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Jing Zhao ( )

Associate Professor of Finance

The School of Business

Portland State University

PO Box 751

Portland, OR 97207

 

Email: jingzhao@pdx.edu

Webpage: web.pdx.edu/~jizhao/

 

Updated: January 2020

 

 

CV (pdf)

SSRN author page

Google Scholar citations

 

 

 

Refereed Publications

 

Do Pro-Diversity Policies Improve Corporate Innovation?, with Roger Mayer and Richard Warr, September 2018, Financial Management 47, 617-650.

Featured on MSNBC, NBC News, WUNC public radio, National Public Radio (NPR), Fast Company, Psychology Today, etc.

 

 

Director Networks and Credit Ratings, with Bradley Benson, Subramanian Iyer, and Kristopher Kemper, April 2018, The Financial Review 53, 301-336.

Featured on the Columbia Law School Blog on Corporations and the Capital Markets

Winner of Financial Review Readers’ Choice Best Paper Award 2019

 

 

Does Local Religiosity Affect Organizational Risk-Taking? Evidence from the Hedge Fund Industry, with Lei Gao and Ying Wang, December 2017, Journal of Corporate Finance 47, 1-22 [Lead Article].

Winner of an Outstanding Paper Award, 2016 Eastern Finance Association Annual Meeting

 

 

Industry Contagion Effects of Internal Control Material Weakness Disclosures, with Brian Bolton, Qin Lian, and Kathy Rupley, September 2016, Advances in Accounting 34, 27-40.

 

 

Credibility and Multiple SEOs: What Happens When Firms Return to the Capital Market?, with Mark Walker and Keven Yost, September 2016, Financial Management 45 (3), 675-703.

 

 

School Choice Programs: The Impacts on Housing Values, with Bartley Danielsen and Josh Fairbanks, 2015, Journal of Real Estate Literature 23 (2), 207-232.

SSRN Top Ten Download List (12/17/2014-2/1/2015)

 

 

Hedge Funds and Corporate Innovation, with Ying Wang, February 2015, Financial Management 44 (2), 353-385.

 

 

It Makes a Village: Residential Relocation after Charter School Admission, with Bartley R. Danielsen and David M. Harrison, November 2014, Real Estate Economics 42 (4), 1008-1041.

 

 

Entrenchment or Incentive? CEO Employment Contracts and Acquisition Decisions, September 2013, Journal of Corporate Finance 22, 124-152.

Best Paper Award in Corporate Finance (semi-finalist), 2012 Financial Management Association Annual Meeting

SSRN Top Ten Download List (4/25/13-6/1/13)

Full-Page Coverage: Strategy+Business Magazine featured story: CEOs with Contracts Pull off Better M&A Deal, 8/5/2013

 

 

Can Growth Options Explain the Trend in Idiosyncratic Risk?, with Charles Cao and Tim Simin, December 2008, Review of Financial Studies 21 (6), 2599-2633.

Best Paper Award, 3rd NTU International Conference on Economics, Finance, and Accounting (IEFA), 2005