ZHANG Weining

Phone: +86-10-8518 8858 ext. 3330
E-mail: wnzhang@ckgsb.edu.cn

Associate Professor of Accounting, Executive Academic Director for Executive Education Programs and Executive Academic Director for MBA Program, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB)

PhD of Accounting, University of Texas at Dallas

Areas of Expertise: Artificial Intelligence, Banking, Corporate Disclosure, Corporate Governance, Executive Compensation, Financial and Managerial Accounting, Internet

Biography

Dr. Zhang Weining is an Associate Professor of Accounting at CKGSB. He received his Ph.D. in Accounting from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2010. Before joining CKGSB in 2012, Dr. Zhang served as a faculty member at the Business School of National University of Singapore. His research interests include financial analyses, corporate disclosure, investor relationship management, corporate governance, internet platform business, and strategic financial management. He also works with Development Research Center of the State Council of China and Energy Fund of US on research projects.

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• 2021 AAA Annual Meeting Best Paper Award for Government and Non-for-Profit Section
• 2017 IBM Global Faculty Award
• Outstanding paper award of 12th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Financial Market
  2017
• The 2015 Outstanding Researcher Award (CKGSB)
• The Best Paper Award of The Chinese Finance Association (TCFA) 2014
• Consortium Fellow at AAA/Deloitte/J. Michael Cook Doctoral Consortium 2008
• Consortium Fellow at AAA FARS Doctoral Consortium 2008

• Jiuxian.com: Multidimensional Connections, 2015 
• Tencent IEG: IP strategy enabled by the internet power, 2016
• Wepiao.com: From Online Ticketing to Pan-Entertainment, 2016
• Everstring: Big Data Accurately Screens the Next Customer, 2016
• JStyle: From Paper Media to E-Commerce Content Firm, 2016
• Toutiao: “All you care about is the headline!”, 2017
• IBM’s Strategic Transformation: The Age of “Cognitive Business”,  2017

Selected Publications:

• “Does Political Uncertainty Obfuscate Narrative Disclosure?”, with Mohamed Mekhaimer and Marwa Soliman. Forthcoming at The Accounting Review.
• “Proprietary Information Cost of Contracting with the Government”, with Jiapeng He, Kevin Li, and Ningzhong Li. Forthcoming at The Accounting Review.
  2021 AAA Annual Meeting Best Paper Award for Government and Non-for-Profit Section
• “Managerial Career Concerns and Corporate Tax Avoidance: Evidence from the Inevitable Disclosure Doctrine”, with Ningzhong Li and Terry Shevlin. Contemporary Accounting Research, Vol. 39, No. 1, Spring 2022. Data Availability Statement.
• “Restrictions on Managers’ Outside Employment Opportunities and Asymmetric Disclosure of Bad versus Good News”, with Ashiq Ali and Ningzhong Li. The Accounting Review, Vol. 94, 2019 (Lead article).
  Its brief version is published on Columbia Law School’s Blog on Corporations and the Capital Markets.
• “Management Team Incentive Dispersion and Firm Performance”, with Robert Bushman and Zhonglan Dai. The Accounting Review, Vol. 91, 2016.
• “Conservative Reporting and Securities Class Action Lawsuits”, with Michael Ettredge and Ying Huang. Accounting Horizon, Vol. 30, 2016.
• “An Evaluation of Chinese Firms’ Profitability: 2005-2013”, with Jing Liu and James Ohlson. Accounting Horizon, Vol 29, 2015.
• “CEO Tenure and Earnings Management”, with Ashiq Ali. Journal of Accounting and Economics, Vol. 59, 2015.
• “Discussion of Board Interlocks and the Diffusion of Disclosure Policy”. Review of Accounting Studies, Vol. 19, No. 3, September 2014.
• “Executive Pay-Performance Sensitivity and Litigation”, with Zhonglan Dai and Li Jin. Contemporary Accounting Research, Vol. 31, Issue 1, Spring 2014.
• “Do Institutional Investors Pay Attention to Customer Satisfaction and Why?”, with Xueming Luo, Ran Zhang and Jaakko Aspara. Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Vol. 42, Issue 2, March 2014.
• “Voluntary Disclosure and Information Asymmetry: Evidence from the 2005 Securities Offering Reform”, with Nemit O. Shroff, Amy X. Sun, and Hal D. White. Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 51, Issue 5, pages 1299-1345, December 2013.
• “Restatement Disclosures and Management Earnings Forecasts”, with Michael Ettredge and Ying Huang. Accounting Horizon, Vol. 27, Issue 2, June 2013.
• “Asymmetric Cash Flow Sensitivity of Cash Holdings”, with Dichu Bao and Kam C. Chan. Journal of Corporate Finance, Vol. 18, 2012.
• “Earnings Restatements and Differential Timeliness of Accounting Conservatism”, with Michael Ettredge and Ying Huang. Journal of Accounting and Economics, Vol. 54, Issue 2, 2012 (Lead article in the Issue).
• “Bank Discrimination, Holding Bank Ownership, and Economic Consequences: Evidence from China”, with Zhengfei Lu and Jigao Zhu. Journal of Banking and Finance, Vol. 36, No.2, 2012.
• “Organizational Capital”, with Baruch Lev and Suresh Radhakrishnan. Abacus: A Journal of Accounting, Finance and Business Studies, Vol. 45, No. 3, 2009.

Selected Working Papers

• “Dynamic Adjustment of CEO Incentives and Firm Performance”, with Robert Bushman and Zhonglan Dai.
• “Does Political Uncertainty Obfuscate Narrative Disclosure?”, with Mohamed Mekhaimer and Marwa Soliman.
• “Adoption of Artificial Intelligence and Earnings Management”, with Zhao Jin, Ke Na, and Feida Zhang.
• “The Bright Side of Career Concern: CEO Tenure and Narrative Disclosure Complexity”, with Mohamed Mekhaimer and Marwa Soliman.