Min Cao

Faculty

Assistant Professor

Email min.cao@unco.edu
Phone 970-351-3629
Address 800 17th Street, Campus Box 128, Greeley, CO 80639
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Education

  • Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
    Ph.D. in Accounting (Minor: Finance)

 

  • Antai College of Economics & Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
    M.S. in Management Science and Engineering
    B.S. in Finance (Minor: Computer Science)

 

Professional Experience & Affiliations

  • Monfort College of Business, University of Northern Colorado
    Assistant Professor of Accounting, September 2022 – present
  • Lucille and Jay Chazanoff School of Business, City University of New York – College of Staten Island
    Assistant Professor of Accounting, September 2016 – 2022
  • Rutgers Business School – Newark and New Brunswick
    Assistant Professor of Accounting, September 2011 – July 2016

Research Expertise & Interests

  • Financial Accounting
  • Managerial Accounting
  • Accounting Information System
  • Data Analytics
  • Corporate Finance
  • Personal Finance
  • Financial Statement
  • Analysis
  • Auditing
  • Cost Accounting
  • International Accounting.

Publications

  • Understanding Stock Price Behavior Around External Financing, with Spencer Martin and Yaqiong Yao, Journal of Corporate Finance, 2025.
  • Private Bank Lending to Small Business in China: An Analysis of Default Rates, with Jingyi Du and Bharat Sarath, Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies, 2025.
  • The Disciplinary Effect of Taxpayer Balloting on Public Spending: Some Empirical Evidence, with Yaw Mensah, Michael Schoderbek, and Savita Sahay, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 2022.
  • Patterns of Insider Trading: It is not all Black and White, with Bharat Sarath and Mehrzad Azmi, Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance, 2020.
  • Inventory Turns and Finite-Horizon Little’s Laws, with Weiwei Chen, Rudolf Leuschner, Benjamin Melamed, and Dale Rogers, Annals of Operations Research, 2016.
  • Big Data Analytics in Financial Statement Audits, with Roman Chychyla and Trevor Stewart, Accounting Horizons, 2015.
  • Non-monotonic Characteristic and Sub-optimality of Monetary Incentives: an Experimental Study, with Christopher Hsee and Chongfeng Wu, Shanghai Journal of Economics, 2002.