Haidan Li
Haidan Li is an Associate Professor of the Department of Accounting at Santa Clara University. She joined the Santa Clara accounting faculty in 2008, after serving as an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the University of Iowa. She received her Ph.D. in accounting from the University of Texas at Austin, her M.A. from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and her B.A. from Zhongshan University in China. Prior to entering academic life, she spent a year in public accounting in Singapore.
Haidan’s research relates to the use of accounting information for decision making with a focus on financial accounting and corporate governance. She explores many dimensions of usefulness, including the usefulness of accounting information for market valuation (price), firm valuation (value), and other decision-making by investors and security analysts. She examines different types of financial disclosure, including mandatory financial statement information, footnote disclosure, and voluntary disclosure. Her investigations also span different settings, including both U.S. financial reporting and international financial reporting. In addition, Haidan’s research in corporate governance adds to the debate on whether stock-based compensation leads to managerial opportunistic behavior and whether effective corporate governance curbs such behavior. Her research also provides insight on the economic consequences of corporate governance reforms such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
Haidan has published her research in leading scholarly journals including Journal of Accounting and Economics, Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, and Journal of Law and Economics. She has been recognized with the American Accounting Association Competitive Manuscript Award, the Outstanding Paper Award at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence, and the Moskowitz Prize for Socially Responsible Investing, Honorable Mention. Her work has been featured in the business press including the Wall Street Journal. Haidan’s teaching interests are primarily in financial accounting, teaching courses in introductory and intermediate financial accounting at Santa Clara. She has received a number of teaching awards, including the Professor of the Year Award presented by the Santa Clara University Accounting Association.
Haidan and her husband, Ying, have two daughters and live in Saratoga. In her spare time, she travels, reads, hikes, and enjoys spending time with her family and friends.