| Asst Prof Koh Wei Chern
Assistant Professor
Division of Accounting
College of Business (Nanyang Business School)
Email: AWCKOH@ntu.edu.sg
Phone: (+65)6790 4250
Office: S3-B1B-53 |
| Education |
- PhD (Acc) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 2008
- BAcc(Hons) Nanyang Technological University 2000
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| Biography |
| After receiving her Bachelor degree in Accountancy from Nanyang Technological University, Wei-Chern worked as a tax manager in SingTel. She joined NTU as a senior tutor in 2002. She completed her doctoral degree in accounting at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2008. |
| Research Interests |
| Economic consequences of financial reporting and disclosures. |
| Research Grant |
- Academic Research Fund Tier 1 (2010-)
- RCC (2009-) [by School Research Fund]
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| Current Projects |
- Complementing Reputation Building with Voluntary Disclosures and Positive Inter-Firm Learning Contagion During Firms' Restatements
- Consequences of stock options expensing: As evidenced by lobbying behaviuor and stock options backdating behaviour of firms
| Selected Publications | - Wei Chern Koh. (2011). What drives firms' decisions to lobby and determinants of their lobbying positions: Evidence from firms' comment letter submissions during FASB's stock option expensing proposal in 2004. International Journal of Accounting, 46(1), 1-24.
- Wei Chern Koh. (2010, August ). What drives firms' decisions to lobby and determinants of their lobbying positions: Evidence from firms' comment letter submissions during FASB's stock option expensing proposal in 2004.. Paper presented at American Accounting Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco.
- Wei-Chern Koh. (2010, May ). What drives firms' decisions to lobby and determinants of their lobbying positions: Evidence from firms' comment letter submissions during FASB's stock option expensing proposal in 2004. Paper presented at European Accounting Association Annual Conference 2010, Istanbul-Turkey.
- Doogar, Rajib, Koh, Wei Chern, and Sougiannis, Theodore. (2008, August ). Investor Reaction to First News of Option Backdating Probes. Paper presented at American Accounting Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles.
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