Xiao Jun Zhang

Professor at Haas School of Business

Schools

  • Haas School of Business

Links

Biography

Haas School of Business

Education

  • PhD, Business Administration, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University * MPh, Business Administration, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University * MA, Economics, University of Maryland
  • BA, Finance, Renmin University, China

Positions Held

At Haas since 1998
2015 – present, Michael Chetkovich Professor of Accounting, Haas School of Business
2012 – present, member, China Academy for Financial Research (CAFR)
2002 – 2015, E.R. Niemela Associate Professor of Accounting, Haas School of Business
1998 – 2002, Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business

External Service and Assignments

  • Editorial Board, Review of Accounting Studies, The Accounting Review
  • Reviewer: Referee for Contemporary Accounting ResearchJournal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting and Public PolicyJournal of Accounting ResearchReview of Accounting StudiesThe Accounting Review

Current Research and Interests

  • Financial statement analysis
  • Financial accounting theory
  • International accounting

Selected Papers and Publications

  • Asymmetric decrease in liquidity trading before earnings announcements and the announcement return premium, with Shai Levi, Journal of Financial Economics. (Data)
  • Do Temporary Increases in Information Asymmetry Affect the Cost of Equity? with Shai Levi, Management Science(2014)
  • Preserving Amortized Costs within a Fair-Value-Accounting Framework: Reclassification of Gains and losses on Available-for-Sale Securities upon Realization, with Minyue Dong and Stepehn Ryan, Review of Accounting Studies (2014)
  • Book-to-Market Ratio and Skewness of Stock Return, The Accounting Review (2013)
  • Information Relevance, Reliability, and Disclosure, Review of Accounting Studies (2012)
  • Accounting Conservatism, Aggregation, and Information Quality, with Qintao Fan, Contemporary Accounting Research (2012)
  • Financial Reporting Complexity and Investor Under-reaction to 10-K Information, with Haifeng You, Review of Accounting Studies (2009)
  • Accounting Treatment of Inherent versus Incentive Uncertainties and the Capital Structure of the Firm, with Pierre Liang, Journal of Accounting Research (2006)
  • Accounting Conservatism, Quality of Earnings, and Stock Returns, with Stephen Penman, The Accounting Review (2002)

Teaching

  • Financial Accounting, Executive MBA 202, MBA 202, Evening & Weekend MBA 202, UGBA 202
  • Doctoral Research Seminar, PHDBA 229

Honors and Awards

  • Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching, EWMBA, 2014 – 2015
  • Schwabacher Fellowship, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, 2001
  • Junior Faculty Research Grant, UC Berkeley, 1999, 2000
  • Research Enabling Grant, UC Berkeley, 1998-2001
  • Grant, Jerome A. Chazen Institute of International Business, 1997
  • Paul Montrone Scholarship, Columbia Business School, 1996

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