Associate Professor Steven Wu | Research School of Accounting

RSA

Research School of Accounting

Position

Associate Professor

Convenor of HDR

steven.wu@anu.edu.au

Phone number

+61 2 612 53586

Office

1038, PAP Moran Bld (21)

Research areas

Securities regulation; corporate innovation; financial reporting; corporate disclosure; investor behavior; economic policy uncertainty

Biography

Steven Wu is a Senior Lecturer of Accounting and Convener of Higher Degree Research at the Research School of Accounting. Steven’s research focuses on securities regulation, corporate innovation, corporate disclosure and financial reporting. His work has been funded by external bodies including CPA Australia and the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand. Steven’s papers have been published in leading journals including ABACUS, Accounting and Business Research, Accounting and Finance, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Australian Journal of Management, European Accounting Review, International Journal of Accounting, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Corporate Finance, and Management Accounting Research.

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Research publications

Li, L., Liu, L. and Wu, H., 2022, Workforce education and corporate innovation. Australian Journal of Management, In-Press.

Chen, X., Liang, X. and Wu, H., 2022, Cross‑border mergers and acquisitions and CSR performance: evidence from China. Journal of Business Ethics, In-Press.

Qiu, J., Wu, H. and Zhang, L., 2021, In name only: Information spillovers among Chinese firms with similar stock names during earnings announcements. Journal of Corporate Finance, 69, 102105.

Jin. X. and Wu, H., 2021, Economic policy uncertainty and firms’ cost behaviour. Management Accounting Research, 52, 100750.

Yang, J., Wu, H. and Yu, Y., 2021, Distracted Institutional Investors and Audit Risk, Accounting and Finance, Vol. 61, pp. 3855-3881.

Huang, R., Li, L., Lu, Y. and Wu, H., 2021, The Impact of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act on Firms’ R&D Disclosure, The European Accounting Review, Vol. 30, No. 5, pp. 1067-1104.

Wu, H., Thomas, A. and Wright, S., 2020, Using the R&D Capitalisation Choice to Explain the Scale Benefits of R&D Investment, Australian Journal of Management, Vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 579-606.

Chen, X., Wright, S. and Wu, H., 2018, Exploration Intensity, Analysts' Private Information Development and Their Forecast Performance, Accounting and Business Research, Vol. 48, No. 1, pp.77-107.

Lu, L., Wu, H. and Yu, Y., 2017, Investment-related Pressure and Audit Risk, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp.137-157.

Wu, H., 2017, Probability of loss reversal in Australia, Australian Journal of Management, Vol. 42, No. 4, pp.560-582.

Choi, K., Chen, X., Wright, S. and Wu, H., 2014, Analysts' Forecasts Following Forced CEO Changes, Abacus, Vol. 50, No. 2, pp.146-173.

Wu, H., Fargher, N. and Wright, S., 2010, Accounting for investments and the relevance of losses to firm value. International Journal of Accounting, Vol. 45, No. 1, pp.104-127.

Wu, H. and Fargher, N., 2007, Components of Accruals, Losses and Future Profitability. Accounting Research Journal, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp.97-111.