, Teaching Assistant, Accounting Research and Analysis (DBA), Penn State University
  • 2023, Instructor, Managerial Accounting (Undergraduate; Avg. Rating 6.5/7), Penn State University
  • 2023, Teaching Assistant, Financial Accounting (Undergraduate), Penn State University

Education

  • 2027 expected, Ph.D. in Business Administration (Accounting), Penn State University
  • 2020, M.Sc. in Accounting, Bentley University
  • 2018, B.S. in Nuclear Technology; with Second Major in Accounting, Xi'an Jiaotong University