Allen Hao HUANG
黃昊
PhD in Business Administration
Duke University, 2007

Associate Dean of Business and Management (UG Programs)

Associate Professor
Department of Accounting

Associate Director of Center for Business and Social Analytics



(852) 2358 7559
acahuang@ust.hk
Room LSK6013
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ORCID
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Scopus ID
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Research Interest Publications Projects Teaching Assignment RPG Supervision Space used




Research Interest

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Capital markets
Earnings management
Financial analysts
Earnings quality
Executive compensation



Publications

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All Years 25 2022 0 2021 5 2020 2 2019 1 2018 3 2017 4 2016 10

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2021 5

The unintended benefit of the risk factor mandate of 2005
Review of Accounting Studies, 14 April 2021
Huang, Hao; Shen, Jinghua; Zang, Yunzhi Article
Expropriation Risk and Investment: A Natural Experiment
South Western Finance Association (SWFA) 2020 Annual Conference, Virtual, San Antonio, TX, 11-14 March 2021
Bhambhwani, Siddharth Mohankumar; Huang, Allen Hao; Hui, Dong Conference paper
Expropriation Risk and Investment: A Natural Experiment
Hawaii Accounting Research Conference, HARC 2021, Virtual, University of Hawaii, 3-5 January 2021
Bhambhwani, Siddharth Mohankumar; Huang, Allen; Dong, Hui Conference paper
Expropriation Risk and Investment: A Natural Experiment
57th Annual Eastern Finance Association (EFA) Meeting, Virtual, 7-10 April 2021
Bhambhwani, Siddharth Mohankumar; Huang, Hao; Hui, Dong Conference paper
Expropriation Risk and Investment: A Natural Experiment
European Accounting Association Annual Congress 2021, Virtual, 26 - 28 May 2021
Bhambhwani, Siddharth Mohankumar; Huang, Allen; Dong, Hui Conference paper

2020 2

Expropriation Risk and Investment: A Natural Experiment
The 11th International Conference of The Japanese Accounting Review, TJAR 2020, Virtual, Japan, 26 December 2020
Bhambhwani, Siddharth Mohankumar; Huang, Allen; Dong, Hui Conference paper
Judicial Precedents on GAAP Violations, Litigation Risk and Misreporting
American Accounting Association (AAA) Financial Accounting and Reporting Section (FARS) Midyear Meeting, Nashville, TN, USA, 23-25 January 2020
Franke, Benedikt; Huang, Allen Hao; Li, Reeyarn Conference paper

2019 1

Federal Judge Ideology: A New Measure of Ex Ante Litigation Risk
Journal of Accounting Research, v. 57, (2), May 2019, p. 431-489
Huang, Hao; Hui, Kai Wai; Li, Reeyarn Zhiyang Article

2018 3

Analyst Information Discovery and Interpretation Roles: A Topic Modeling Approach
Management Science, v. 64, (6), June 2018, p. 2833-2855
Huang, Hao; Lehavy, Reuven; Zang, Yunzhi; Zheng, Rong Article
Credit Rating Agencies and Accounting Frauds
41th Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association (EAA 2018), Milan, Italy, 30 May - 1 June 2018
Huang, Hao; Kraft, Pepa; Wang, Shiheng Conference paper
Federal Judge Ideology: A New Measure of Ex-Ante Litigation Risk
2018 Journal of Accounting Research Conference, Chicago, USA, 11-12 May 2018
Huang, Allen Hao; Hui, Kai Wai; Li, Reeyarn Zhiyang Conference paper

2017 4

Imperfect Accounting and Reporting Bias
Journal of Accounting Research, v. 55, (4), September 2017, p. 919-962
Fung, Vivian W.; Huang, Allen Hao; Wang, Wenyu Article
Imperfect Accounting and Reporting Bias
The 2016 Midyear Meeting of the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section (AAA FARS), Newport Beach, California, 22-23 January 2016
Wang, Wenyu; Huang, Allen H.; Fang, Vivian Conference paper
The Long-Term Consequence of Short-Term Incentives
2017 Duke/UNC Fall Camp, USA, 20-21 October 2017
Edmans, alex; Fang, vivian; Huang, Allen Hao Conference paper
The Long-Term Consequence of Short-Term Incentives
2017 Stanford Theory and Inference in Capital Market Research conference, Stanford University, 8-9 December 2017
Edmans, alex; Fang, vivian; Huang, Allen Hao Conference paper

2016 3

Short Selling and Earnings Management: A Controlled Experiment
Journal of Finance, v. 71, (3), June 2016, p. 1251-1294
Fang, Vivian W.; Huang, Allen H.; Karpoff, Jonathan M. Article
Federal judge ideology: A new measure of ex-ante litigation risk
MIT Asia Conference in Accounting, Xiamen, China, 11-12 July, 2016
Huang, Allen; Hui, Kai Wai; Li, Reeyarn Conference paper
Imperfect accounting and reporting bias
MIT Asia Conference in Accounting, Xiamen, China, 11-12 July, 2016
Fang, Vivian; Huang, Allen; Wang, Wenyu Conference paper

