Index - Assistant Professor

Name

Wenwei LIN

Title

Assistant Professor

Education Background

Ph.D. in Business Administration (Accounting), University of Minnesota
Research Foundations in Accounting (Pre-Doc Program), University of Texas at Dallas
B.S. in Mathematics & Finance, Xiamen University

Research

Capital Market Research, Corporate Disclosure, Social Media

Personal Website

https://sites.google.com/view/wenwei-lin/home

linwenwei@cuhk.edu.cn

Office Address

Phone

Teaching Area

Accounting

Other

Biography

Wenwei Lin received his Ph.D. degree in Accounting from the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota in 2024. Wenwei's research lies at the intersection of Fintech and Financial Accounting. His recent work has studied issues related to trading innovation and friction, information disclosure, and cryptocurrencies. He has published in Review of Financial Studies and Behavioral Research in Accounting. In 2025, Wenwei received the Notable Contribution to Accounting Literature Award from the American Accounting Association for his coauthored paper "Is There a Confidence Interval for That? A Critical Examination of Null Outcome Reporting in Accounting Research".

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Awards and honors

Publications

1. “Fractional Trading”, with Zhi Da and Vivian Fang, Review of Financial Studies, 2025, 38(3), 623-660.
- Editor's Choice
- Mentioned in the SEC's proposed rule on Order Competition Rule and Regulation Best Execution.

2. “Is There a Confidence Interval for That? A Critical Examination of Null Outcome Reporting in Accounting Research”, with William Cready, Jiapeng He, Chengdao Shao, Di Wang, and Yang Zhang, Behavioral Research in Accounting, 2022, 34(1), 43 – 72.

- Prize recipient of 2025 Notable Contribution to Accounting Literature Award from the American Accounting Association

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