Trung Nguyen is an assistant professor of business administration in the Accounting & Management Unit. She teaches the Financial Reporting and Control course in the MBA required curriculum.
Professor Nguyen’s research interests include financial misconduct, government regulation and enforcement, corporate governance, and behavioral biases in financial markets. More specifically, she studies the relationship between financial regulatory and enforcement agencies’ behavior and financial fraud. In addition, her research explores the effects of financial fraud and accounting violations disclosure on investors’ corporate governance efforts and investment choices. She also studies the incentives for and determinants of private information disclosure by managers. Professor Nguyen’s work has been featured in Bloomberg.
Professor Nguyen earned a Ph.D. in business administration from Stanford University, Graduate School of Business and a B.A. in economics from Harvard University.
Professor Nguyen’s primary research interest is empirical financial accounting. She studies corporate fraud, financial misconduct, government regulation and enforcement, corporate finance, and the disclosure of fraud and private information. She examines the relationship between financial regulation and enforcement agencies’ behavior and financial fraud. In one of her research papers, Professor Nguyen studied the deterrent effect of criminal enforcement on white-collar criminal activities. She looked into whether the FBI’s shift in investigative resources and priorities to counter-terrorism investigations post-9/11 led to a reduction in the enforcement of laws targeting white-collar crime, and if white collar crime increased as a result of less oversight. Professor Nguyen has also studied the effects of a firm’s geographic distance from the SEC on its enforcement activities for insider trading violations. She is currently researching firms’ decisions to voluntarily disclose informal and ongoing investigations of financial misconduct and accounting fraud. She is researching the determinants and effect of government enforcement activities on crime, especially corporate malfeasance. Professor Nguyen also uses data to provide insights into African Americans’ savings and investment behavior and their attitudes towards the banking system.
