Academic & Professional Qualification
- Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University
- M.B.A., Baruch College
- B.B.A., Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
Biography
Wenjie Xue received his Ph.D. in Industrial Administration from Carnegie Mellon University in 2019. Before joining The University of Hong Kong, he worked as an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the National University of Singapore and later worked in economic consulting in Silicon Valley, where he advised on accounting and economic issues in litigation and regulatory contexts. He is a long-term affiliate member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.
Research Interest
- Accounting
- Disclosure
- Capital markets
- Information economics of data and AI
- AI transparency and governance
Selected Publications
- The market disciplinary effect of asset write-off: Theory and empirical evidence from goodwill impairment (with Yi Jiang and Yupeng Lin), The Accounting Review, forthcoming. https://doi.org/10.2308/TAR-2022-0526
- Disclosure and dynamic risk sharing with a large shareholder (with Davide Cianciaruso and Lin Qiu), The Accounting Review, 2025, 100(1), 169–200. https://doi.org/10.2308/TAR-2022-0159
- Accounting comparability and relative performance evaluation by capital markets (with Sang Wu), Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2023, 75(1), 101535. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacceco.2022.101535
- Voluntary versus mandatory disclosure (with Jeremy Bertomeu and Igor Vaysman), Review of Accounting Studies, 2021, 26(2), 658–692. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11142-020-09579-0
- Optimal conservatism with earnings manipulation (with Jeremy Bertomeu and Masako Darrough), Contemporary Accounting Research, 2017, 34(1), 252–284. https://doi.org/10.1111/1911-3846.12247
Awards and Honours
- Carnegie Mellon University Larimer Mellon Fellowship