Xue Li

My name is Xue (pronounced "shu-eh"). I am an accounting Ph.D. candidate at the University of Washington, Foster School of Business. I will be on the 2024-2025 academic job market.

My research explores how emerging information intermediaries such as social media impact the way firms interact with stakeholders, using textual and video data. In my dissertation titled "Investor Political Ideology and Responses to Polarizing Boycotts", I examine the stock market response to polarizing social media boycotts, finding that this response is negative on average, and even more so when more online investors are ideologically aligned with boycotters. Across all of my research, I aim to understand the intersection of business and key societal issues such as political polarization, worker empowerment, and social media misinformation.

I will graduate with my Ph.D. in Accounting in 2025. Previously, I earned an M.S. in Applied & Computational Mathematics & Statistics and an M.S. in Accounting from the University of Notre Dame, as well as a B.A. in Accounting from Peking University. I am a licensed CPA in the State of Illinois with work experience in budgeting and financial planning.