2015 1

Analyst Information Discovery and Information Interpretation Roles: A Topic Modeling Approach
Symposium on Statistical Challenges in eCommerce Research 2015 (SCECR 2015), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 23-25 June 2015
Huang, Hao; Lehavy, Reuven; Zang, Yunzhi; Zheng, Rong Conference paper

2014 3

Evidence on the Information Content of Text in Analyst Reports
Accounting Review, v. 89, (6), November 2014, p. 2151-2180
Huang, Hao; Zang, Yunzhi; Zheng, Rong Article
A Thematic Analysis of Analyst Information Discovery and Information Interpretation Roles
The 8th China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM 2014), Chengdu, China, 21-22 June 2014
Huang, Allen H.; Lehavy, Reuven; Zang, Amy Y.; Zheng, Rong Conference paper
Analyst Information Discovery and Information Interpretation Roles: A Topic Modeling Approach
The 2014 Workshop on Internet and BigData Finance (WIBF 2014), Hong Kong, 7 June 2014
Huang, Allen; Lehavy, Reuven; Zang, Amy; Zheng, Rong Conference paper

2010 1

Informativeness of Text in Analyst Reports: A Na?ve Bayes Machine Learning Approach
2010 HKUST Accounting Research Symposium, Hong Kong, December 17-18, 2010
Huang, Allen; Zang, Amy; Zheng, Rong Conference paper

2008 1

CEO Reputation and Earnings Quality
Contemporary Accounting Research, v. 25, (1), Spring 2008, p. 109-147
Francis, Jennifer; Huang, Allen H.; Rajgopal, Shivaram; Zang, Amy Y. Article

2005 1

Bold security analysts' earnings forecasts and managers' Information Flow
AAA 2005 FARS Meeting Paper, 2005
Huang, Allen H.; Willis, Richard H.; Zang, Amy Y. Conference paper


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Article 1

The unintended benefit of the risk factor mandate of 2005
Review of Accounting Studies, 14 April 2021
Huang, Hao; Shen, Jinghua; Zang, Yunzhi

Conference paper 4

Expropriation Risk and Investment: A Natural Experiment
South Western Finance Association (SWFA) 2020 Annual Conference, Virtual, San Antonio, TX, 11-14 March 2021
Bhambhwani, Siddharth Mohankumar; Huang, Allen Hao; Hui, Dong
Expropriation Risk and Investment: A Natural Experiment
Hawaii Accounting Research Conference, HARC 2021, Virtual, University of Hawaii, 3-5 January 2021
Bhambhwani, Siddharth Mohankumar; Huang, Allen; Dong, Hui
Expropriation Risk and Investment: A Natural Experiment
57th Annual Eastern Finance Association (EFA) Meeting, Virtual, 7-10 April 2021
Bhambhwani, Siddharth Mohankumar; Huang, Hao; Hui, Dong
Expropriation Risk and Investment: A Natural Experiment
European Accounting Association Annual Congress 2021, Virtual, 26 - 28 May 2021
Bhambhwani, Siddharth Mohankumar; Huang, Allen; Dong, Hui


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Conference paper 2

Expropriation Risk and Investment: A Natural Experiment
The 11th International Conference of The Japanese Accounting Review, TJAR 2020, Virtual, Japan, 26 December 2020
Bhambhwani, Siddharth Mohankumar; Huang, Allen; Dong, Hui
Judicial Precedents on GAAP Violations, Litigation Risk and Misreporting
American Accounting Association (AAA) Financial Accounting and Reporting Section (FARS) Midyear Meeting, Nashville, TN, USA, 23-25 January 2020
Franke, Benedikt; Huang, Allen Hao; Li, Reeyarn


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Article 1

Federal Judge Ideology: A New Measure of Ex Ante Litigation Risk
Journal of Accounting Research, v. 57, (2), May 2019, p. 431-489
Huang, Hao; Hui, Kai Wai; Li, Reeyarn Zhiyang


Expand All Collapse All


Article 1

Analyst Information Discovery and Interpretation Roles: A Topic Modeling Approach
Management Science, v. 64, (6), June 2018, p. 2833-2855
Huang, Hao; Lehavy, Reuven; Zang, Yunzhi; Zheng, Rong

Conference paper 2

Credit Rating Agencies and Accounting Frauds
41th Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association (EAA 2018), Milan, Italy, 30 May - 1 June 2018
Huang, Hao; Kraft, Pepa; Wang, Shiheng
Federal Judge Ideology: A New Measure of Ex-Ante Litigation Risk
2018 Journal of Accounting Research Conference, Chicago, USA, 11-12 May 2018
Huang, Allen Hao; Hui, Kai Wai; Li, Reeyarn Zhiyang


