Woo-Jong Lee

Seoul National University

Professor

Gwanak-ro 1, Gwanak-gu

Seoul, 08826

Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

  • Seoul National University

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1.

Financial Reporting Quality and Labor Investment Efficiency

Contemporary Accounting Research 31(4), pp. 1047-1076.
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 10 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2014
Boochun Jung, Woo-Jong Lee and David P. Weber
University of Hawaii at Manoa - School of Accountancy, Seoul National University and University of Connecticut - Department of Accounting
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Accounting quality, Investment efficiency, Labor investment, Hiring

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Political Uncertainty and Cost Stickiness: Evidence from National Elections around the World

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Political Uncertainty and Cost Stickiness: Evidence from National Elections around the World

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 20 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 16 Mar 2016
Woo-Jong Lee, Jeffrey Pittman and Walid Saffar
Seoul National University, Memorial University and Hong Kong Polytechnic University - School of Accounting and Finance
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Political Uncertainty, Cost Stickiness

Political Uncertainty and Cost Stickiness: Evidence from National Elections around the World

Contemporary Accounting Research, Forthcoming
Posted: 12 Jul 2019
Woo-Jong Lee, Jeffrey Pittman and Walid Saffar
Seoul National University, Memorial University and Hong Kong Polytechnic University - School of Accounting and Finance

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Political Uncertainty, Cost Stickiness, national elections, institutional infrastructure

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Organized Labor and Inventory Stockpiling

The Accounting Review, Forthcoming (doi.org/10.2308/TAR-2018-0117)
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 25 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 25 Mar 2021
Sophia Hamm, Boochun Jung, Woo-Jong Lee and Daniel Yang
Tulane University - A.B. Freeman School of Business, University of Hawaii at Manoa - School of Accountancy, Seoul National University and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)
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labor union, inventory, investment efficiency, strike

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Refinancing Risk and Employment Growth: The Role of Financial Reporting Quality

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 04 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 07 Oct 2022
Boochun Jung, Woo-Jong Lee, David P. Weber and Daniel Yang
University of Hawaii at Manoa - School of Accountancy, Seoul National University, University of Connecticut - Department of Accounting and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)
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financial reporting quality; employment growth; refinancing risk; debt maturity

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Corporate Layoffs and Accounting Conservatism

KAIST College of Business Working Paper Series No. 2016-001
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 25 Jan 2016 Last Revised: 25 Jul 2017
Boochun Jung, Byungki Kim, Woo-Jong Lee and Choong-Yuel Yoo
University of Hawaii at Manoa - School of Accountancy, University of Queensland - Business School, Seoul National University and KAIST College of Business
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Accounting Conservatism, Layoff, Layoff Efficiency, Restructuring, Downsizing, Form 8-K

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Do Managers Withhold Good News from Labor Unions?

Management Science, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 16 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 08 Jun 2016
Richard Chung, Bryan Byung-Hee Lee, Woo-Jong Lee and Byungcherl Charlie Sohn
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Korea University, Sejong, Seoul National University and University of Macau - Department of Accounting and Information Management
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Labor Union, Disclosure, Timing Disclosure

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Laborism, Investment Efficiency in Labor, and Operating Performance Around the World

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 01 Jul 2016
Boochun Jung, Tony Kang, Woo-Jong Lee and Gaoguang (Stephen) Zhou
University of Hawaii at Manoa - School of Accountancy, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Seoul National University and Hong Kong Baptist University
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Managerial Entrenchment and the Value of Dividends

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 2011, 36 (2), pp. 297-322.
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 21 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2014
Woo-Jong Lee
Seoul National University
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Managerial entrenchment, Takeover defenses, Agency costs, Dividend payout, Firm value

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Do Labor Unions Always Lead to Underinvestment?

Journal of Management Accounting Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 13 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 24 May 2016
Hyungjin Cho, Bryan Byung-Hee Lee, Woo-Jong Lee and Byungcherl Charlie Sohn
Inha University - College of Business Administration, Korea University, Sejong, Seoul National University and University of Macau - Department of Accounting and Information Management
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Labor union, investment efficiency, overinvestment, underinvestment, chaebol

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Do Takeover Defenses Impair Equity Investors’ Perception of ‘Higher Quality’ Earnings?

Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Vol. 27, No. 3, 2012
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 23 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 05 Sep 2014
Lee-Seok Hwang and Woo-Jong Lee
Seoul National University - College of Business Administration and Seoul National University
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takeover defenses, earnings informativeness, earnings quality, market perception

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Extrapolation Bias in Explaining the Asset Growth Anomaly: Evidence from Analysts’ Multi-Period Earnings Forecasts

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 16 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 16 Oct 2015
Hyungjin Cho, Sunhwa Choi, Lee-Seok Hwang and Woo-Jong Lee
Inha University - College of Business Administration, Seoul National University - Business School, Seoul National University - College of Business Administration and Seoul National University
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analyst forecast, growth anomaly, investment anomaly, extrapolation bias

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Regional Crime Rates and Corporate Misreporting

Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 13 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2019
Hyungjin Cho, Sera Choi, Woo-Jong Lee and Seunghee Yang
Inha University - College of Business Administration, Seoul National University - College of Business Administration, Seoul National University and Seoul National University
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crime rates, social capital, financial reporting quality, tax avoidance

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Labor Unions and Income Smoothing

Contemporary Accounting Research, Vol. 35, No. 3, 2018
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 25 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2018
Sophia Hamm, Boochun Jung and Woo-Jong Lee
Tulane University - A.B. Freeman School of Business, University of Hawaii at Manoa - School of Accountancy and Seoul National University
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Labor Unions; Earnings Smoothing; Accruals Management; R&D Expenditures Management

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Audit Pricing of Shared Leadership

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 21 Aug 2016
Younsik Choi, Jiwon Hyeon, Taejin Jung and Woo-Jong Lee
Seoul National University - College of Business Administration, Seoul National University - Business School, Hanyang University - School of Business and Seoul National University
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Audit Fees, Audit Effort, Audit Hours, Co-CEOs, Shared Leadership

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The Impact of Dividend Covenants on Investment and Operating Performance

Journal of Business, Finance, and Accounting, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 21 Nov 2015
Boochun Jung, Woo-Jong Lee and Yanhua Sunny Yang
University of Hawaii at Manoa - School of Accountancy, Seoul National University and University of Connecticut - School of Business
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Dividend covenants, Investment, Operating performance

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Asymmetric Inventory Management and the Direction of Sales Changes

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Asymmetric Inventory Management and the Direction of Sales Changes

Contemporary Accounting Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 16 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 28 Jul 2020
Iny Hwang, Taejin Jung, Woo-Jong Lee and Daniel Yang
Seoul National University - College of Business Administration, Hanyang University - School of Business, Seoul National University and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)
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inventory investment; sales decline; demand uncertainty; fundamental analysis; sales forecast; production decision

Asymmetric Inventory Management and the Direction of Sales Changes

Contemporary Accounting Research, Forthcoming
Posted: 11 Dec 2020
Iny Hwang, Taejin Jung, Woo-Jong Lee and Daniel Yang
Seoul National University - College of Business Administration, Hanyang University - School of Business, Seoul National University and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)

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inventory investment, sales decline, demand uncertainty, fundamental analysis, sales forecast, production decision

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An Empirical Analysis of Gender Differences in Asymmetric Labor Adjustment: Evidence from Korea

Accepted for publication in Review of Accounting Studies
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 12 Aug 2024
Meeok Cho, Jiwon Hyeon, Woo-Jong Lee and Hee-Yeon Sunwoo
Kyung Hee University, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul National University and Sejong University
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Labor adjustment, gender difference, glass ceiling

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Debt Financing and Accounting Conservatism in Private Firms

Contemporary Accounting Research, Vol. 31, No. 4, 2014, pp. 1220-1259
Posted: 07 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 02 Dec 2014
In-Mu Haw, Jay Junghun Lee and Woo-Jong Lee
Texas Christian University - M.J. Neeley School of Business, University of Massachusetts Boston and Seoul National University

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private firms, debt financing, public bonds, accounting conservatism