Liao, Ke
	Assistant Professor
	Department of Accounting
	Email: liaoke@whu.edu.cn
	Phone: 027-68753057
	PhD, Accounting, Tsinghua University (2012-2017)
	B.Eng., Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University, China (2008-2012)
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TEACHING AND RESEARCH AREAS

Ÿ Teaching Focusing (Program and credit hour):

n Principles of Financial Accounting (Undergraduates, 48)

n Financial Market, Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies (Undergraduates, 24)

n Methodologies in Financial Accounting Research (MSc. and PhD. 24).

Ÿ Research Areas: Financial Accounting, Corporate Governance and Financial Market Regulation, Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies

 

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Ÿ Assistant Professor of Accounting, Wuhan University, July 2017 – present

Ÿ Visiting Scholar, The University of Iowa, August 2016 – December 2016

Ÿ Research Assistant, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, January 2015 – January 2016

 

CONSULTING AND TRAINING EXPERIENCE (GOVERNMENT OR CORPORATE)

Ÿ Development of corporate cash management system, Fujian Mindong Electric Power Co., Ltd, July - August 2014

Ÿ Credit rating model development, China Bond Rating Co., Ltd, July - September 2011

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Journal Papers (Domestic)

Ÿ Guihua He, Ke Liao, Deren Xie. The Information Transmission within Financial Institutions: Evidence from the Share Pledging Business in Brokerage Firms, The Journal of World Economy, 2021, 44(7): 207-232.

Ÿ Ke Liao, Deren Xie, Xinyi Zhang. Controlling Shareholders' Share Pledging and Firms' Mergers and Acquisitions. Accounint Research, 2020, (11): 202-211.

Ÿ Huobao Xie, Longfei Ding, Ke Liao. Overseas Background Directors and Debt Costs: Evidence from the Mediating Effect of the Advisory and Supervisory Functions. Management Review, 2019, 31(11): 97-111.

Ÿ Deren Xie, Ke Liao. Share pledging by controlling shareholders and real earnings management of listed firms, China Journal of Accounting Studies, 2018, 6(2): 109~119

Ÿ Ke Liao, Chenyu Cui, and Deren Xie. Controlling Shareholders' Share Pledge and Dividend Policy Choice of Listed Firms. Journal of Financial Research, 2018, (4): 172-189.

Ÿ Deren Xie, Ke Liao, and Dengjin Zheng. Controlling Shareholder’s Share Pledging and

Implicit Choice of Development Cost Accounting Policy, Accounint Research, 2017, (3): 30-38.

Ÿ Deren Xie, Chenyu Cui, and Ke Liao. Large Stock Dividends and Insiders’ Shares Selling: Which One Dominates the Other? Journal of Financial Research, 2016, (11): 158-173.

Ÿ Ke Liao. Ponzi Circulation of Cash Dividends——Evidence from Capacity and Payment of Cash Dividends, Investing Activities of Chinese Listed Firms. Review of Investment Studies, 2015, (8): 54-81.

 

Conference Papers (International)

Ÿ Douglas DeJong, Ke Liao, Deren Xie, “Controlling Shareholder’s Share Pledging and Accounting Manipulations”, Presented at American Accounting Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA (2019).

Ÿ Ke Liao, Muzhi Wang, Deren Xie, and Dengjin Zheng, “Does Controlling Shareholders’ Financial Risk Affect Auditors’ Perception of the Firms’ Financial Reporting Risk? Evidence from Share Pledge”. Presented at Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance Conference, Seogwipo City, Republic of Korea (2018) and Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association, Paphos, Cyprus (2019).

 

Grants

Ÿ 2020-2022: National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 71902149).

Ÿ 2019-2022: Humanity and Social Science Youth Foundation of the Ministry of Education of China (Grant No. 19YJC630096)

 

Translation Work

Ÿ Ke Liao, Killer Analytics: Top 20 Metrics Missing from your Balance Sheet, 2015, Beijing, People's Posts and Telecommunications Press.

 

MEMBERSHIPS, CERTIFICATIONS

Ÿ Certified Public Accountant, Beijing, 2016

Ÿ Securities Practitioner Qualification Certificate

Ÿ CFA® Level I passed

 

INVITED SPEECH AND MEDIA COVERAGE

Ÿ “Decentralizing for Local Information: Evidence from the State-Owned Listed Firms in China”, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (April, 2021).

Ÿ “When Investors Speak, Do Firms Listen: The Role of Investor Dividend-related Complaints from Online Earnings Communication Conferences”, Dekin University (January 2020), Shanghai Jiaotong University (July 2019) and Central University of Finance and Economics (June 2019)

Ÿ “The Pledge of Allegiance by the Controlling Shareholder”，The University of Iowa (December 2016)

Ÿ “Controlling shareholders’ share pledge and firm’s accounting manipulations”, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (April 2016)