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• Accounting/Finance Faculty & Staff
• Raymond Shaffer
• Jennifer Cambouris
• Joseph Antenucci
• Peter Chen
• Gregory Claypool
• Wayne Counts
• Marsha Huber
• David Law
• Jill McCullough
• Kathleen Mumaw
• Elsa Parsegian
• Karin Petruska
• Norbert Pierre
• David Stout
• James Tackett
• Ronald Volpe
• Fran Wolf
• Peter Woodlock
• Xiaolou Yang

DR. XIAOLOU YANGAssistant Professor xyang AT ysu DOT edu330-941-1879

EDUCATIONPh.D. The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 2006M.S. The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 2002M.A. Kansas State University, Kansas, KS, 2001B.A. Jilin University, China Aug. 1996AREAS OF INTERESTCorporate Finance Corporate Governance PUBLICATIONSYang, X. and Yang, R. “Managerial decisions on annual earnings announcement timing,” Journal of Applied Business Research, forthcoming. Yang, X., 2010. “The effect of annual earnings announcement delay on stock returns,” Journal of Applied Research in Finance, Vol. II, Issue 1 (3), p84-90. Yang, X., 2009. “Does Uncertainty Affect Central Bank‘s Optimal Monetary Policy?” Journal of Global Commerce Research, Vol. 1, No. 1, P1-15. (Lead article of the issue. 2009 Best Paper Award granted by Global Business Development Institute). Yang, X., 2007. “Can the Classical Mean-Variance Portfolio Model Be Saved?” International Journal of Business, Accounting and Finance, Vol. 1, No. 1, p14-25. Yang, X., 2006. “Improving Portfolio Efficiency: A Genetic Algorithm Approach,” Computational Economics, Vol. 28, Issue 1, p1-14. (Lead article of the issue)

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