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Yanfeng Xue

Yanfeng Xue

Title: Assistant Professor of Accountancy

Department: Accountancy

Address: Funger Hall, Suite 601R

Phone: (202) 994-6747

Email: yxue@gwu.edu

Degrees: PhD in Accounting, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004 MA in Economics, Tufts University, 1998 BS in Finance, Renmin University of China (People’s University of China), 1996

Areas of Expertise: Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting, Capital Markets, and Corporate Governance

Prior to joining GW, Xue was an assistant professor of accounting at the University of Texas at Austin. She was also an energy-trading, risk-management analyst at AES NewEnergy in Boston, Massachusetts, and a finance manager at Shell Group in Beijing, China.

Xue’s research focuses on how financial information affects decision making in the capital market. Her work has been published in the Review of Accounting Studies.