Frank Zhang

Yale School of Management

Professor of Accounting

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1.

High-Frequency Trading, Stock Volatility, and Price Discovery

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 14 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 27 Dec 2010
Frank Zhang
Yale School of Management
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High-frequency trading, trading volume, volatility, return, price discovery

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The Characteristics that Provide Independent Information about Average U.S. Monthly Stock Returns

Number of pages: 80 Posted: 09 May 2013 Last Revised: 16 Oct 2016
Jeremiah Green, John R. M. Hand and Frank Zhang
Texas A&M University - Department of Accounting, University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School and Yale School of Management
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Firm characteristics; anomalies; cross-section; average U.S. monthly returns

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The Supraview of Return Predictive Signals

Review of Accounting Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 18 May 2012 Last Revised: 17 Jan 2013
Jeremiah Green, John R. M. Hand and Frank Zhang
Texas A&M University - Department of Accounting, University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School and Yale School of Management
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Return predictive signals, supraview, efficient markets

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Investment Cash Flow Sensitivities Really Reflect Related Investment Decisions

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 11 Nov 2005 Last Revised: 02 Sep 2012
Robert M. Bushman, Abbie J. Smith and Frank Zhang
University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Yale School of Management
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Accruals, Cash flows, growth, investment-cash flow sensitivity

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Accruals, Investment, and the Accrual Anomaly

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Accruals, Investment, and the Accrual Anomaly

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 27 Jan 2006
Frank Zhang
Yale School of Management
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Accruals, investment, persistence, accrual anomaly, earnings management

Accruals, Investment, and the Accrual Anomaly

Accounting Review, Vol. 82, No. 5, pp. 1333-1364, October 2007
Posted: 05 Feb 2007 Last Revised: 04 Nov 2007
Frank Zhang
Yale School of Management

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Accruals, investment, persistence, accrual anomaly, earnings management

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Information Uncertainty and Analyst Forecast Behavior

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Information Uncertainty and Analyst Forecast Behavior

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 19 Jul 2005
Frank Zhang
Yale School of Management
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Analyst forecasts error, forecast revision, information uncertainty, underreaction

Information Uncertainty and Analyst Forecast Behavior

Contemporary Accounting Research, Vol. 23, No. 2, Summer 2006
Posted: 27 Jan 2006
Frank Zhang
Yale School of Management

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analyst forecasts error, forecast revision, information uncertainty, underreaction

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Information Uncertainty and Stock Returns

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Information Uncertainty and Stock Returns

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 26 Apr 2004
Frank Zhang
Yale School of Management
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Information uncertainty, analyst forecast revision, momentum, expected returns

Information Uncertainty and Stock Returns

Journal of Finance, Vol. 61, No. 1, February 2006
Posted: 08 Nov 2004
Frank Zhang
Yale School of Management

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Fundamental Analysis and Option Returns

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 21 Dec 2011 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2013
Theodore H. Goodman, Monica Neamtiu and Frank Zhang
Purdue University - Department of Accounting, City University of New York (CUNY) - Stan Ross Department of Accountancy and Yale School of Management
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Fundamental analysis, return, volatility, accounting signals

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The Use of Residual Income Valuation Methods by U.S. Sell-Side Equity Analysts

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 21 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 25 Aug 2016
John R. M. Hand, Joshua G. Coyne, Jeremiah Green and Frank Zhang
University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of Memphis - School of Accountancy, Texas A&M University - Department of Accounting and Yale School of Management
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Residual income valuation, DCF, sell-side equity analysts

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Errors and Questionable Judgments in Analysts' DCF Models

Review of Accounting Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 01 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 31 Jan 2016
Jeremiah Green, John R. M. Hand and Frank Zhang
Texas A&M University - Department of Accounting, University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School and Yale School of Management
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Analysts, sophistication, DCF, valuation, errors, judgments

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The power of firm fundamental information in explaining stock returns

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The power of firm fundamental information in explaining stock returns

Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 18-7
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 21 Dec 2017 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2020
Shuai Shao, Robert C. Stoumbos and Frank Zhang
Zhejiang University, Columbia University - Columbia Business School and Yale School of Management
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earnings, cash flows, firm fundamentals, stock returns

The Power of Firm Fundamental Information in Explaining Stock Returns

Review of Accounting Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 12 Nov 2020
Shuai Shao, Robert C. Stoumbos and Frank Zhang
Zhejiang University, Columbia University - Columbia Business School and Yale School of Management
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Stock returns, earnings, firm fundamentals

