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Dr. Congcong Li joined the Palumbo-Donahue School of Business in 2019 after spending four years at the Singapore Management University as a faculty member. 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.

Dr. Li is also a recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of Maryland and the Dean's List for Teaching Excellence from the Singapore Management University. 

Education

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

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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.

Summarized in Research Briefs in Economic Policy No. 204, Cato Institute, March 4, 2020. https://www.cato.org/publications/research-briefs-economic-policy/regulations-brain-drainevidence-wall-street-star

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.