Huiyuan
Xie
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Huiyuan Xie is a doctoral researcher at the Turku School of Economics, University of Turku, Finland. Her research focuses on sustainable accounting, ESG disclosure, and corporate value, with a particular emphasis on the shipping and maritime industries.
She holds a Master of Science in International Accounting and Analysis from the University of Galway, Ireland (2024), where her thesis examined the extent to which industry characteristics influence the relationship between ESG performance and firm value.
Before her doctoral studies, Huiyuan gained professional experience in financial services and auditing. She worked in fund management at the China Merchants Group.
Her doctoral research centres on domain-specific ESG vocabulary and text-mining methods. Her methodological expertise includes text mining, content analysis, ESG disclosure analysis, and financial performance modelling.
Research
Huiyuan's doctoral research investigates the phenomenon whereby marine enterprises may overstate or misrepresent their environmental and social commitments in corporate disclosures. Her work aims to develop domain-specific ESG vocabularies and apply text-mining methods to systematically identify discrepancies between reported sustainability efforts and actual corporate performance.
Her research interests encompass ESG disclosure quality, sustainable accounting, corporate valuation, and the role of industry-specific factors in shaping ESG. Methodologically, she employs text mining, content analysis, ESG disclosure analysis, and financial performance modelling. She is currently building reproducible Blue ESG-text datasets and analytic workflows to support responsible investment research.