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Article 1

Imperfect Accounting and Reporting Bias
Journal of Accounting Research, v. 55, (4), September 2017, p. 919-962
Fung, Vivian W.; Huang, Allen Hao; Wang, Wenyu

Conference paper 3

Imperfect Accounting and Reporting Bias
The 2016 Midyear Meeting of the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section (AAA FARS), Newport Beach, California, 22-23 January 2016
Wang, Wenyu; Huang, Allen H.; Fang, Vivian
The Long-Term Consequence of Short-Term Incentives
2017 Duke/UNC Fall Camp, USA, 20-21 October 2017
Edmans, alex; Fang, vivian; Huang, Allen Hao
The Long-Term Consequence of Short-Term Incentives
2017 Stanford Theory and Inference in Capital Market Research conference, Stanford University, 8-9 December 2017
Edmans, alex; Fang, vivian; Huang, Allen Hao


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Article 1

Short Selling and Earnings Management: A Controlled Experiment
Journal of Finance, v. 71, (3), June 2016, p. 1251-1294
Fang, Vivian W.; Huang, Allen H.; Karpoff, Jonathan M.

Conference paper 2

Federal judge ideology: A new measure of ex-ante litigation risk
MIT Asia Conference in Accounting, Xiamen, China, 11-12 July, 2016
Huang, Allen; Hui, Kai Wai; Li, Reeyarn
Imperfect accounting and reporting bias
MIT Asia Conference in Accounting, Xiamen, China, 11-12 July, 2016
Fang, Vivian; Huang, Allen; Wang, Wenyu


Expand All Collapse All


Conference paper 1

Analyst Information Discovery and Information Interpretation Roles: A Topic Modeling Approach
Symposium on Statistical Challenges in eCommerce Research 2015 (SCECR 2015), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 23-25 June 2015
Huang, Hao; Lehavy, Reuven; Zang, Yunzhi; Zheng, Rong


Expand All Collapse All


Article 1

Evidence on the Information Content of Text in Analyst Reports
Accounting Review, v. 89, (6), November 2014, p. 2151-2180
Huang, Hao; Zang, Yunzhi; Zheng, Rong

Conference paper 2

A Thematic Analysis of Analyst Information Discovery and Information Interpretation Roles
The 8th China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM 2014), Chengdu, China, 21-22 June 2014
Huang, Allen H.; Lehavy, Reuven; Zang, Amy Y.; Zheng, Rong
Analyst Information Discovery and Information Interpretation Roles: A Topic Modeling Approach
The 2014 Workshop on Internet and BigData Finance (WIBF 2014), Hong Kong, 7 June 2014
Huang, Allen; Lehavy, Reuven; Zang, Amy; Zheng, Rong


Expand All Collapse All


Conference paper 1

Informativeness of Text in Analyst Reports: A Na?ve Bayes Machine Learning Approach
2010 HKUST Accounting Research Symposium, Hong Kong, December 17-18, 2010
Huang, Allen; Zang, Amy; Zheng, Rong


Expand All Collapse All


Article 1

CEO Reputation and Earnings Quality
Contemporary Accounting Research, v. 25, (1), Spring 2008, p. 109-147
Francis, Jennifer; Huang, Allen H.; Rajgopal, Shivaram; Zang, Amy Y.


Expand All Collapse All


Conference paper 1

Bold security analysts' earnings forecasts and managers' Information Flow
AAA 2005 FARS Meeting Paper, 2005
Huang, Allen H.; Willis, Richard H.; Zang, Amy Y.


Expand All Collapse All


2016 3

Short Selling and Earnings Management: A Controlled Experiment
Journal of Finance, v. 71, (3), June 2016, p. 1251-1294
Fang, Vivian W.; Huang, Allen H.; Karpoff, Jonathan M. Article
Federal judge ideology: A new measure of ex-ante litigation risk
MIT Asia Conference in Accounting, Xiamen, China, 11-12 July, 2016
Huang, Allen; Hui, Kai Wai; Li, Reeyarn Conference paper
Imperfect accounting and reporting bias
MIT Asia Conference in Accounting, Xiamen, China, 11-12 July, 2016
Fang, Vivian; Huang, Allen; Wang, Wenyu Conference paper

2015 1

Analyst Information Discovery and Information Interpretation Roles: A Topic Modeling Approach
Symposium on Statistical Challenges in eCommerce Research 2015 (SCECR 2015), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 23-25 June 2015
Huang, Hao; Lehavy, Reuven; Zang, Yunzhi; Zheng, Rong Conference paper

