• Professor TJ Wong, PhD from UCLA, Chair Professor V joined in July 2004
• Professor Joseph Fan, PhD from Pittsburgh, Professor V joined in September 2004
• Professor Qian Wang, PhD from Stanford, Assistant Professor V joined in July 2003
• Professor George Yang, PhD from Northwestern, Assistant Professor V joined in August 2005
• Professor Yinglei Zhang, PhD from Ohio State, Assistant Professor V joined in August 2005

We will continue to hire new faculty members at both senior and junior levels.

Visitors and workshops

We frequently invite prominent North American researchers to visit our department as Distinguished Visiting Professors. Visitors during the last two years include:

• Professor Robert Bushman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Prof. Lucie Courteau, School of Economics and Management, Free University of Bolzano, Italy
• Professor Mark DeFond, University of Southern California
• Professor Jere Francis, University of Missouri
• Professor Bin Ke, Penn State
• Professor Jevons Lee, Tulane University
• Professor Christian Leuz, University of Chicago
• Professor Randall Morck, Harvard University and University of Alberta
• Prof. Eric Nowak, Institute of Finance, University of Lugano, Switzerland

• Professor Joseph Piostroski, University of Chicago
• Professor Gordon Richardson, University of Toronto
• Prof. Yupana Wiwattanakantang, Center For Economic Institutions, Institute Of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Japan
• Professor Bernard Yeung, NYU

We have an active Friday research workshops, offering 28 workshops over the period from Sept 2005 to August 2005.

Research centers

In July 2005, we established the Center of Institutions and Governance. The Centers objective is to promote and engage in research, organize international conference and facilitate research collaboration of Asian and mainland scholars. We focus on how institutions affect governance, accounting and corporate policies of Asian, especially Chinese firms.
T.J. Wong

Director of Research