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The Changing Landscape of Accrual Accounting

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The Changing Landscape of Accrual Accounting

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 06 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2015
Robert M. Bushman, Alina Lerman and Frank Zhang
University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of Connecticut - Department of Accounting and Yale School of Management
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accrual accounting, accruals, cash flows, earnings management, accrual quality

The Changing Landscape of Accrual Accounting

Journal of Accounting Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 30 Nov 2015
Robert M. Bushman, Alina Lerman and Frank Zhang
University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of Connecticut - Department of Accounting and Yale School of Management
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accrual accounting, accruals, cash flows, earnings management, accrual quality

The Changing Landscape of Accrual Accounting

Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 54, No. 1, 2016
Posted: 19 Jun 2016
Robert M. Bushman, Alina Lerman and Frank Zhang
University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of Connecticut - Department of Accounting and Yale School of Management

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accrual accounting;accruals;cash flows;earnings management;accrual quality

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Tax Expense Momentum

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Tax Expense Momentum

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 12 Dec 2007 Last Revised: 14 Oct 2010
Jacob K. Thomas and Frank Zhang
Yale School of Management and Yale School of Management
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tax expense, stock return, anomaly, momentum

Tax Expense Momentum

Journal of Accounting Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 13 Dec 2010
Jacob K. Thomas and Frank Zhang
Yale School of Management and Yale School of Management
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tax expense, momentum, stock returns

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Analyst Interest as an Early Indicator of Firm Fundamental Changes and Stock Returns

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Analyst Interest as an Early Indicator of Firm Fundamental Changes and Stock Returns

The Accounting Review: May 2015, Vol. 90, No. 3, pp. 1049-1078.
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 05 May 2012 Last Revised: 25 Jul 2017
Michael J. Jung, M.H. Franco Wong and Frank Zhang
University of Delaware - Accounting & MIS, University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management and Yale School of Management
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analyst interest, firm fundamentals, analyst coverage, institutional ownership, trading volume, stock returns

Analyst Interest as an Early Indicator of Firm Fundamental Changes and Stock Returns

The Accounting Review: May 2015, Vol. 90, No. 3, pp. 1049-1078.
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 14 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 25 Jul 2017
Michael J. Jung, M.H. Franco Wong and Frank Zhang
University of Delaware - Accounting & MIS, University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management and Yale School of Management
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analyst interest, firm fundamentals, analyst coverage, institutional ownership, trading volume, stock returns

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Non-Executive Employee Ownership and Corporate Risk

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Non-Executive Employee Ownership and Corporate Risk

Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 2297996
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 25 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 11 Jun 2014
Francesco Bova, Kalin S. Kolev, Jacob K. Thomas and Frank Zhang
University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management, City University of New York (CUNY) - Stan Ross Department of Accountancy, Yale School of Management and Yale School of Management
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Employee ownership, employee compensation, executive compensation, risk

Non-Executive Employee Ownership and Corporate Risk

Accounting Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 13 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 04 Aug 2014
Francesco Bova, Kalin S. Kolev, Jacob K. Thomas and Frank Zhang
University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management, City University of New York (CUNY) - Stan Ross Department of Accountancy, Yale School of Management and Yale School of Management
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Employee ownership, employee compensation, executive compensation, risk

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Valuation of Tax Expense

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Valuation of Tax Expense

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 30 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 27 Jun 2012
Jacob K. Thomas and Frank Zhang
Yale School of Management and Yale School of Management
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Valuation, stock returns, tax expense

Valuation of Tax Expense

Review of Accounting Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 28 Aug 2013
Jacob K. Thomas and Frank Zhang
Yale School of Management and Yale School of Management
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Tax expense, stock returns, profitability, value relevance, valuation

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Understanding the Accrual Anomaly

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Understanding the Accrual Anomaly

Ross School of Business Paper No. 1100
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 25 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 16 Sep 2009
Jin (Ginger) Wu, Lu Zhang and Frank Zhang
University of Georgia - Department of Banking and Finance, Ohio State University - Fisher College of Business and Yale School of Management
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The accruals anomaly, total accruals, discretionary accruals, net operating assets, investment-based asset pricing, capital investment, time-varying expected returns

Understanding the Accrual Anomaly

NBER Working Paper No. w13525
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 24 Oct 2007 Last Revised: 17 Jun 2021
Jin (Ginger) Wu, Lu Zhang and Frank Zhang
University of Georgia - Department of Banking and Finance, Ohio State University - Fisher College of Business and Yale School of Management
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Overreaction to Intra-Industry Information Transfers?

