Mendoza School of Business

Clare Wang

Vincent and Rose Lizzadro Professor of Accountancy
Accountancy
 574-631-4527
  389C Mendoza College of Business
  • Biography
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Clare Wang is the Vincent and Rose Lizzadro Professor of Accountancy. Her research examinesthe effect of legal, regulatory, and financial reporting regimes in capital markets and corporateactivities. She also studies the broader relevance of corporate reporting, such as the impact ofaccounting information on voting behavior during national elections and investor responses tocorporate sustainability reporting. Clare currently serves as an Associate Editor at ManagementScience and the Journal of Accounting Research. She previously served as an Editor at TheAccounting Review.Clare has taught various financial and managerial accounting courses in MBA as well asundergraduate programs at the University of Colorado Boulder, the University of Iowa andNorthwestern University. Prior to pursuing academic research, Clare worked for Goldman Sachsin the investment banking division. She received both her B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from theWharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Education
Ph D, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School
BS, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School

"The Irrelevance of Environmental, Social, and Governenance Disclosure to Retail Investors", (With A Moss, J Naughton), Management Science, 70, 2024

"The RegulatoryRole of Credit Ratings and Voluntary Disclosure", (With R Basu, J Naughton), The Accounting Review, 97, 2022

"Investor Sentiment for Corporate Social Performance", (With J Naughton, I Yeung), The Accounting Review, 94, 2019

"Private Litigation Costs and Voluntary Disclosure: Evidence from the Morrison Ruling", (With J Naughton, T Rusticus, I Yeung), The Accounting Review, 94, 2019

"Corporate Schandals and Regulation", (With L Hail, A Tahoun), Journal of Accounting Research, 56, 2018

"Do Firms Strategically Disseminate? Evidence from Corporate Use of Social Media", (With M Jung, J Naughton, A Tahoun), The Accounting Review, 93, 2018

"The Impact of Currency Risk on U.S. MNCs: New Evidence from Returns and Cross-border Investment around Currency Crises", (With K Dewenter, C Schrand), Critical Finance Review, 7, 2018

"Cross-Country Evidence on the Relation between Capital Gains Taxes, Risk, and Expected Return", (With L Hail, S Sikes), Journal of Public Economics, 151, 2017

"Making Sense of One Dollar CEO Salaries", (With S Hamm, M Jung), Contemporary Accounting Reserach, 32, 2015

"Signaling through Corporate Accountability Reporting", (With T Lys, J Naughton), Journal of Accounting and Economics, 60, 2015

"Accounting Standards Harmonization and Financial Statement Comparability: Evidence from Transnational Information Transfer", Journal of Accounting Research, 52, 2014

"Dividend Payouts and Information Shocks", (With L Hail, A Tahoun), Journal of Accounting Research, 52, 2014

"Some Thoughts on Accounting Research in Japanese Settings", (With R Verrecchia), The Japanese Accounting Review, 1, 2011