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LI Haitong
Date:2025-03-25


Li Haitong

Assistant Professor

Department of Accounting

Email: haitong@whu.edu.cn


PhD, Renmin University of China, China (2024)

M.A, Hunan University, China (2020)

B.A., Hunan University of Science and Technology, China (2018)



TEACHING AND RESEARCH AREAS

Teaching Programme: Big Data Analysis in Financial Accounting, Frontiers in Accounting, Finance, and Digital Auditing

Research Areas: Corporate Finance, Digital Innovation


ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

2024–Present: Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track), Wuhan University


INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE

2023-2024: Government-Sponsored Visiting Ph.D. Student, National University of Singapore


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Journal Papers (International)

1.Product market competition and disclosure content differentiation: A topic modeling analysis, with Chu Y, Huang B and Liu J. 2024. Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, forthcoming.

2.Digital innovation and corporate social responsibility performance: Evidence from firms’ digital patents, with Lu L, Lin Z and Meng T. 2024. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 207: 123626.

3.Whom you know matters: Network structure, industrial environment and digital orientation, with Wang S, Yan Y and Wang B. 2024. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 206: 123493.

4.Free land, heavy burden: Industrial land administrative allocation and local fiscal imbalance in China, with Huang B, Lei J and Wang Y. 2024. Economics & Politics, 36(1): 312-333.

5.Controlling shareholder's escape threat: Foreign residency rights and stock price crash risk, with Cao F, Zhang X and Zhang Z. 2025. Research in International Business and Finance, 102707

6.Narrative innovation disclosure and stock price crash risk: Evidence from Chinese listed firms, with Yuan L, Tao J and Dai P. 2024. Research in International Business and Finance, 102479.

7.Fleeing entrepreneurs: Foreign residency right and corporate risk-taking, with Meng Q and Chan K C. 2023. Research in International Business and Finance, 65: 101934.

8.Employee stock ownership plans and firm productivity in China, with Lin Z and Huang B. 2022. Economic and Labour Relations Review, 33(4): 829-849.


Journal Papers (Domestic)

Digital technology innovation and the high-quality development of Chinese enterprises: Evidence from enterprise's digital patents, Economic Research Journal (Jing Ji Yan Jiu), 2023, 58 (03): 97-115.

Strategic alliance, factor flow and firm total factor productivity growth, Journal of Management World (Guan Li Shi Jie), 2022, 38 (10): 195-212.

Industrial-Financial cooperation and corporate investment efficiency: Quasi-natural experiment based on pilot cities, Nankai Business Review (Nankai Guan Li Ping Lun), 2024, 27 (06): 4-15.

Digital Innovation and Firm Investment Efficiency——Based on Text Analysis of Patents, Accounting Research (Kuai Ji Yan Jiu), 2023, (07): 55-71.

Conference Papers (International)

Whom you know matters: Network embeddedness, industrial environment and digital orientation, Academic of Management Proceedings 2024.