Christina Zhu

Professor Zhu’s primary research interest is empirical financial accounting. The underlying theme of her work is that costly information acquisition has economic consequences. Her research studies different elements of the feedback loop between investors’ information acquisition costs, stock price efficiency, and managers’ incentives and actions.

Professor Zhu received her Ph.D. in Business Administration (Accounting) from Stanford University and a B.A. in Economics and B.S. in Mathematics from Stanford University. Prior to pursuing her Ph.D. degree, she was an investment banking analyst at Perella Weinberg Partners.

Interests:

Information costs and capital markets, technology and alternative data, price efficiency and corporate governance, executive compensation

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Stanford University Graduate School of Business (2013 — 2019)
• B.A., B.S. Stanford University (2007 — 2011)

Refereed Publications

• Lee, Charles MC, and Christina Zhu. “Active Funds and Bundled News”, The Accounting Review, 97(1), 315-339, 2022.
• deHaan, Ed, Yang Song, Chloe Xie, and Christina Zhu. “Obfuscation in Mutual Funds”, Journal of Accounting and Economics, 72(2-3), 2021.
• Zhu, Christina. “Big Data as a Governance Mechanism”, Review of Financial Studies, 32(5), 2021-2061, Special Issue: To FinTech and Beyond, 2019.
• Blankespoor, Elizabeth, Ed deHaan, John Wertz, and Christina Zhu. “Why do Individual Investors Disregard Accounting Information? The Roles of Information Awareness and Acquisition Costs”, Journal of Accounting Research, 57(1), 53-84, 2019.
• Blankespoor, Elizabeth, Ed deHaan, and Christina Zhu. “Capital Market Effects of Media Synthesis and Dissemination: Evidence from Robo-Journalism”, Review of Accounting Studies, 23(1), 1-36, 2018.