Biography

Cai Chen received her Ph.D. degree in Accounting from INSEAD and her Master's degree in Accounting from the University of Arizona. Prior to her Ph.D., she worked at Ernst & Young in the U.S. and PricewaterhouseCoopers in Singapore. Her research focuses on information frictions in the capital market and how reporting, information intermediaries, and third-party verification help mitigate these frictions. Currently, her research centers on information frictions related to companies' sustainability performance.


Publications

1. Scrutinizing ESG Assurance through the Lens of Reporting (solo-author, job market paper)

Under Review

Available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4855780

2. Mandated Environmental Liability Recognition and the Voluntary Disclosure of ESG Information

(with Daniel Bens and Peter Joos)

Under Review

Available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4065940

3. ESG rating competition and rating quality (with Svenja Dube and Shiran Vaknin Froymovich)

-2nd round Revise & Resubmit at Journal of Accounting Research

4. Bank lending upon global coordination failure of decarbonization (with Yupeng Lin, Joban Sulaeman and Wanrong Xu)

Preparing for submission

Available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4386524

5. The Value of NGOs in ESG (with Janja Brendel, Thomas Keusch, and Zacharias Sautner)

Preparing for submission

Available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4758829