Research Interests: Corporate tax, influence of agency issues on tax planning, including governance mechanisms, and the role of uncertainty in shaping tax planning, including risk assessment.
Office: Hagey Hall 174B
Email: clchen@uwaterloo.ca
Research Interests: Capital markets research on financial accounting issues, time-series attributes, stock pricing, consequences of new accounting rules, and market inefficiencies in recognition of accounting information.
Research Interests: The role of non-financial information in assessing and predicting firm performance, and the impact of disclosure and communications on the firm’s cost of capital and stock price crash risk.
Research Interests: Intersection of Financial Reporting, Assurance, and Governance.
Research Interests: Earnings management and the impact of the US sub-prime crisis on Canadian financial institutions.
Research Interests: Effects of tax on corporate decision making, corporate data, factors that influence the role of taxes in international operations, and examine settings in which decisions may have been predictably altered in response to tax environments.
Research Interests: Financial disclosure, corporate governance, related party transactions and debt contracting.
Research Interests: Information Environment, Accounting Regulations, Financial Institutions, Firms' Disclosure Activities.
Research Interests: Corporate governance, economic consequences of accounting information and disclosure, financial statement analysis and valuation, and accounting for financial institutions.
Research Interests: Economics of information technology (IT), how firms leverage IT enabled strategies to achieve and sustain competitive advantage and superior financial performance.
Research Interests: Managerial performance evaluation, corporate governance, organization designs and information disclosure.
Research Interests: Corporate tax avoidance, the interaction between financial reporting and taxation, and international tax issues.