Ke Wang, PhD

About

Education

PhD, Accounting, City University of Hong Kong, 2015

BBA (Hons), Accounting and Finance, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2010

Research

Research interest

Capital markets 

Textual analysis of corporate disclosures 

Stakeholder relations

Publications

"Bogging down investors: An unintended consequence of litigation risk" with Siwen Fu, Liandong Zhang, and Liu Zheng, Contemporary Accounting Research (forthcoming), https://doi.org/10.1111/1911-3846.13027.

"Asset securitizations and stock price crash risk: Evidence from nonfinancial firms" with Yifan Jia, Jeong-Bon Kim, Ying Mao, and Zheng Wang, Accounting Horizons (forthcoming), https://doi.org/10.2308/HORIZONS-2022-143.

"Do family firms issue more readable annual reports? Evidence from the United States" with Qunfeng Liao and Bin Srinidhi, Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance (forthcoming), https://doi.org/10.1177/0148558X231198894.

"Stakeholder orientation and accounting conservatism: Evidence from state-level constituency statutes" with Suresh Radhakrishnan and Zheng Wang, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, 2025, 51, 107295, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccpubpol.2025.107295.

• Featured in: Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance

"How do investors perceive corporate general counsel? The role of monitoring and advising demand" with Zhihong Chen and Yun Ke, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, 2024, 43, 107175, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccpubpol.2023.107175.

"Short-sale constraints and firm investment efficiency: Evidence from a natural experiment" with Zhihong Chen and Siwen Fu, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, 2023, 42(6), 107149, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccpubpol.2023.107149.

"Is the tone of risk disclosures in MD&As relevant to debt markets? Evidence from the pricing of credit default swaps" (solo-authored), Contemporary Accounting Research, 2021, 38(2), 1465–1501, https://doi.org/10.1111/1911-3846.12644.

• Featured in: Alberta School of Business "Speaking of Research" Audio Podcast Series

"Why do banks favor employee-friendly firms? A stakeholder–screening perspective" with Cuili Qian, Donal Crilly, and Zheng Wang, Organization Science, 2021, 32(3), 605–624, https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2020.1400.

"Readability of 10-K reports and stock price crash risk" with Chansog (Francis) Kim and Liandong Zhang, Contemporary Accounting Research, 2019, 36(2), 1184–1216, https://doi.org/10.1111/1911-3846.12452.

• Featured in: Folio - the University of Alberta's brand journalism site, Phys.org - News and Articles on Science and Technology
• Data on modified readability indices: SAS, STATA, Readme
• Word lists: Compustat, Industry, Combined

External research grants

SSHRC Insight Grant, 2024–2028, principal investigator, C$85,821 (2024)

General Research Fund of Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2024–2026, co-investigator, HK$431,292 (2023)

General Research Fund of Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2023–2025, co-investigator, HK$290,663 (2022)

General Research Fund of Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2021–2023, co-investigator, HK$242,000 (2020)

SSHRC Insight Development Grant, 2019–2021, principal investigator, C$54,670 (2019)

Early Career Scheme of Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2019–2021, collaborator, HK$318,518 (2018)

CAAA Research Grant, 2018–2019, principal investigator, C$6,667 (2017)

Faculty fellowships

Canadian Utilities Faculty Fellowship, 2024–2025

The Edmonton Journal Fellowship, 2022–2023

Canadian Utilities Faculty Fellowship, 2019–2020

Teaching

Teaching interest

Managerial accounting

Financial accounting

Courses taught

ACCTG 222 Introduction to Accounting for Management Decision Making (formerly ACCTG 322)

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