Research areas

Financial accounting; Corporate Disclosure; Capital Market

Biography

Kathy Wang is a lecturer of Accounting at Australian National University. Her research interests are in financial accounting, corporate disclosures and corporate finance. Her papers has been published in academic journals, including Research Policy, European Accounting Review, and Accounting and Finance.

Kathy is also a co-founder and a convenor of the Early Career Researchers Support Network (ECRSN), a network that aims to help early-career researchers including Ph.D. students to improve their social wellbeing and academic performance. Currently, our network includes 169 participants. https://www.ecrsn.com/

Kathy also serves as a Co-chair of ANU Network for Early Career Teachers, Academics, and Researchers (NECTAR).

Grants

2022/2023 Accounting & Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) Research Grant

2022/2023 ANU RSA School Research Grant

2023/2024 ANU RSA School Research Grant

Publications

2025. The effect of auditor litigation risk on analyst coverage decisions: Evidence from a quasi-experiment, with Lu, L., Sui, M., and Wu, A. Accounting & Finance.

2025. Cartelization and Expected Crash Risk: Evidence From Global Leniency Laws with Kim, J.B., Lu, L. and Yu, Y. Journal of Business Finance & Accounting.

2024. "Patent litigation and narrative R&D disclosures: Evidence from the adoption of anti-troll legislation" with Rui Huang, Jeong-Bon Kim, Louise Yi Lu and Yangxin Yu. Research Policy.

2023. "The opioid crisis, employee health capital, and corporate information production" with Louise Lu, Leye Li and Mark Wilson. European Accounting Review.

2022. "External labor market competitions and stock price crash risk: Evidence from exposures to competitor CEOs’ award-winning events” with Louise Yi Lu and Leye Li. Accounting & Finance, 62(S1): 1421-1460.