Yin WANG
Yin Wang, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Accounting and Co-Director of MSc in Accounting (Data & Analytics) at the Singapore Management University (SMU) School of Accountancy (SOA). He earned his PhD in Management Science (Accounting) from HEC Paris, under the doctoral school of the University of Paris-Saclay, and was a Visiting PhD Research Scholar at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business. Prior to entering academia, he led a team as Manager in the Management Control Department at BNP Paribas in Paris, specializing in risk and finance within the leasing investment and financing business.
Dr. Wang has published research in Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR) and The Accounting Review (TAR), with a broad range of interests including disclosure and its real effects, advertising spill-over effects in capital markets, financial intermediaries, common ownership, ESG disclosure, insider trading, earnings management, regulation, and corporate governance. He has received multiple AAA FARS Midyear Meeting Excellence in Reviewing Awards and regularly serve as a referee for academic journals and conferences.
A recipient of multiple teaching awards at SMU, Dr. Wang is dedicated to teaching Financial Accounting, Financial Reporting and Analysis, Financial Statement Analysis, and Private Equity across both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. His courses have been recognized as exemplary models for junior faculty and PhD students.
Education
PhD in Management Science, HEC Paris
Research Interests
Disclosure and Real Effects
Spill-over Effects of Advertising in Capital Markets
Financial Intermediaries
Common Ownership
ESG Disclosure
Insider Trading
Earnings Management
Regulation and Corporate Governance
Teaching Interests
Financial Accounting
Financial Reporting and Analysis
Managerial Accounting
Private Equity
Selected Recognition and Awards
AAA FARS Midyear Meeting Excellence in Reviewing Award, 2023, 2025
SMU School of Accountancy Most Promising Teacher Award (School level), 2021-2022
SMU School of Accountancy Dean’s List for Teaching Excellence (School level), 2021-2023
Singapore MOE Tier 1 Academic Research Fund, PI solo-author, 2019
SMU Special Research Grant, 2018
HEC Foundation Best Doctoral Thesis Award, 2018
Selected Appointments and Services
Ad-hoc reviewer for: The Accounting Review, 2019; AAA Annual Meeting, 2017, 2019, 2024; AAA FARS Midyear Meeting, 2020, 2022-2023, 2025; AFC Annual Congress (Scientific Committee Member), 2023-2024; European Accounting Review, 2020-2023; EAA Annual Congress (Scientific Committee Member), 2021-2025.
Discussant for: AAA Annual Meeting, 2017-2018; EAA Annual Congress, 2019; Ganjiang International Accounting Forum, 2023; LBS Trans-Atlantic Doctoral Conference, 2017; HEC-ESSEC Joint Research Seminar, 2015.
SMU: SMU PhD in Accounting, SMU-ZJU DBA Accounting & Finance, SJTU-SMU DBA Dissertation Committee Member 2022-2025; UG (BAcc) and PG (MPA/MSA) Student Admission Recruiter, 2019-2025; Faculty coordinator of ACCT101 Financial Accounting, 2020, 2023-2024; Co-advisor for PhD student in the PhD Thesis, 2022-2025; Co-advisor for PhD student in the Empirical Research Project, 2021-2022; PhD Reading Group Discussion Leader, 2022-2025; SMU SOAR Accounting Symposium: Reviewer, 2018, 2020-2022; Moderator, 2018, 2021, 2023; Doctoral Consortium Breakout Group Leader, 2018; Review of Accounting Studies Conference Moderator 2019; Recommendation Panel Evaluator, Business Innovations Generator (BIG) incubation selection, Institute of Innovation & Entrepreneurship, 2024-2025.
Selected Publications
"Riding Attention Spikes: How Analysts Respond to Advertising" with Minjae Koo, Annika Wang and Liandong Zhang. Contemporary Accounting Research, Forthcoming.
“Do Firms Respond to Peer Disclosures? Evidence from Disclosures of Clinical Trial Results” with Vedran Capkun, Yun Lou and Clemens A. Otto. The Accounting Review 2023; 98 (3): 71–108. DOI: (https://doi.org/10.2308/TAR-2019-0137)
Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/yin-wang/
