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Liang, Jinghong

Associate Professor of Accounting
Carnegie Mellon University

jhliang@saif.sjtu.edu.cn

Educational Background

Ph.D. in Business Administration (Accounting), University of Florida

Experience

Professor Liang has been teaching at Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University since 1994

Honors / Achievements

Best Paper at the Annual Meeting Award for “Limited Managerial Attention and Endogenous Precision of Performance Measures,” with L. Nan, AAA Management Accounting Section – 2009

Short BIO

Professor Jinghong Liang research interests are accounting theory and information economics; his research articles have been published in The Accounting Review, American Economic Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Public Economics, Management Science, among others. His latest research focuses on disclosure theory, axiomatic foundations of income measurement, and team monitoring in agencies.
His professional services outside Carnegie Mellon include serving the American Accounting Association (AAA) on its various committees including the research advisory committee and serving the Chinese Accounting Professors Association of North America (CAPANA) as an officer.

Publication

  • Publications

    Essays in Accounting Theory in Honour of Joel S. Demski, Springer Publishers: Norwell, MA, (2007).

     

    Published Papers

    Information Asymmetry and Equilibrium Monitoring in Education, Journal of Public Economics 96(1-2), February 2012; 237-254. (with: Maria Ferreyra)

    Quasi-Robust Mutliagent Contracts, Management Science 55, 2009; 752-762. (with: Jonathan Glover, Anil Arya, Joel Demski)

    Optimal Team Size and Monitoring in Organizations Accounting Review 83(3), May 2008. (with: Madhav V. Rajan, Korok Ray)

    Accounting Measurement Basis, Market Mispricing, and Firm Investment Efficiency, Journal of Accounting Research 45(1), March 2007; 155-197. (with: Xiaoyan Wen)

    Accounting Treatment of Inherent versus Incentive Uncertainties and the Capital Structure of the Firm, Journal of Accounting Research44(1), March 2006; 145-176. (with: Xiao-Jun Zhang)

    Separating Facts from Forecasts in Financial Statements, Accounting Horizons, December 2005; 267-282. (with: Jonathan Glover, Yuji Ijiri, Carolyn Levine)

    Profit Sharing and Monitoring in Partnerships, Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2005. (with: Steven J. Huddart)

    Temporal Aggregation and Incentives, European Accounting Review 13(4), 2004; 643-657. (with: Anil Arya, Jonathan Glover)

    Equilibrium Earnings Management, Incentive Contracts, and Accounting Standards, Contemporary Accounting Research 21(3), 2004; 685-718.

    Accounting in Partnerships, American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings of the Annual Meetings of American Economic Associations 93(2), 2003; 410-414. (with: Steven J. Huddart)

    Some Thoughts on the Intellectual Foundations of Accounting, Accounting Horizons 16, 2002; 157-168. (with: Joel Demski, John Fellingham, Jonathan Glover, Yuji Ijiri, Shyam Sunder)

    Accounting Recognition: An Information Content Perspective, Accounting Horizons 15(3), 2001; 223-42.

    Accounting Recognition, Moral Hazard, and Communication, Contemporary Accounting Research 17(3), 2000; 457-90.