Pierre Jinghong Liang

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Associate Professor of Accounting

Teaching and Research Interests:

• Financial accounting, managerial accounting and information economics.

Website and/or personal homepage:
http://www.gsia.cmu.edu/andrew/liangj/

Published Papers: 

• Quasi-Robust Mutliagent Contracts
  Management Science 55, 2009; 752-762.
  (With: Jonathan Glover, Anil Arya, Joel Demski)
  
  
• Optimal Team Size and Monitoring in Organizations
  Accounting Review 83, May 2008.
  (With: Madhav V. Rajan, Korok Ray)
  
  
• Accounting Measurement Basis, Market Mispricing, and Firm Investment Efficiency
  Journal of Accounting Research 45, March 2007; 155-197.
  (With: Xiaoyan Wen)
  
  
• Accounting Treatment of Inherent versus Incentive Uncertainties and the Capital Structure of the Firm
  Journal of Accounting Research 44, March 2006; 145-176.
  (With: Xiao-Jun Zhang)
  
  
• Profit Sharing and Monitoring in Partnerships
  Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2005.
  (With: Steven J. Huddart)
  
  
• Equilibrium Earnings Management, Incentive Contracts, and Accounting Standards
  Contemporary Accounting Research 21, 2004; 685-718.
  
  
• Accounting in Partnerships
  American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings of the Annual Meetings of American Economic Associations 93, 2003; 410-414.
  (With: Steven J. Huddart)
  
  
• Accounting Recognition: An Information Content Perspective
  Accounting Horizons 15, 2001; 223-42.
  
  
• Accounting Recognition, Moral Hazard, and Communication
  Contemporary Accounting Research 17, 2000; 457-90.
  
  

Working Papers: 

• Contracting for Educational Achievement
  January, 2009.
  (With: Maria Ferreyra)
  
  
• Limited Managerial Attention and Endogenous Precision of Performance Measures
  December, 2008.
  (With: Lin Nan)
  
  
• Managerial Attention, Endogenous Performance Variance, and Incentive Contracts
  June, 2008.
  (With: Lin Nan)
  
  
• New Classical Income Measurement: A Choice-Theoretic Axiomatic Approach
  June, 2006.
  (With: Jeremy Bertomeu)
  
  
• Accrual Accounting for Debt and Equity Investors
  January, 2002.
  (With: Xiao-Jun Zhang)
  
  

Publications: 

• Essays in Accounting Theory in Honour of Joel S. Demski,, Springer Publishers: Norwell, MA, (January, 2007).
  
  

Awards:

• Excellence in the Classroom Award, Undergraduate Business Administration - 2007-2008
• Arthur Andersen Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship - 1997-1998
• American Accounting Association Doctoral Consortium - 1995