Prof. Amy Yunzhi ZANG
Associate Professor amy.zang@ust.hk

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Academic qualifications
PhD, Accounting, 2006, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
BS, Accounting, 2001, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

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ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCEAssociate Professor of Accounting, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), July 2015 - present
Assistant Professor of Accounting, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), July 2009 - June 2015
Assistant Professor of Accounting, University of Rochester, July 2006 - June 2009

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PUBLICATIONS "An Unintended Benefit of Risk Factor Mandate of 2005."Review of Accounting Studies, 14 April 2021(With Allen Huang and Jianghua Shen).
Best Paper Award (First Place) at the 2018 MIT Asia Conference in Accounting
"Analyst Information Discovery and interpretation Roles: A Topic Modeling Approach"Management Science,June 2018,Vol. 64, Iss. 6, pp. 2833-2855. (with Allen Huang, Reuven Lehavy and Rong Zheng).
"Evidence on the Information Content of Text in Analyst Reports"TheAccounting Review,November 2014, 89 (6) 2151-2180.(with Allen Huang and Rong Zheng).
"Evidence on the Trade-Off between Real Activities Manipulation and Accrual-Based Earnings Management."The Accounting Review, March 2012, 87 (2) 675-703.
"What Determine Financial Analysts' Career Outcomes During Mergers?"Journal of Accounting and Economics, March 2009, 59-86. (with Joanna Shuang Wu)
"CEO Reputation and Earnings Quality" Contemporary Accounting Research, Volume 25, Issue 1, Spring 2008. (with Jennifer Francis, Allen Huang and Shiva Rajgopal)

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WORKING PAPERS "Cross-Industry Information Sharing among Colleagues and Analyst Research." With Allen Huang and An-Ping Lin.
"Hardening Soft Information: Analyst Conservative Bias," With Kerry Xiao

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HONORS AND AWARDSThe Franklin Prize for Teaching Excellence, Finalist, 2016, 2018
Duke University Graduate Fellowship, 2001 - 2006
Deloitte & Touche Foundation Doctoral Fellowship Award, 2004
American Accounting Association Doctoral Consortium Fellow, 2004
PricewaterhouseCoopers/Long Tao Scholarship, China 2000

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EDITORIAL BOARDSThe Accounting Review (Editorial Board, 2017 - Present)

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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPSMember of American Accounting Association
Member of American Finance Association
Member ofCAPANA Program Committee (2018-2019)