Prof. Ning ZHANG (張寧)

• PhD (Business administration), Duke University, 2013

He has supervised two PhD students and co-supervised one PhD student. He has also supervised four MSc (by research) students in finance and accounting. In addition, he also served as faculty advisor for six visiting professors and scholars.

• Empirical capital market research
• Corporate information disclosure
• Empirical asset pricing

1. The effects of anticipated future investments on firm values: Evidence from mergers and acquisitions, June 2016, Review of Accounting Studies, 21:2, 516-558
2. Earnings management during antidumping investigations in Europe: Sample-wide and cross-sectional evidence, with M. Welker and D. Godsell, May 2017, Journal of Accounting Research, 55:2, 407-457
3. The effect of auditing on promoting exports: Evidence from private firms in the emerging markets, April 2020, with C.S. Cheng, W. Sun and K. Ye, Management Science, 66:4, 1692-1716
4. The Impact of revealing auditor partner quality: Evidence from a long panel, December 2020, with C.S.A. Cheng, Y. Xu and K. Wang, Review of Accounting Studies, 25, 1475–1506
5. Gone with the wind: An externality of earnings pressure, forthcoming, July/August 2021, with Z. Liu, H. Shen, M. Welker and Y. Zhao, Journal of Accounting and Economics, 71:3/4
6. Measuring Accounting Asset Informativeness, with Q. Chen and K. Schipper, July 2022, The Accounting Review, 97 (4): 209–236
7. The Productivity Effect of Digital Financial Reporting, 2024, forthcoming with Z. Liu, Review of Accounting Studies

• Editor: China Journal of Accounting Research
• Associate Editor: Quarterly Journal of Economics and Management (Peking University)
• Editorial board: Contemporary Accounting Research (2020 – );
• Journal of International Accounting Research (2020 – );
• China Accounting and Finance Review (2019 – 2022; Ad hoc Editor, 2021)
• The International Journal of Accounting (2022 – )
• American Accounting Association and Canadian Academic Accounting Association