Yun Zhang

Title: Assistant Professor of Accountancy
Department: Accountancy
Address: Funger Hall 601C
Phone: (202) 994-7532
Email: yunzhang@gwu.edu

Degrees:
PhD, Yale University, 2004
M.Phil, Yale University, 2002
MA, Yale University, 2002
BA, Renmin University of China, 1998

Published Papers

The Role of Biased Earnings Guidance in Creating a Healthy Tension between Managers and Analysts (with Brian Mittendorf, The Accounting Review, Vol. 80, 1193-1209, October 2005)

On the Relation between Conservatism in Accounting Standards and Incentives for Earnings Management (with Qi Chen and Thomas Hemmer, Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 45, 541-566, June 2007)

Endogenous Accounting Bias when Decision Making and Control Interact (with Qi Chen and Brian Mittendorf, Contemporary Accounting Research, Vol. 27, 1063-1091, Winter 2010)

On the Optimal Use of Loose Monitoring in Agencies (with Qi Chen and Thomas Hemmer, Review of Accounting Studies, Vol. 16, 328-354, 2011)

Working Papers

Clarity vs. Publicity in Disclosure of Public information (with Qi Chen and Tracy Lewis)

Information Asymmetry and Price Informativeness with Short-horizon Investors (with Qi Chen and Zeqiong Huang)