Christina Zhu

University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School

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Philadelphia, PA 19104-6365

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1.

Financial Reporting and Consumer Behavior

Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research Paper
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 28 Sep 2021 Last Revised: 25 Oct 2023
Suzie Noh, Eric C. So and Christina Zhu
Stanford Graduate School of BusinessMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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financial reporting, earnings announcement, consumers, limited attention, consumer demographics, earnings surprise, big data

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Big Data as a Governance Mechanism

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 04 May 2018 Last Revised: 07 Mar 2023
Christina Zhu
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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Price Informativeness, Insider Trading, Investment, Institutional Investors, Corporate Governance, Big Data, Technology

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Retail Investors and ESG News

Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research Paper
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 15 Mar 2023 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2023
Qianqian Li, Edward M. Watts and Christina Zhu
Stanford University, Graduate School of Business, Students, Yale School of Management and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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Retail Investors; Individual Investors; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG); Socially Responsible Investing (SRI)

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Capital Market Effects of Media Synthesis and Dissemination: Evidence from Robo-Journalism

Review of Accounting Studies (2018) 23:1-36
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 21 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 05 Jul 2019
Elizabeth Blankespoor, Ed deHaan and Christina Zhu
University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business, Stanford Graduate School of Business and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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media, synthesis, dissemination, automation, trading volume, liquidity

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Why Do Individual Investors Disregard Accounting Information? The Roles of Information Awareness and Acquisition Costs

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Why Do Individual Investors Disregard Accounting Information? The Roles of Information Awareness and Acquisition Costs

Journal of Accounting Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 25 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 14 Jan 2019
Elizabeth Blankespoor, Ed deHaan, John Wertz and Christina Zhu
University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Accounting and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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information costs, trading volume, media, earnings announcements, automation, technical trading

Why Do Individual Investors Disregard Accounting Information? The Roles of Information Awareness and Acquisition Costs

Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 57, No. 1, 2019
Posted: 13 Jun 2019
Elizabeth Blankespoor, Ed deHaan, John Wertz and Christina Zhu
University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Accounting and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School

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information costs; information awareness; information acquisition; individual investors; earnings announcements; trading volume; automation

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The Dark Side of Investor Conferences: Evidence of Managerial Opportunism

The Accounting Review, forthcoming, Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research Paper
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 17 Nov 2020 Last Revised: 14 Feb 2023
Brian J. Bushee, Daniel J. Taylor and Christina Zhu
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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Investor conferences, voluntary disclosure, private information, insider trading, opportunism

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Obfuscation in Mutual Funds

Journal of Accounting & Economics (JAE), Vol. 72, No. 2/3, 2021
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 13 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 12 Jul 2021
Ed deHaan, Yang Song, Chloe Xie, Chloe Xie and Christina Zhu
Stanford Graduate School of Business, University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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mutual funds; disclosure obfuscation; strategic disclosure; price dispersion; retail investors

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Peer-Group Choice, Chief Executive Officer Compensation, and Firm Performance

Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 240, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 19-15
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 13 Feb 2019 Last Revised: 19 Feb 2021
David F. Larcker, Charles McClure and Christina Zhu
Stanford Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago Booth School of Business and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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CEO Compensation; Peer Groups; Agency Problems; CEO Labor Market

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Active Funds and Bundled News

Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 18-35, 29th Annual Conference on Financial Economics & Accounting 2018, https://doi.org/10.2308/TAR-2018-0380
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 27 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 22 Feb 2021
Charles M.C. Lee and Christina Zhu
Foster School of Business, University of Washington and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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actively managed funds, earnings announcements, management forecasts, information processing, price efficiency, trading volume

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Does Context Matter? Evidence from Internet Research Activity by Sophisticated Investors

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 31 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 13 Jul 2020
Alan Kwan and Christina Zhu
The University of Hong Kong and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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earnings announcements, adverse selection, sophisticated investors, media, liquidity, information acquisition, technology

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Economic Consequences of Transparency Regulation: Evidence from Bank Mortgage Lending

Journal of Accounting Research, Forthcoming, Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research Paper
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 18 Feb 2022 Last Revised: 10 Jul 2023
Allison Nicoletti and Christina Zhu
University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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information processing costs, consumer disclosures, real effects, mortgage lending, banks, fintechs, transparency regulation

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Liquidity, Trade, and Investor-Identity Disclosure

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 28 Feb 2022 Last Revised: 11 Nov 2022
Robert E. Verrecchia and Christina Zhu
University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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transparency regulation, trading volume, bid-ask spreads, sophisticated investors, short selling

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A Meeting of the Minds: How Do Companies Distribute Knowledge and Workload Across Board Committees?

Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Closer Look Series: Topics, Issues and Controversies in Corporate Governance No. CGRP-46, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 15-6
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 09 Dec 2014
David F. Larcker, Brian Tayan and Christina Zhu
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University - Graduate School of Business and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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board of directors, board committees, board committee overlap, board committees and shared knowledge, corporate governance

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Internet Appendix for: 'Capital Market Effects of Media Synthesis and Dissemination: Evidence from Robo-Journalism'

Review of Accounting Studies, Forthcoming, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 17-38
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 11 May 2017 Last Revised: 04 May 2020
Elizabeth Blankespoor, Ed deHaan and Christina Zhu
University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business, Stanford Graduate School of Business and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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media, synthesis, dissemination, automation, trading volume, liquidity

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Suboptimal Investment and Local Preferences: Evidence from 529 College Savings Plans

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Suboptimal Investment and Local Preferences: Evidence from 529 College Savings Plans

Wharton Pension Research Council Working Paper No. 2023-2, Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research Paper
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 19 Jan 2023 Last Revised: 18 Oct 2023
James J. Li, Olivia S. Mitchell and Christina Zhu
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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household finance, 529 plans, financial literacy, information processing frictions, disclosure complexity

Suboptimal Investment and Local Preferences: Evidence from 529 College Savings Plans

NBER Working Paper No. w30848
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 16 Jan 2023 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2023
James J. Li, Olivia S. Mitchell and Christina Zhu
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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Online Appendix for: 'Obfuscation in Mutual Funds'

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 15 Apr 2021
Ed deHaan, Yang Song, Chloe Xie, Chloe Xie and Christina Zhu
Stanford Graduate School of Business, University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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mutual funds; disclosure obfuscation; strategic disclosure; price dispersion; retail investors

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Online Appendix for 'Economic Consequences of Transparency Regulation: Evidence from Bank Mortgage Lending'

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 10 Jul 2023
Allison Nicoletti and Christina Zhu
University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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information processing costs, consumer disclosures, real effects, mortgage lending, banks, fintechs, transparency regulation