Jing Zhao (趙 婧)
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
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