Dr. Qingwen (Freya) Liang

Degrees and Credentials

Ph.D. Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, P.R. China, 2024

Short Bio

Prior to joining Pitt-Bradford's faculty, Qingwen taught managerial finance and personal finance courses at Central Connecticut State University. Before that, she served as a postdoctoral scholar at the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she applied large language models to address research questions in accounting and finance.

Qingwen likes learning new things. She spends her free time reading and doing photography.
 

Academic Focus

Research Areas: Capital Market, Information Disclosures, Textual Analysis.

Teaching Interests: Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting, Corporate Finance, Personal Finance, Data Analytics.

Research, Accomplishments, and Publications

Q Liang*, & W Huang. The impact of narrative R&D disclosures on bond issuance spreads of Chinese firms.
International Review of Economics & Finance, 2025 (102): 104-299. ABDC-A ABS-2*

Q Liang*, Y Yin, Y Liu, & Q Zhao. Narrative R&D disclosure and bank loans: Evidence from China.
Finance Research Letters, 2024 (62): 105-259. ABDC-A ABS-2*

W Huang, & Q Liang*. Narrative R&D disclosure and insider trading profitability:
Evidence from China. Journal of Accounting and Public Policy , 2024 (45): 107-210. ABDC-A ABS-3*

Luo, H., & Q Liang*.How does capital market trading system affect the
productivity of public firms? Quasi-natural experiment based on margin trading. Nankai Economic Research,
2022 (08): 84-101. (in Chinese)

H Luo, C W Tu, & Q Liang*.The effects of local government official assessment on corporate investments — from the perspective of air pollution governance.Financial Research, 2019 (04): 50-61. (in Chinese)