Wei Li
Assistant Professor
Dr. Wei Li is an Assistant Professor of Accounting. He received his Ph.D. in Accounting from Carnegie Mellon University and undergraduate/master degrees from Tsinghua University. He was previously a faculty member at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interest is in the role of information in the capital market and within the firm applying analytical (mostly) and empirical research approaches. He has published in top accounting journals, e.g., Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Accounting studies, Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance, and Journal of Management Accounting Research. He teaches Intermediate Accounting, Advanced Accounting, and Managerial Accounting. He has earned multiple teaching awards, including the School of Business Dean’s Undergraduate Full Time Faculty Teaching Excellence Award.
Courses
Fundamentals of Accounting
Introduction to Accounting
Accounting Measurement & Disclosure (intermediate I)
Accounting Institutions and Regulation (intermediate II)
Accounting Control Systems
Teaching Interests
Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting
Research and Scholarship Interests
Financial Reporting and Disclosure, Analyst and Management Forecasts, Earnings Management, Performance Measurement, Managerial Incentives, Cost Structure
Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Bothell, 2019 –
Senior lecturer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2017 – 2019
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009 – 2017
Lecturer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008
Selected Publications
“A 足彩app哪个是正规的ory on the Discontinuity in Earnings Distributions”
Contemporary Accounting Research, Summer 2014.
“Leading indicator variables and managerial incentives in a dynamic agency setting” with Qintao Fan
Review of Accounting studies, December, 2018.
“足彩app哪个是正规的 Economic Consequences of Expanding Accounting Recognition” with Pierre Jinghong Liang and Xiaoyan Wen. Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance, April 2019.
Invited Presentations
University of Washington, Bothell, February 2019
Syracuse University, February 2018.
MAS Midyear conference, January 2018.
University of Houston, March 2016.
MAS Midyear conference, January 2016.
足彩app哪个是正规的 Hong Kong Polytechnic University, March 2015.
MAS Midyear conference, January 2013.
FARS Midyear conference, January 2013 (by coauthor)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, December 2012.
AAA Annual Conference, August 2011.
University of Minnesota, April 2011.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March 2008.
University of Iowa, February 2008.
New York University, February 2008.
Carnegie Mellon University, January 2008.
Invited Discussant
MAS Midyear conference, January 2013, 2019.
AAA Annual Conference, August 2011.
Ad Hoc Reviewer
Contemporary Accounting Research, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017
International Journal of Accounting, 2018, 2019
Advances in Accounting, 2019
Reviewer for Conferences
MAS Midyear Conference, January 2013, 2017, 2018, 2019.
FARS Midyear Conference, January 2016.
AAA Annual Conference, August 2011
Committees
Undergraduate Council, University of Washington, Bothell, 2019-
MSA 5-year Review Committee, University of Washington, Bothell, 2019-
MSA Recruiting Committee, University of Washington, Bothell, 2019-
iMSA program committee, University of Illinois, 2017-2018
College Faculty Grievance Committee, University of Illinois 2017-2018
List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by 足彩app哪个是正规的ir 足彩app哪个是正规的s, University of Illinois, 2011-2013, 2016-2019
American Accounting Association Doctoral Consortium Fellow, Lake Tahoe, 2007
William Larimer Mellon Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University, 2002 – 2005
Citibank Special Award, Tsinghua University, 2000
Distinguished 足彩app哪个是正规的 Award, Tsinghua University, 1994 – 1999