Mei Cheng

Contact Information

• 520.621.3786 office
• 520.621.3742 fax
• meicheng@email.arizona.edu
• McClelland Hall 301N

Curriculum Vitae

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SSRN Author Page

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Assistant Professor

• Ph.D. in Accounting, University of Southern California, 2006

Current Courses

• Acct 451, Analysis of Financial Statements,
  Spring 2012

Research Interests

• Financial Reporting and Capital Markets
• Market Intermediaries
• Economic Consequences

Publications and Working Papers

• “Analyst Following and Credit Rating” (with K.R. Subramanyam), Contemporary Accounting Research, Vol. 25, Winter 2008.
• “An Empirical Analysis of Changes in Credit Rating Properties: Timeliness and Stability” (with M. Neamtiu), Journal of Accounting & Economics, Vol. 47, March 2009.
• “Banks’ Asset Securitization and Information Uncertainty” (with D. Dhaliwal and M. Neamtiu) Forthcoming, The Accounting Review
• “Internal Control over Financial Reporting and Empire Building” (with D. Dhaliwal and Y. Zhang)
• “Earnings Guidance and Managerial Myopia” (with K.R. Subramanyam and Y. Zhang)
• “Analyst Quality and the Post-Earnings-Announcement Drift” (with T. Goodman and O. Li)
• “Probability of Meeting/Beating Analysts’ Forecasts and Market Reaction to Earnings
  Announcements” (Thesis)
• “State Laws and Accrual Quality” (with S. Mansi and J. Wald)

Professional Associations

• American Accounting Association

Awards and Honors

• PAC 10 Doctoral Consortium Fellow, University of Oregon, 2005
• PAC 10 Doctoral Consortium Fellow, University of Texas at Austin, 2004
• Doctoral Fellowship, Marshall School of Business, 2001 - 2005