Dr. Liu is an Associate Professor in Accounting at the Department of Accounting and Finance at Morgan State University. Prior to joining Morgan State, Dr. Liu worked as an assistant professor at the Adelphi University in New York. She obtained her Ph.D. in Accounting from CUNY-Baruch in 2016. She also has a BBA (Accounting) from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and a MS in Accountancy from the University of Notre Dame. Dr. Liu has taught various accounting courses including the Principles of Accounting I, Principles of Accounting II, Cost Accounting and Financial Statement Analysis. 

Dr. Liu's research interests include empirical financial accounting topics related to auditing, ethics, firm disclosures, managerial characteristics and capital market, etc. Her articles have appeared in journals such as the Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Review of Accounting and Finance, International Journal of Auditing, etc.  Dr. Liu has presented her work in a number of national and international academic conferences such as the American Accounting Association Annual Meetings, the American Accounting Association Regional Meetings (Southeast and Mid-Atlantic), Hawaii Accounting Research Conference, Annual Conference on Pacific Basin Finance, Economics, Accounting and Management, etc.

In her spare time, Dr. Liu enjoys going to movies, playing piano, traveling and sight-seeing.

Research Interests

Empirical financial accounting research in the area of auditing, managerial characteristics, and capital market including the stock price crash and jump risk.

Publications

• Zhou, Y., Liu, J. & D., Lei (2024), "Is Audit Firms’ Social Performance Associated with Audit Firm Reputation? Evidence from China", International Journal of Auditing, Accepted and Forthcoming.
• Yu Zhou, Jiaxin Liu, Yakun Wang & Wen Zhang (2022), “Do charitable auditors deliver better audit quality? Evidence from Chinese CPAs”, Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting & Economics, DOI: 10.1080/16081625.2022.2026233
• Lei, D., & Liu, J. (2022), “The role of financial reporting quality in selecting new audit committee member”, Journal of Corporate Accounting & Finance, 33:52-71.
• Zhou, Y., Liu, J.and Lei, D. (2022), "The effect of financial reporting regimes on audit report lags and audit fees: evidence from firms cross-listed in the USA", Journal of Financial Reporting and Accounting, Vol. and No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/JFRA-09-2021-0261.
•  Liu, J.and Lei, D. (2021), "Managerial ability and stock price crash risk – the role of managerial overconfidence", Review of Accounting and Finance, Vol. 20 No. 2, pp. 167-193.
• Bakarich, K., Liu, J., & Weintrop, J. (2020), At what life-cycle stage does the auditors' going concern report add value?. Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 1-29.