Weining Zhang

Dr. Zhang Weining is an Associate Professor of Accounting at CKGSB. He received his Ph.D. in Accounting from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2010. Before joining CKGSB in 2012, Dr. Zhang served as a faculty member at the Business School of National University of Singapore. His research interests include financial analyses, corporate disclosure, investor relationship management, corporate governance, internet platform business, and strategic financial management. He also works with Development Research Center of the State Council of China and Energy Fund of US on research projects.

Areas of Expertise:

Artificial Intelligence, Banking, Corporate Disclosure, Corporate Governance, Executive Compensation, Financial and Managerial Accounting, Internet

Education

• The University of Texas at Dallas
  PhD of Accounting, 2005 - 2010
• Western Kentucky University
  MBA, Finance 2003 - 2005

Academic Appointments:

• 2015-present Associate Professor of Accounting, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
• 2012-2015 Assistant Professor of Accounting, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
• 2010-2011 Assistant Professor of Accounting, National University of Singapore

Selected Publications:

• “Managerial Career Concerns and Corporate Tax Avoidance: Evidence from the Inevitable Disclosure Doctrine”, with Ningzhong Li and Terry Shevlin. Forthcoming at Contemporary Accounting Research. Available Code.
• “Restrictions on Managers’ Outside Employment Opportunities and Asymmetric Disclosure of Bad versus Good News”, with Ashiq Ali and Ningzhong Li. The Accounting Review, Vol. 94, 2019 (Lead article). Its brief version is published on Columbia Law School’s Blog on Corporations and the Capital Markets.
• “Management Team Incentive Dispersion and Firm Performance”, with Robert Bushman and Zhonglan Dai. The Accounting Review, Vol. 91, 2016.
• “An Evaluation of Chinese Firms’ Profitability: 2005-2013”, with Jing Liu and James Ohlson. Accounting Horizon, Vol 29, 2015.
• “CEO Tenure and Earnings Management”, with Ashiq Ali.Journal of Accounting and Economics, Vol. 59, 2015.
• “Discussion of Board Interlocks and the Diffusion of Disclosure Policy”. Review of Accounting Studies, Vol. 19, No. 3, September 2014.
• “Executive Pay-Performance Sensitivity and Litigation”, with Zhonglan Dai and Li Jin. Contemporary Accounting Research, Vol. 31, Issue 1, Spring 2014.
• “Do Institutional Investors Pay Attention to Customer Satisfaction and Why?”, with Xueming Luo, Ran Zhang and Jaakko Aspara. Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Vol. 42, Issue 2, March 2014.
• “Voluntary Disclosure and Information Asymmetry: Evidence from the 2005 Securities Offering Reform”, with Nemit O. Shroff, Amy X. Sun, and Hal D. White. Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 51 No. 5 December 2013.
• “Earnings Restatements and Differential Timeliness of Accounting Conservatism”, with Michael Ettredge and Ying Huang. Journal of Accounting and Economics, Vol. 54, Issue 2, 2012 (Lead article).