Minlei Ye
Associate Professor of Accounting, Department of Management, University of Toronto Mississauga
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Email: minlei.ye@utoronto.ca
Phone: 905-828-5443
Office: KN 261
Address: Kaneff Centre, 3359 Mississauga Rd.
Mississauga, ON, L5L 1C6
Website: Rotman School of Management
BIO
Minlei Ye is an Associate Professor with tenure at the University of Toronto. She has taught Advanced Auditing (MGT2225) in the MMPA Program in 2013, 2015, 2018 and 2019. She has also been teaching Managerial Accounting I in the commerce program at UTM since 2009.
Her research interests focus on the economics of auditing. She utilizes analytical and archival methods to study the impact of audit regulations and liabilities on audit quality, auditor independence, and audit market, as well as the economic factors that affect audit pricing. She has published papers in pinnacle journals including the Journal of Accounting Research, the Journal of Accounting & Economics, and Contemporary Accounting Research.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of British Columbia
MA, Renmin University of China
BA, Renmin University of China
CPA, CGA
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS - Papers
• The Impact of PCAOB Type of Regulations on Auditors under Different Legal Systems
M. Ye and D. A. Simunic Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance, 2022
• Auditor Experience and the Timeliness of Litigation Loss Contingency Disclosures
Feng Chen, Yu Hou, Gordon Richardson, Minlei Ye Contemporary Accounting Research, Issue 53(2), 2018, pp. 956-979
• Transaction Costs and Competition among Audit Firms in Local Markets
Chu, Ling, Dan A. Simunic, Minlei Ye, Ping Zhang Journal of Accounting and Economics, Issue 65(1), 2018
• The Joint Effects of Multiple Legal System Characteristics on Auditing Standards and Auditor Behavior
D.A. Simunic, Ping Zhang, Minlei Ye Contemporary Accounting Research, Issue 34(1), 2017, pp. 7-38
• Auditor Conservatism and Banks' Measurement Uncertainty during the Financial Crisis
Feng Chen, Kevin Lam, Wally Smieliauskas, Minlei Ye International Journal of Auditing, Issue 20(1), 2016, pp. 52-65
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS - Books & Chapters
• Auditing and Society: Research on Audit Practice and Regulations
Wally Smieliauskas, Minlei Ye, and Ping Zhang Routledge, 2021
HONORS & AWARDS
2018
IMI research award, Institute for Management & Innovation (IMI), University of Toronto Insight Grant, SSHRC
2015
Insight Grant, SSHRC
2013
The Michael-Lee Chin Family Institute for Corporate Citizenship research grant, University of Toronto
2012
Connaught New Researcher Award, University of Toronto
2011
Research Grant, the CMA / Canadian Academic Accounting Association
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS/ MEMBERSHIPS
2017 onwards
Editorial board, Contemporary Accounting Research