Mengmeng Wang
Biography
Mengmeng Wang, Ph.D. is a tenure-track assistant accounting professor at the Bryan School of Business and Economics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her teaching interests focus in the area of financial accounting. Her research interests focus on the SEC review and comment letters, management voluntary disclosures, mergers and acquisitions, and ESG, etc. Her works have been published or accepted in top accounting, finance and management journals, including Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Accounting Studies, Management Science, etc. Before joining UNCG, she received her doctorate degree in accounting from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She also has work experience in banking industry.
Education
Ph.D. in Accounting, State University of New York at Buffalo (2019)
M.S. in Accounting, Marquette University (2013)
B.S. in Financial Management, Tianjin University (2010).
Research/Publications
Managerial Overextrapolation: Who and When (with Dayong Huang, Lijun Lei, and Yuhang Xing). 2024. Accepted at Management Science.
iXBRL Adoption and the Pricing of Audit Services (with Xu Cheng, Adi Masli, Stephanie Walton, and Yiyang Zhang). 2024. Journal of Information Systems, forthcoming.
When the Presidential Candidate Comes to Town: The Impact of Donald J. Trump’s Campaign Rallies on Local Firms’ Environmental and Social Performance (with Feng Guo, Yonghong Liu and Yiyang Zhang). 2023. Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 186: 531–552.
SEC Comment Letters on Form S-4 and M&A Accounting Quality (with Bret Johnson, Ling Lei Lisic, and Joon Seok Moon). 2023. Review of Accounting Studies, vol. 28(2): 862-909.
Does Target Firm Insider Trading Signal Synergies in Mergers and Acquisitions? (with Inho Suk). 2021. Journal of Financial Economics, 142(3):1155-1185.