Xiao Jun Zhang

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 Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Journal of Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, The 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