Yong Yu
Professor
Department: Accounting
Additional Titles: C. Aubrey Smith Professor of Accounting
Research Areas: Cross-Listing, Financial Analysts, Institutional Investors, Voluntary Disclosure
Yong Yu is a professor of accounting at The University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business. He has taught courses on contemporary accounting topics, empirical financial accounting research, and financial statement analysis. Prior to joining McCombs, he taught introductory financial and managerial accounting for undergraduates at Pennsylvania State University.
Also an accomplished researcher, Yu has published papers on the stock market, financial analysis, and market behavior. His research has been published in the Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, and Contemporary Accounting Research. For his expertise in his field, he has been invited to present his research at and attend conferences for organizations and institutions including Duke University, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, among many others. He has also co-authored a book chapter, “Fair value accounting: China experience,” for “The Routledge Companion to Fair Value in Accounting.”
Yu earned a B.A. in international accounting from Tsinghua University and an M.A. in economics from Tulane University. He earned a Ph.D. in accounting from Pennsylvania State University.
ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP & AWARDS
2011-12 |
CBA Foundation Research Excellence Award for Assistant Professors, The University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business |
Jenna D’Adduzio, David S. Koo, Santhosh Ramalingegowda, and Yong Yu. Jun 2024. Does More Frequent Financial Reporting Bring the Future Forward? Accounting Horizons 38(2): 119-141.
Third-Party Consequences of Changes in Managerial Fiduciary Duties: The Case of Auditors' Going Concern Opinions. By: Liang Tan, Santhosh Ramalingegowda, Yong Yu. Management Science. Feb2022, Vol. 68 Issue 2, p1556-1572.
Santhosh Ramalingegowda and Yong Yu. 2021. The Role of Accounting Conservatism in Capital Structure Adjustments. Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance 36(2), 223-248.
Santhosh Ramalingegowda, Steven Utke, and Yong Yu. 2021. Common Institutional Ownership and Earnings Management. Contemporary Accounting Research 38(1), 208-241.
Ross Jennings, Antonis Kartapanis, and Yong Yu. 2021. Do Political Connections Induce More or Less Opportunistic Financial Reporting? Evidence from Close Elections Involving SEC-influential Politicians. Contemporary Accounting Research 38(2), 1177-1203.
Han-Chung Chen, Yen-Jung Lee, Sheng-Yi Lo, and Yong Yu. 2021. Qualitative Characteristics of Non-GAAP Disclosures and Non-GAAP Earnings Quality. Journal of Accounting and Economics 72(1), 101402.
Ying Huang, Ningzhon Li, Yong Yu, and Xiaolu Zhou. 2020. The Effect of Managerial Litigation Risk on Earnings Warnings: Evidence from a Natural Experiment. Journal of Accounting Research 58(5), 1161-1202.
Jesse Chan, Steve Lin, Yong Yu, and Wuyang Zhao. 2018. Analysts' Stock Ownership and Stock Recommendations. Journal of Accounting and Economics 66(2/3), 476-498.
Gang Hu, Bin Ke, and Yong Yu. 2018. Can Transient Institutions Correctly Interpret Small Negative Earnings Surprises in the Absence of Access to Management’s Private Information? Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance 33(1), 3-33.
John M McInnis, Yong Yu, and Christopher G. Yust. 2018. Does Fair Value Accounting Provide More Useful Financial Statements than Current GAAP for Banks? The Accounting Review 93(6), 257-279.
Orie E. Barron, Donal Byard, and Yong Yu. 2017. Earnings Announcement Disclosures and Changes in Analysts' Information. Contemporary Accounting Research 34(1), 343-373.
Ying Huang, Ross Jennings, and Yong Yu. 2017. Product Market Competition and Managerial Disclosure of Earnings Forecasts: Evidence from Import Tariff Rate Reductions. The Accounting Review 92(3), 185-207.
David Koo, Santhosh Ramalingegowda, and Yong Yu. 2017. The Effect of Financial Reporting Quality on Corporate Dividend Policy. Review of Accounting Studies 22(2), 753-790.
Guojin Gong, Bin Ke, and Yong Yu. 2013. Home Country Investor Protection, Ownership Structure and Cross-Listed Firms' Compliance with SOX-Mandated Internal Control Deficiency Disclosures. Contemporary Accounting Research 30(4), 1490-1523.
Santhosh Ramalingegowda, Chuan-San Wang, and Yong Yu. 2013. The Role of Financial Reporting Quality in Mitigating the Constraining Effect of Dividend Policy on Investment Decisions. The Accounting Review 88(3), 1007-1039.
Santhosh Ramalingegowda and Yong Yu. 2012. Institutional Ownership and Conservatism. Journal of Accounting and Economics 53(1/2), 98-114.
Dain Donelson, John M McInnis, R. Mergenthaler, and Yong Yu. 2012. The Timeliness of Bad Earnings News and Litigation Risk. The Accounting Review 87(6), 1967-1991.
Yong Yu, John R. Robinson, and Yanfeng Xue. 2011. Determinants of Disclosure Noncompliance and the Effect of the SEC Review: Evidence from the 2006 Mandated Compensation Disclosure Regulations. The Accounting Review 86(4), 1415-1444.
Yong Yu, Donal Byard, and Ying Li. 2011. The Effect of Mandatory IFRS Adoption on Financial Analysts' Information Environment. Journal of Accounting Research 49(1), 69-96.
Orie Barron, Mary Stanford, and Yong Yu. 2009. Further Evidence on the Relation between Analysts' Forecast Dispersion and Stock Returns. Contemporary Accounting Research 26, 329-357.
Orie E. Barron, Donal Byard, and Yong Yu. 2008. Earnings Surprises that Motivate Analysts to Reduce Average Forecast Error. The Accounting Review 83, 303-325.
Bin Ke, Kathy Petroni, and Yong Yu. 2008. The Effect of Regulation FD on Transient Institutional Investor's Trading Behavior. Journal of Accounting Research 46, 853-883.
Zhu, Xing, Cao, Hualiang, and Yong Yu. 2006. SDQE: towards automatic semantic query optimization in P2P systems. Information Processing and Management 42, 222-236.
Ke, Bin and Yong Yu. 2006. The Effects of Issuing Biased Earnings Forecasts on Analysts' Access to Management and Survival. Journal of Accounting Research 44, 965-999.