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LOU, Yun

Full-time Faculty
Associate Professor of Accounting; Programme Director, PhD in Accounting Programme; Lee Kong Chian Fellow
School of Accountancy SOA

Dr Lou Yun joined SMU in 2017. Prior to joining SMU, she taught the Executive, MBA, and Master programs at HEC Paris. She received her PhD in Accounting from London Business School. Her research focuses on the intersection between debt contracting and corporate disclosure. She has published in the Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Review of Accounting Studies, and Management Science, among others.

EDUCATION

PhD, London Business School, 2012

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Debt Contracting
Corporate Disclosure

TEACHING INTERESTS

Accounting Thought and Governance
Business Valuation
Financial Statement Analysis

SELECTED AWARDS/RECOGNITION

Tier 2 Academic Research Fund (AcRF) by Ministry of Education, Singapore
SMU School of Accountancy Research Award: Most Promising Researcher (2018 and 2020)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Disclosure of Pending Lawsuits and Bond Terms, Management Science 65 (2019), 1926-1947

Shareholder Litigation and Corporate Disclosure: Evidence from Derivative Lawsuits, Journal of Accounting Research 56 (2018), 797-842, with T. Bourveau and R. Wang

Accounting Quality and Debt Concentration, The Accounting Review, forthcoming, with N. Li, C. Otto, and R. Wittenberg-Moerman

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