2014 3

Evidence on the Information Content of Text in Analyst Reports
Accounting Review, v. 89, (6), November 2014, p. 2151-2180
Huang, Hao; Zang, Yunzhi; Zheng, Rong Article
A Thematic Analysis of Analyst Information Discovery and Information Interpretation Roles
The 8th China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM 2014), Chengdu, China, 21-22 June 2014
Huang, Allen H.; Lehavy, Reuven; Zang, Amy Y.; Zheng, Rong Conference paper
Analyst Information Discovery and Information Interpretation Roles: A Topic Modeling Approach
The 2014 Workshop on Internet and BigData Finance (WIBF 2014), Hong Kong, 7 June 2014
Huang, Allen; Lehavy, Reuven; Zang, Amy; Zheng, Rong Conference paper

2010 1

Informativeness of Text in Analyst Reports: A Na?ve Bayes Machine Learning Approach
2010 HKUST Accounting Research Symposium, Hong Kong, December 17-18, 2010
Huang, Allen; Zang, Amy; Zheng, Rong Conference paper

2008 1

CEO Reputation and Earnings Quality
Contemporary Accounting Research, v. 25, (1), Spring 2008, p. 109-147
Francis, Jennifer; Huang, Allen H.; Rajgopal, Shivaram; Zang, Amy Y. Article

2005 1

Bold security analysts' earnings forecasts and managers' Information Flow
AAA 2005 FARS Meeting Paper, 2005
Huang, Allen H.; Willis, Richard H.; Zang, Amy Y. Conference paper


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Teaching Assignment

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2021-22 Winter 1 2021-22 Fall 1 2020-21 Summer 3 2020-21 Spring 3 2020-21 Winter 2 2020-21 Fall 2

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SBMT3300I Business Competitions


ACCT5801 Cryptocurrency, Blockchain and Their Business Applications


SBMT3300H Business Competitions
UROP1000 Undergraduate Research Opportunities
UROP1100D Undergraduate Research Opportunities Series 1


ACCT5801 Cryptocurrency, Blockchain and Their Business Applications
SBMT1111 Business Student Induction
SBMT3200O Corporate Project


SBMT3200O Corporate Project
SBMT3300G Business Competitions


ACCT5801 Cryptocurrency, Blockchain and Their Business Applications
SBMT1111 Business Student Induction






Research Postgraduate (RPG) Supervision From January 2019 to December 2022 (As of 30 January 2022)

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Current RPGs

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Doctor of Philosophy CUI, Jie (co-supervision)
Financial Technology( 2021 - )

DE LAVAISSIERE DE LAVERGNE, Cyril Jonathan (co-supervision)
Financial Technology( 2021 - )

TANG, Xiaorui (co-supervision)
Financial Technology( 2021 - )

WANG, Hui
Accounting( 2021 - )

WANG, Juanting
Accounting( 2021 - )

ZHANG, Yibin (co-supervision)
Financial Technology( 2021 - )

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Master of Philosophy ZHUANG, Qianqian (co-supervision)
Financial Technology( 2021 - )









ProjectsFrom January 2020 to December 2022

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All Projects 4 Leading Projects 1 Participating Projects 3

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Developing Hong Kong as a Global Green Finance Centre


發展香港成為全球的綠色金融中心 Participating


RGC - Theme-based Research Scheme


Project Team (HKUST)
ZHANG Chu (Lead)
CHEN Zhanhui
DELINA Laurence Laurencio
FUNG Jimmy Chi Hung
HUANG Allen Hao
HUI Kai Lung
IM Eun Soon
LAFON-VINAIS Veronique J A
LAU Alexis Kai Hon
LI Yingying
LOH Kung Wai Christine
MUKHERJEE Abhiroop
PANAYOTOV George Kamenov
PARK Albert Francis
QI Ye
SHI Xiaoming
STEUER Benjamin
TAM Kar Yan
ZALDOKAS Alminas


2022 -




Contributing to the Development of Hong Kong into a Global Fintech Hub


促進香港成為全球的金融科技樞紐 Participating


RGC - Theme-based Research Scheme


Project Team (HKUST)
TAM Kar Yan (Lead)
BHATTACHARYA Utpal
CHEN Yanzhen
HUANG Allen Hao
HUI Kai Lung
JAMES Lancelot Fitzgerald
LI Yingying
LING Shiqing
SO Mike Ka Pui
XU Yan
YANG Yi
YEUNG Dit Yan
YOU Haifeng
ZHANG Chu
ZHENG Rong
ZHENG Xinghua


2019 -




Analyst Conflicts of Interest: Evidence from Analyst Report Text


金融分析師的利益沖突：基于分析師報告里文字的證據 Participating


RGC - General Research Fund


Project Team (HKUST)
ZANG Amy Yunzhi (Lead)
HUANG Allen Hao


2019 - 2021




Short sellers and earnings information Leading


RGC - Direct Allocation Grant


Project Team (HKUST)
HUANG Allen Hao (Lead)


2010 -