HOU, FANGFANG
Assistant Professor
Email: fangfang.hou@xmu.edu.cn
Research Area: Financial reporting quality; Corporate investment and innovation; Corporate governance; Stock market liberalization;
Education
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
PhD., Accounting , School of Accounting and Finance, July 2019
Central University of Finance and Economics , Beijing, China.
M.A., Industrial Economics(Recommended for admission without examination) , June 2015
B.A., Information Management and System System , June 2013
Field/Discipline
Financial reporting quality; Corporate investment and innovation; Corporate governance; Stock market liberalization;
Teaching
1. Probability and Statistics (Undergraduate)
2. Academic Thesis Writing (Graduate)
Research
I am an Assistant Professor and a Master's Supervisor at Xiamen University, Institute of Financial Management and Accounting (IFRS). I obtained my PhD in Accounting from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2019. Prior to that I obtained both my Bachelor's and Master's degrees at Central University of Finance and Economics. My main research interests include corporate investment and innovation, corporate governance, and information disclosure. My research has been published in Contemporary Accounting Research (SSCI, Top 5 in Accounting), Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance (ESCI), Accounting and Finance (SSCI), and other international journals. I conduct projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Fujian Provincial Social Science Foundation. I have also won several Best Paper Awards at the Corporate Finance and Financial Market Summer Study Camp, the CJAR-ABR Joint Conference, the Jiaotong University Accounting Cooperation Forum, and the International Conference on E-commerce and E-Government. I teach courses such as "Probability and Statistics" and "Academic Thesis Writing".
