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Biography

Dr. Congcong Li is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the Palumbo-Donahue School of Business. She joined in 2019 after spending four years as a faculty member at the Singapore Management University. Her teaching interests include both financial and managerial accounting.

Dr. Li's research focuses on information environment, specifically the role of media in capital markets and assessing the information content of earnings at aggregate level. Her research has been published in leading academic journals including: Journal of Accounting and Economics, Management Science, Review of Accounting Studies, Accounting, Organization & Society, and The Accounting Review.

She is a member of the American Accounting Association and currently serves on the editorial board of Journal of Accounting and Public Policy and The International Journal of Accounting.

Education

  • Ph.D., Accounting, University of Maryland
  • M.A., Economics, Duke University

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Palumbo-Donahue School of Business
  • KPMG Faculty Fellow in Accounting, 2024-2027


External
  • Best Paper Award, Asian Accounting Associations Conference, 2018
  • Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Maryland
  • Dean's List for Teaching Excellence, Singapore Management University

Articles in Journals

Li, C., Lin, A., & Lu, H. (2023). The Effect of Social Skills on Analyst Performance. Contemporary Accounting Research, 40(2), 1418-1447.

Hope, O., Li, C., Ma, S., & Su, X. (2022). Is Silence Golden Sometimes? Management Guidance Withdrawals During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Review of Accounting Studies, 28, 2319-2360.

Hann, R., Li, C., & Ogneva, M. (2021). Another Look at the Macroeconomic Information Content of Aggregate Earnings: Evidence from the Labor Market. The Accounting Review, 96(2), 365-390.

Hope, O., Li, C., Lin, A., & Rabier, M. (2021). Happy Analysts. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 90(1), 21.

Li, C., Lin, A., Lu, H., & Veenstra, K. (2020). Gender and Beauty in the Financial Analyst Profession: Evidence From the United States and China. Review of Accounting Studies, 25, 1230-1262.

Guan, Y., Li, C., Lu, H., & Wong, F. (2019). Regulations and Brain Drain: Evidence from Wall Street Star Analysts? Career Choices. Management Science, 65(12), 5449-5956.


Aggregate Earnings Surprises, Monetary Policy, and Stock Returns (with Rebecca Hann and Lindsey Gallo). Journal of Accounting & Economics, 62 (1): 103-120, 2016.