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Prof. HU Xiaoli

胡曉莉教授

Department of Accountancy

Assistant Professor

Address
13-216, Lau Ming Wai Academic Building, City University of Hong Kong
Phone
+852 34422933
Fax
+852 34420349
Email
xiaolhu@cityu.edu.hk

Research Areas

Tax
Big data
Disclosure

Qualifications

Ph.D. - Accounting (National University of Singapore)
MA - Accounting (Nanjing University)
BA - Accounting (Nanjing University)

Biography

Dr. Hu received her Ph.D. in Accounting from the National University of Singapore in 2018. Her research interests mainly include tax, big data, and financial accounting. 

She led the reform of the Accounting Information System course to make it data analytics-oriented. She was nominated for the University Teaching Excellence Award. She is also a guest speaker on AI accounting at education forums organized by HKUST and CUHK respectively. 

She received several research and teaching grants. She is currently the P-I and project coordinator for the grant "Sustainability Meets Technology: A Novel Approach of Sustainability Education through a Student-led ESG Analytics Platform" (IICA-TDG, amount $985,099, from 2023-2025). 

Professionally, Dr. Hu received the Deloitte Tax Championship (First Runner-up) in 2008. 

Research Grants

PI: "Sustainability Meets Technology: A Novel Approach of Sustainability Education through a Student-led ESG Analytics Platform", IICA-TDG - University Grants Committee, Amount: 985,099 (2023-2025), Dr. Xiaoli Hu, Dr. Alex Zhang, Dr. Xiaowei Luo, Dr. Minghua Chen

PI: "Banks' Technology Expertise and Cost of Debt: Evidence from Syndicated Loans", GRF - RGC, Amount: 320334 (2022-2024), Xiaoli Hu

PI: " Repatriation Tax and Firm Productivity: Evidence from American Jobs Creation Act 2004", SRG grant - City University, Amount: HKD 100,000.00 (2021-2023), Xiaoli HU

PI: "Bank Concentration, Loan Pricing and Syndication S", SRG grant - City University Internal Grant, Amount: HKD 100,000.00 (2020-2022), Xiaoli HU

PI: "The Real Consequence of Banks' Loan Loss Provision Reporting: Evidence from Individual Borrowers ", Start-up Grant - City University of Hong Kong, Amount: 399600 (2018-2020), Hu Xiaoli

Selected Publications

Journal Publications and Reviews

Hu, Xiaoli; Kang, Ya; Li, Oliver Zhen; Lin, Yupeng / Trump election and minority CEO pessimism. March 2025; In: Review of Accounting Studies. Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 950-993

Hu, Xiaoli; Li, Oliver Zhen; Li, Yuehua; Pei, Sha / Positive Externality of the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004. March 2021; In: Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. Vol. 56, No. 2, pp. 607-646

Hu, Xiaoli; Li, Oliver Zhen; Pei, Sha / Of stars and galaxies — Co-authorship network and research. March 2020; In: China Journal of Accounting Research. Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 1-30

Liang, Shangkun; Chen, Dong; Hu, Xiaoli / External auditor types and the cost stickiness of listed companies. December 2014; In: China Journal of Accounting Studies. Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 294-322

Conference Papers

Hu, Xiaoli; Huang, Li; Li, Oliver Zhen; Zhang, Zilong / LGBT Employment Nondiscrimination and Capital Structure. June 2023; 2023 Canadian Academic Accounting Association (CAAA) Annual Conference, 08/08/2021 - 10/08/2021, Québec City, Canada.

Hu, Xiaoli; Li, Zhen; Pei, Sha; Li, Yuehua / Positive Externality of the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004. May 2019; 9th CityU-NTU-SUFE Joint Accounting Research Workshop 2019, 17/05/2019 - 18/05/2019, , Hong Kong.

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