Wei Yu

Dr. Wei Yu is an associate professor of economics and accounting and serves as director of the accounting program at Hunter College. She frequently teaches courses in Accounting I and Auditing. What Dr. Yu finds most rewarding as a professor is not only the pursuit of knowledge through research, but also the sharing of that knowledge through teaching and advising.

Dr. Yu's research focuses primarily on auditing, corporate governance and financial accounting. Her papers have been published in various accounting journals such as Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR),  Organizations and Society (AOS), Journal of Management Accounting Research (JMAR), Journal of the American Taxation Association (JATA), Journal of Practice and Theory (AJPT), Accounting Horizons (AH) and Managerial Auditing Journal (MAJ).

Dr. Yu earned her doctorate degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

• Georgia Institute of Technology (PhD)

• “Do High Ability Managers Mitigate Litigation Related to Financial Reporting?” (with Gopal Krishnan and Changjiang Wang), Journal of Management Accounting Research, April 2020.
• “The Relation between Audit Fee Cuts during the Global Financial Crisis and Earnings Quality and Audit Quality” (with Long Chen and Gopal Krishnan), Advances in Accounting, November 2018, Vol. 43: 14-31.
• “Debt Covenant Violations, Firm Financial Distress, and Auditor Actions” (with Gopal Krishnan and Lori Shefchik Bhaskar), Contemporary Accounting Research, Spring 2017, Vol. 34 Issue 1: 186-215.
• “Audited Financial Reporting and Voluntary Disclosure of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Reports” (with Long Chen, Bin Srinidhi, and Albert Tsang), Journal of Management Accounting Research, Summer 2016, Vol. 28 Issue. 2: 53-76.
• “Perspective Taking in Auditor–Manager Interactions: An Experimental Investigation of Auditor Behavior” (with Bryan Church, Marietta Peytcheva and Ong-Ard Singtokul) Accounting, Organizations and Society, August 2015, Vol. 45: 40-51.
• “Do Auditor-Provided Tax Services Enhance or Impair the Value Relevance of Earnings?” (with Gopal Krishnan and Gnanakumar Visvanathan) Journal of the American Taxation Association, Spring 2013, Vol. 35 Issue. 1: 135-141.
• “Do Small Firms Benefit from Auditor Attestation of Internal Control Effectiveness” (with Gopal Krishnan) Auditing: Journal of Practice and Theory, November 2012, Vol. 31 Issue. 4: 115-137.
• “CFO/CEO-Board Social Ties, Sarbanes Oxley, and Earnings Management” (with Gopal Krishnan, K. K. Raman and Ke Yang) Accounting Horizons, September 2011, Vol. 25 Issue. 3: 537-557.
• “Further Evidence on Knowledge Spillover and the Joint Determination of Audit and Non-Audit Fees” (with Gopal Krishnan) Managerial Auditing Journal, 2011, Vol. 26 Issue. 3: 230-247.