Jing Kong, Ph.D.

Jing Kong is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the University of Michigan-Dearborn College of Business. Jing holds a Ph.D. in Accounting and Information Systems from Michigan State University and Master’s degrees from Michigan State University and University of New South Wales.

At Dearborn College of Business, Jing teaches undergraduate and graduate cost accounting and analysis. She has previously taught Intermediate Financial Accounting and Principles of Financial Accounting at Michigan State University Broad College of Business.

Research

My primary research interests include the effects of climate change on firm operations and how external monitoring (such as media, credit rating agencies) shapes corporate environmental policies. I am also interested in using textual analysis and machine-learning approaches to investigate beyond traditional financial data.

Michigan State University- Eli Broad College of Business
      Doctor of Philosophy – Accounting, 2022

University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney- Australian Graduate School of Management
     Master of Philosophy – Finance, June 2017

Michigan State University- Eli Broad College of Business
      Master of Science in Accounting, December 2013

 Zhongnan University of Economics and Law
      Bachelor of Management in Accounting, June 2012

1.       “Green Dies in Darkness? Environmental externalities of newspaper closures” with John (Xuefeng) Jiang. 2023

-          Review of Accounting Studies

2.       “Do Employee Interests Affect Target Board Decisions About Acquisition Offers? Evidence from Changes in Unemployment Insurance” with Lixiong Guo and Ronald W. Masulis. 2024

-          Management Science, Forthcoming

3.       “Information Content of Credit Rating Reports: A Topic Modeling Approach” with John (Xuefeng) Jiang and Michael Shen. 2024

-          British Accounting Review, Forthcoming