2026 Charles M.C. Lee: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	59	844	759	528	464	136	37590

Overview

Charles M.C. Lee is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Business, Management and Accounting as well as Economics, Econometrics and Finance.

The scientist's scholarly work covers several subfields including:

Accounting
Finance
Economics and Econometrics
Management Information Systems
Management Science and Operations Research

Key research topics addressed in their publications include:

Financial Markets and Investment Strategies
Corporate Finance and Governance
Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance
Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis
Private Equity and Venture Capital
Accounting Education and Careers
Accounting and Organizational Management

Their body of work has appeared most frequently in:

SSRN Electronic Journal
The Accounting Review
Review of Financial Studies
Journal of Financial Economics
Foundations and Trends® in Entrepreneurship

Selected recent papers include:

Production complementarity and information transmission across industries, 2024, Journal of Financial Economics
Active Funds and Bundled News, 2021, The Accounting Review
Evaluating Firm-Level Expected-Return Proxies: Implications for Estimating Treatment Effects, 2020, Review of Financial Studies
Tick Size Tolls: Can a Trading Slowdown Improve Earnings News Discovery?, 2020, The Accounting Review
Shall We Talk? The Role of Interactive Investor Platforms in Corporate Communication, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent collaborators found in their research include:

Yuanyu Qu
Qinlin Zhong
Lin William Cong
Tao Shen
Shana Clor-Proell

Best Publications

Inferring Trade Direction from Intraday Data

Charles M. C. Lee;Mark J. Ready

4244
Citations
Investor Sentiment and the Closed-End Fund Puzzle

Charles Lee;Andrei Shleifer;Richard H. Thaler

3352
Citations
Investor Sentiment and the Closed-End Fund Puzzle

Charles M. C. Lee;Andrei Shleifer;Richard H. Thaler

2886
Citations
Toward an Implied Cost of Capital

William R. Gebhardt;Charles M. C. Lee;Bhaskaran Swaminathan

2851
Citations
Price Momentum and Trading Volume

Charles M. C. Lee;Bhaskaran Swaminathan

2343
Citations
Retail Investor Sentiment and Return Comovements

Alok Kumar;Charles M.C. Lee

1853
Citations
Accounting valuation, market expectation, and cross-sectional stock returns

Richard Frankel;Charles M.C. Lee

1802
Citations
Tunneling through intercorporate loans: The China experience☆

Guohua Jiang;Charles M.C. Lee;Heng Yue

1699
Citations
Spreads, Depths, and the Impact of Earnings Information: An Intraday Analysis

Charles M. C. Lee;Belinda Mucklow;Mark J. Ready

1463
Citations
Analyzing the Analysts: When Do Recommendations Add Value?

Narasimhan Jegadeesh;Joonghyuk Kim;Susan D. Krische;Charles M. C. Lee

1361
Citations
Analyst Forecast Revisions and Market Price Discovery

Cristi A. Gleason;Charles M. C. Lee

1166
Citations
Inferring Trade Direction from Intraday Data

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994
Citations
What is the Intrinsic Value of the Dow

Charles M. C. Lee;James Myers;Bhaskaran Swaminathan

902
Citations
What's My Line? A Comparison of Industry Classification Schemes for Capital Market Research

Sanjeev Bhojraj;Charles M. C. Lee;Derek K. Oler

804
Citations
Earnings news and small traders : An intraday analysis

Charles M.C Lee

694
Citations
Information Uncertainty and Expected Returns

Guohua Jiang;Charles M. C. Lee;Yi Zhang

658
Citations
Inferring investor behavior: Evidence from TORQ data

Charles M.C. Lee;Balkrishna Radhakrishna

626
Citations
Who Is My Peer? A Valuation‐Based Approach to the Selection of Comparable Firms

Sanjeev Bhojraj;Charles M. C. Lee

586
Citations
Investor Sentiment and the Closed-End Fund Puzzle

Charles Lee;Andrei Shleifer;Andrei Shleifer;Richard H. Thaler;Richard H. Thaler

458
Citations
Closed-end Country Funds and U.S. Market Sentiment

James N . Bodurtha.;Dong Soon Kim;Charles M . C . Lee

449
Citations
Market Integration and Price Execution for NYSE-Listed Securities

Charles M. C. Lee

438
Citations
Volume, Volatility, and New York Stock Exchange Trading Halts

Charles M. C. Lee;Mark J. Ready;Paul J. Seguin

403
Citations
Information Uncertainty and Expected Returns

Guohua Jiang;Charles M.C. Lee;Grace Yi Zhang

133
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Messod Daniel Beneish Indiana University

Chang Yong Lee Cornell University

Richard H. Thaler University of Chicago

Andrei Shleifer Harvard University

Ki Won Lee Seoul National University

Zigang Dong University of Minnesota

Narasimhan Jegadeesh Emory University

Alok Kumar University of Miami

Yves Desjardins Université Laval

Yoongho Lim Konkuk University

External Links

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