Gaowen Kong

848 total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 604 citations indexed

About

Gaowen Kong is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Accounting and Strategy and Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Gaowen Kong has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 604 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 15 papers in Accounting and 9 papers in Strategy and Management. Recurrent topics in Gaowen Kong's work include Corporate Finance and Governance (13 papers), Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance (5 papers) and Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (4 papers). Gaowen Kong is often cited by papers focused on Corporate Finance and Governance (13 papers), Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance (5 papers) and Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (4 papers). Gaowen Kong collaborates with scholars based in China, Italy and Canada. Gaowen Kong's co-authors include Dongmin Kong, Shasha Liu, Shasha Liu, Shuai Wang, Ting Kong, Ni Qin, Maobin Wang, Ling Zhu, Dongmin Kong and Wei Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Business Ethics, Energy Economics and British Journal of Management.

In The Last Decade

Gaowen Kong

28 papers receiving 593 citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Enterprise digital transformation, breadth of ownership and stock price volatility

2023 93 citations Shasha Liu, Gaowen Kong et al. International Review of Financial Analysis profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gaowen Kong China	13	337	246	192	114	80	29	604
Min Maung Canada	11	225 0.7×	197 0.8×	213 1.1×	99 0.9×	57 0.7×	22	487
Ying Hao China	12	321 1.0×	248 1.0×	177 0.9×	73 0.6×	157 2.0×	31	587
Sultan Sikandar Mirza New Zealand	15	357 1.1×	256 1.0×	263 1.4×	128 1.1×	155 1.9×	50	747
Malcolm Wardlaw United States	8	331 1.0×	383 1.6×	177 0.9×	57 0.5×	225 2.8×	17	741
Yunhao Dai China	13	259 0.8×	411 1.7×	255 1.3×	100 0.9×	144 1.8×	26	712
Erwei Xiang Australia	14	342 1.0×	333 1.4×	445 2.3×	207 1.8×	119 1.5×	28	856
Haslindar Ibrahim Malaysia	15	209 0.6×	339 1.4×	125 0.7×	50 0.4×	84 1.1×	68	636
Ana Isabel Morais Portugal	13	168 0.5×	452 1.8×	344 1.8×	81 0.7×	55 0.7×	47	771
Sibo Liu Hong Kong	8	275 0.8×	336 1.4×	231 1.2×	70 0.6×	113 1.4×	25	620
Lubomı́r Lı́zal Czechia	13	330 1.0×	182 0.7×	290 1.5×	213 1.9×	71 0.9×	38	641

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gaowen Kong

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kong, Gaowen, et al.. (2025). Differences make a difference: Board diversity and enterprise digital transformation. Economic Analysis and Policy. 86. 545–558. 1 indexed citations

Kong, Gaowen, et al.. (2025). Hidden Iceberg: The Informativeness of Analyst Silence After Corporate Site Visits. British Journal of Management. 37(1). 3 indexed citations

Kong, Gaowen, et al.. (2023). Female executives, industrial robots, and stock price crash risk. Finance research letters. 57. 104253–104253. 16 indexed citations

Kong, Gaowen, et al.. (2023). Anti-corruption and within-firm pay gap: Evidence from China. Pacific-Basin Finance Journal. 79. 102041–102041. 17 indexed citations

Liu, Shasha, et al.. (2023). Enterprise digital transformation, breadth of ownership and stock price volatility. International Review of Financial Analysis. 89. 102713–102713. 93 indexed citations breakdown →

Liu, Shasha, et al.. (2023). Politics and Robots. International Review of Financial Analysis. 91. 103039–103039.

Liu, Shasha, et al.. (2022). Can the county to district reform in China restrain corporate earnings management? From the perspective of regional local protection. China Journal of Accounting Studies. 11(1). 134–158. 2 indexed citations

Kong, Gaowen, et al.. (2022). Digital Transformation and Within-Firm Pay Gap: Evidence from China. Emerging Markets Finance and Trade. 59(6). 1748–1766. 42 indexed citations

Kong, Gaowen, Dongmin Kong, & Lu Shi. (2022). Sleeplessness in COVID-19 pandemic: Lockdown and anxiety. Journal of Asian Economics. 80. 101460–101460. 9 indexed citations

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Cheng, Xu, Dongmin Kong, & Gaowen Kong. (2022). Foreign institutional investors and executive compensation incentives: Evidence from China. Journal of Multinational Financial Management. 66. 100758–100758. 5 indexed citations

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Kong, Gaowen, et al.. (2022). Can the Belt and Road Initiative Promote the Dezombification of Firms?. Emerging Markets Finance and Trade. 59(5). 1519–1537. 4 indexed citations

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Kong, Dongmin, Wenzhe Zhang, & Gaowen Kong. (2022). Does Government Decentralization Shape Firms’ Pollution Emissions? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in China. Emerging Markets Finance and Trade. 58(11). 3136–3151. 10 indexed citations

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Kong, Gaowen, et al.. (2022). Ethnic Diversity, Trust and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Moderating Effects of Marketization and Language. Journal of Business Ethics. 187(3). 449–471. 49 indexed citations

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Kong, Dongmin, Gaowen Kong, Shasha Liu, & Ling Zhu. (2022). Does competition cause government decentralization? The case of state-owned enterprises. Journal of Comparative Economics. 50(4). 1103–1122. 20 indexed citations

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Kong, Gaowen, et al.. (2022). Fostering firm productivity through green finance: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China. Economic Modelling. 115. 105979–105979. 44 indexed citations

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Kong, Gaowen. (2022). Causal effects of corporate taxes on private firms' earnings management: a regression discontinuity analysis. China Finance Review International. 14(2). 363–389. 12 indexed citations

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Liu, Shasha, Gaowen Kong, & Dongmin Kong. (2020). Effects of the COVID-19 on Air Quality: Human Mobility, Spillover Effects, and City Connections. Environmental and Resource Economics. 76(4). 635–653. 29 indexed citations

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Kong, Gaowen, et al.. (2020). Political promotion and pay gap: Evidence from SOEs in China. Economic Analysis and Policy. 69. 450–460. 16 indexed citations

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Kong, Gaowen, et al.. (2017). Does wage justice hamper creativity? Pay gap and firm innovation in China. China Economic Review. 44. 186–202. 67 indexed citations

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Kong, Gaowen & Dongmin Kong. (2014). Institutional Investors' Trading in Speculation: Evidence from China. South African Journal of Economics. 83(4). 617–631. 10 indexed citations

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