Faculty & Staff Directory

Xiaoyan (Winnie) Wen

Associate Professor
Accounting Department

Education

  • PhD,Carnegie Mellon University
  • MS, Carnegie Mellon University
  • BS, Tsinghua University

Areas of Expertise/Research

  • Financial Reporting and Disclosure
  • Management Forecast and Guidance
  • Debt Contracting
  • Incentive Compensation

Selected Publications

  • “Financial Leverage, Information Quality, and Efficiency,” with Lin Nan. Contemporary Accounting Research, Summer 2023, Volume 40 Issue 2: 1082-1106
  • “Penalties, Manipulation, and Investment Efficiency,” with Lin Nan. Management Science. Vol. 65, No. 10, 2019, pp. 4878–4900. The paper was featured in the news of Krannert School of Management Faculty Research.
  • “Information Quality and Endogenous Project Outcome,” with Lin Nan and Mingcherng Deng. Contemporary Accounting Research, 2019, Volume 36 Issue 2: 732-757.
  • “Financing and Investment Efficiency, Information Quality, and Accounting Biases,” with Lin Nan, Management Science, September 2014, Volume 60, No. 9, 2308-2323.
  • “Voluntary Disclosure and Investment,” sole-authored, Contemporary Accounting Research, 2013, Volume 30 Issue 2: 677-696.

Honors and Awards

  • TCU Neeley Five Year Service Award 2020
  • Bob Vigeland Excellence in Accounting Research Award, Neeley School of Business 2019
  • UIC College of Business Administration Five Year Service Award 2014
  • UIC Favorite Undergraduate Accounting Professor Award 2013
  • William Larimer Mellon Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University 2004 - 2007