Xiaofei Pan

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
68 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Xiaofei Pan is a scholar working on Accounting, Strategy and Management and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaofei Pan has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Accounting, 23 papers in Strategy and Management and 15 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Xiaofei Pan's work include Corporate Finance and Governance (48 papers), Political Influence and Corporate Strategies (21 papers) and Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance (18 papers). Xiaofei Pan is often cited by papers focused on Corporate Finance and Governance (48 papers), Political Influence and Corporate Strategies (21 papers) and Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance (18 papers). Xiaofei Pan collaborates with scholars based in Australia, China and United States. Xiaofei Pan's co-authors include Gary Gang Tian, Jerry Cao, Meijun Qian, Michael L. Lemmon, Qigui Liu, Shiguang Ma, Sandy Suardi, Fang Hu, Qing Zhou and Jianling Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Management Science and Research Policy.

In The Last Decade

Xiaofei Pan

60 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

Political connections and corporate investments: Evidence from the recent anti-corruption campaign in China

2017 245 citations Xiaofei Pan, Gary Gang Tian Journal of Banking & Finance profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xiaofei Pan Australia	18	960	560	351	245	189	68	1.4k
Jerry Cao China	19	1.1k 1.2×	514 0.9×	390 1.1×	278 1.1×	128 0.7×	64	1.4k
Guanmin Liao China	11	953 1.0×	449 0.8×	512 1.5×	183 0.7×	141 0.7×	17	1.3k
Vikramaditya S. Khanna United States	15	1.1k 1.2×	517 0.9×	255 0.7×	272 1.1×	162 0.9×	64	1.5k
Larry Fauver United States	17	1.3k 1.3×	526 0.9×	492 1.4×	486 2.0×	210 1.1×	32	1.7k
Pattanaporn Chatjuthamard United States	21	1.0k 1.0×	586 1.0×	336 1.0×	208 0.8×	65 0.3×	122	1.4k
I. J. Alexander Dyck Canada	14	951 1.0×	344 0.6×	338 1.0×	341 1.4×	176 0.9×	33	1.2k
Natalya Volchkova Russia	7	679 0.7×	379 0.7×	248 0.7×	352 1.4×	201 1.1×	17	1.0k
Leon Zolotoy Australia	17	1.0k 1.0×	403 0.7×	342 1.0×	578 2.4×	88 0.5×	49	1.4k
Ashrafee T Hossain Canada	16	498 0.5×	381 0.7×	301 0.9×	207 0.8×	97 0.5×	75	881
Xiaorong Li China	12	1.1k 1.1×	333 0.6×	336 1.0×	534 2.2×	128 0.7×	33	1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiaofei Pan

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Cheng, Feiyang, Haoyu Gao, Xiaofei Pan, Meijun Qian, & Qing Zhou. (2025). China's debt market: Evolution, regulation, and global integration. Pacific-Basin Finance Journal. 91. 102751–102751.

Ma, Shiguang, et al.. (2025). The influence of stock market liberalization on labor investment decisions: Evidence from China. Pacific-Basin Finance Journal. 93. 102859–102859.

Freeman, Richard B., et al.. (2025). Team incentives and lower ability workers: A real-effort experiment. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 233. 106986–106986.

Pan, Xiaofei, et al.. (2024). Green M&A dilemma: Unravelling the impact on high polluting enterprises’ performance. Finance research letters. 70. 106292–106292. 1 indexed citations

Pan, Xiaofei, et al.. (2024). Effect of innovation disclosure in annual reports on R&D subsidies in China. Journal of Accounting Literature. 1 indexed citations

Pan, Xiaofei, et al.. (2024). Political Turnover and Audit Opinion: Evidence from China. Auditing A Journal of Practice & Theory. 43(4). 87–113. 2 indexed citations

Pan, Xiaofei, et al.. (2024). Writing performance and discourse organization in L2 Chinese: A longitudinal case study. Journal of Second Language Writing. 66. 101150–101150.

Li, Zhaohua & Xiaofei Pan. (2023). Relationship investment and local corruption environment: Evidence from China. Accounting and Finance. 63(4). 4597–4628. 2 indexed citations

Pan, Xiaofei, et al.. (2023). Part of speech tagging of grammatical features related to L2 Chinese development: A case analysis of Stanza in the L2 writing context. Frontiers in Psychology. 14. 1139703–1139703. 1 indexed citations

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Pan, Xiaofei & Meijun Qian. (2023). Firm Financing through Insider Stock Pledges. SSRN Electronic Journal.

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Freeman, Richard B., et al.. (2022). Team Incentives and Lower Ability Workers: An Experimental Study on Real-Effort Tasks. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Pan, Xiaofei & Buhui Qiu. (2022). The impact of flooding on firm performance and economic growth. PLoS ONE. 17(7). e0271309–e0271309. 7 indexed citations

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Pan, Xiaofei, et al.. (2020). Main Content and Implementation Path of College Sports Informatization Construction. Journal of Physics Conference Series. 1575(1). 12184–12184. 1 indexed citations

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Pan, Xiaofei & Meijun Qian. (2019). Insider Stock Pledges and Shareholder Wealth. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations

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Pan, Xiaofei. (2017). Accounting conservatism, bank lending and firm investment: Evidence from a quasi-experiment of China's stimulus package. Pacific-Basin Finance Journal. 44. 64–79. 7 indexed citations

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Pan, Xiaofei & Gary Gang Tian. (2017). Political connections and corporate investments: Evidence from the recent anti-corruption campaign in China. Journal of Banking & Finance. 119. 105108–105108. 245 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pan, Xiaofei, et al.. (2017). Political Connections, Audit Opinions, and Auditor Choice: Evidence from the Ouster of Government Officers. Auditing A Journal of Practice & Theory. 36(3). 91–114. 29 indexed citations

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Pan, Xiaofei, et al.. (2015). Political Connections, Audit Opinions and Auditor Choice: Evidence from Corruption Cases. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations

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Cao, Jerry, Xiaofei Pan, & Gary Gang Tian. (2011). Disproportional Ownership Structure and Pay-Performance Relationship in China. Institutional Knowledge (InK) - Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University (Singapore Management University). 96 indexed citations

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Pan, Xiaofei. (2010). SHRIMP zircon U-Pb ages of the middle Neopaleozoic unmetamorphosed magmatic rocks in the southwestern slope of the Da Hinggan Mountains,Inner Mongolia. Acta Petrologica Et Mineralogica. 23 indexed citations

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