Lihong Liang

Associate Professor of Accounting

315-443-3598
Room: 642
lihongl@syr.edu

Ph D, Pennsylvania State University (Accounting)

Bio
Research
Honors & Leadership

Research Topics

Corporate governance
Financial analysts forecasts
Market anomolies

Professor Liang's areas of expertise include financial accounting, analyst forecasts, corporate governance, and market anomalies. Her work has been published in the Review of Accounting Studies, and other leading industry journals. She is a member of the American Accounting Association. Professor Liang previously taught at George Washington University.

Selected Publications

"Analyst Pessimism and Forecast Timing", Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, 40(5&6), 719-739, 2013 (with Barron, O., Byard, D.)
"The Effect of Fair Value versus Historical Cost Reporting Model on Analyst Forecast Accuracy", The Accounting Review, 89(3), 1151-1177, 2014 (with Riedl, E.)
"External Corporate Governance and Misreporting", Contemporary Accounting Research, 32(4), 1413-1442, 2015 (with Baber, W., Kang, S., Zhu, Z.)
"Associations between internal and external corporate governance characteristics: Implications for investigating financial accounting restatements", Accounting Horizons, 26(2), 219-237, 2012 (with Baber, W., Zhu, Z.)
"Earnings forecasts in enterprise information systems environment", Enterprise Information Systems, 2(1), 1-19, 2008
"The determinants of analyst-firm pairings", Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, 27(4), 277-294, 2008 (with Riedl, E., Venkataraman, R.)
"Post-earnings announcement drift and market participants’ information processing biases", Review of Accounting Studies, 8(2-3), 321-345, 2003

Awards and Honors

Nominated for Bender Teaching Award - George Washington University (2007)
Undergraduate Teaching Award - George Washington University (2007)
Dean’s Scholars Program Grant - George Washington University (2006)
J. Wendell and Louise Crain Research Fellowship - George Washington University (2005)
Grant - John C. Richardson of JMR Financial, Inc. (2003)
Big Ten Doctoral Consortium Fellow - The Pennsylvania State University (2000)
G. Kenneth Nelson Fellowship - The Pennsylvania State University (1997)