Professor Sterling Huang is a Professor of Accounting at NYU Shanghai. Before joining NYU, he served as an Associate Professor of Accounting at Singapore Management University. Professor Huang earned his Ph.D. and MS in Management from INSEAD Business School, along with an MS in Statistics, a Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting, and a Bachelor of Commerce in Finance (First Class Honors) from Macquarie University in Sydney. Before embarking on his doctoral studies, he gained valuable experience as an auditor with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Sydney.
Professor Huang's research has been widely published in leading academic journals, including the Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Contemporary Accounting Research. His primary research interests focus on how various corporate governance mechanisms can mitigate agency conflicts and enhance corporate decision-making.
His work has been cited extensively in major media outlets and practitioner forums, such as The Wall Street Journal, Thomson Reuters, Bloomberg, INSEAD Knowledge, Harvard Business Review, Booz & Co Strategy & Business Magazine, Barron’s Magazine, Chief Executive Magazine, American Banker Online, IMF’s Finance & Development, the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, and the Columbia Law School’s Blog on Corporations and the Capital Markets.
In addition to his research contributions, Professor Huang serves as an associate editor of the Journal of Corporate Finance, editor of Corporate Governance: An International Review, and editor of China Accounting and Finance Review. He is also a member of the editorial boards for the Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance and the Journal of International Accounting Research.
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Select Publications
- Just Friends? Managers’ Connections to Judges (with Sugata Roychowdhury, Ewa Sletten and Yanping Xu), Journal of Accounting Research.
- The Governance of Director Compensation (with Lily Fang), Journal of Financial Economics 155, 2024, 103813.
- Contracting with Controllable Risk (with Chris Armstrong and Stephen Glaeser) The Accounting Review 97, 2022, pages 27-50.
- Do Innovative Firms Communicate More? Evidence from the Relation between Patenting and Management Guidance (with Jeffrey Ng, Tharindra Ranasinghe and Mingyue Zhang), The Accounting Review 96, 2021, pages 273-297.
- Does Litigation Encourage or Deter Real Earnings Management? (with Sugata Roychowdhury and Ewa Sletten), The Accounting Review 95, 2020, pages 251-278.
Education
PhD, Management
INSEAD Business SchoolMS, Management
INSEAD Business SchoolMS, Statistics
Macquarie UniversityBCom, Accounting
Macquarie UniversityBCom, Finance (1st Class)
Macquarie University
Research Interests
- Corporate Governance
- Legal System
- Contract Design
- Executive Compensation
- Corporate Disclosure