MEILING ZHAO

PUBLICATIONS 

• "Financial YouTube Channels and the Capital Markets," with Mark Bradshaw and Minjae Koo, Contemporary Accounting Research, Forthcoming

  • 40th Annual Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR) Conference Paper

• "The Opportunity for Partner Industry Knowledge Sharing within Audit Offices and Audit Quality," with Paul Michas and Dan Russomanno, Review of Accounting Studies (2025)

• "Auditor Office Reputation Damage and their Audit Clients’ Voluntary Disclosures," with Paul Michas and Mei Cheng, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory (2024)

• "The Role of Equity Underwriters in Shaping Corporate Disclosure," with Mei Cheng and Yuan Zhang, Review of Accounting Studies (2024)

WORKING PAPERS

• "Trust and SEC Investigations," with Francois Brochet and Kelvin Yeung

• "Generative AI and Regulatory Oversight: Evidence from SEC Comment Letters," with Susan Shu, Minjae Koo, and Kelvin Yeung

• "Organized Labor and Strategic Disclosure through Online Job Postings," with Daniel Aobdia, Lin Cheng, and Liwei Weng

• "XBRL Adoption and SEC Monitoring," with Minjae Koo, Yinqi Zhang, and Yuping Zhao

• "Results-Oriented Culture and SEC Enforcement," with Susan Shu and Kelvin Yeung

• "Timely Signals of Systematic Audit Quality from Market Participants: Evidence from Activist Short-Seller Campaigns" 

  • Best Doctoral Student Paper Award, American Accounting Association (2023)

• "Audit Partner Experience with Specific Component Auditors and Audit Quality," with Will Docimo

SERVICE AND RECOGNITION

• Ad Hoc Reviewer: The Accounting Review, Review of Accounting Studies, Contemporary Accounting Research, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Accounting Horizons, Journal of International Accounting Research, and various conferences (FARS, AMYM, HARC, AAA, etc.)

• Editorial Board Member: Accounting Open

• Certified Public Accountant (Australia)

• FARS Excellence in Reviewing Award, American Accounting Association (2021)