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Overreaction to Intra-Industry Information Transfers?

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 07 Dec 2006 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2007
Jacob K. Thomas and Frank Zhang
Yale School of Management and Yale School of Management
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Intra-industry information transfer, market efficiency, stock returns, earnings surprises

Overreaction to Intra-Industry Information Transfers?

Journal of Accounting Research, Forthcoming
Posted: 21 Nov 2007
Jacob K. Thomas and Frank Zhang
Yale School of Management and Yale School of Management

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information transfer, earnings, returns, overreaction

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CEO Optimism, Analyst Rationality, and Earnings Forecast Bias

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 30 Sep 2005 Last Revised: 10 Dec 2009
M.H. Franco Wong and Frank Zhang
University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management and Yale School of Management
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Managerial optimism, analyst forecast, rationality

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Buy-Side Analysts and Earnings Conference Calls

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Buy-Side Analysts and Earnings Conference Calls

Journal of Accounting Research, June 2018, Vol. 56, Issue 3, pp. 913-952.
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 24 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 26 May 2018
Michael J. Jung, M.H. Franco Wong and Frank Zhang
University of Delaware - Accounting & MIS, University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management and Yale School of Management
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Buy-side analysts, institutional investors, sell-side analysts, earnings conference calls

Buy-Side Analysts and Earnings Conference Calls

Journal of Accounting Research, June 2018, Vol. 56, Issue 3, pp. 913-952.
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 27 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 26 May 2018
Michael J. Jung, M.H. Franco Wong and Frank Zhang
University of Delaware - Accounting & MIS, University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management and Yale School of Management
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Buy-side analysts, institutional investors, sell-side analysts, earnings conference calls

Buy‐Side Analysts and Earnings Conference Calls

Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 56, No. 3, 2018
Posted: 15 Aug 2018
Michael J. Jung, M.H. Franco Wong and Frank Zhang
University of Delaware - Accounting & MIS, University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management and Yale School of Management

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Buy-Side Analysts, Institutional Investors, Sell-Side Analysts, Earnings Conference Calls

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Spring-Loading Future Performance When No One is Looking? Earnings and Cash Flow Management Around Acquisitions

Review of Accounting Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 27 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 29 Nov 2015
Shuping Chen, Jacob K. Thomas and Frank Zhang
University of Texas at Austin - Red McCombs School of Business, Yale School of Management and Yale School of Management
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Earnings management, cash flow management, merger and acquisition, accruals

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Further Evidence on Analyst and Investor Mis-Weighting of Prior Period Cash Flows and Accruals

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 23 Jun 2003
Anwer S. Ahmed, Frank Zhang and Khalid Nainar
Texas A&M University - Mays Business School, Yale School of Management and McMaster University - Michael G. DeGroote School of Business
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market efficiency, analyst forecast efficiency, accruals, cash flows

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Why are Recommendations Optimistic? Evidence from Analysts’ Coverage Initiations

Review of Accounting Studies 16, 2011
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 18 Jun 2007 Last Revised: 16 Oct 2013
Yonca Ertimur, Frank Zhang and Volkan Muslu
University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Accounting, Yale School of Management and C.T. Bauer College of Business University of Houston
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Analysts, Conflicts of Interest, Selection Bias, Coverage Initiations

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Measuring the information content of disclosures: The role of return noise

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 29 Jun 2018 Last Revised: 01 Oct 2020
Jacob K. Thomas, Frank Zhang and Wei Zhu
Yale School of Management, Yale School of Management and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Accountancy
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Return noise; return volatility; information content; U-statistic

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Orphans Deserve Attention: Financial Reporting in the Missing Months When Corporations Change Fiscal Year

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Orphans Deserve Attention: Financial Reporting in the Missing Months When Corporations Change Fiscal Year

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 31 May 2010 Last Revised: 06 Sep 2011
Kai Du and Frank Zhang
Pennsylvania State University and Yale School of Management
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Financial reporting, earnings management, accruals, return, fiscal year-end

Orphans Deserve Attention: Financial Reporting in the Missing Months When Corporations Change Fiscal Year

Accounting Review, May 2013
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 04 Dec 2012
Kai Du and Frank Zhang
Pennsylvania State University and Yale School of Management
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Earnings management, incentives, consequences, fiscal year end

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The Q-Theory Approach to Understanding the Accrual Anomaly

Journal of Accounting Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 31 Aug 2009
Jin (Ginger) Wu, Lu Zhang and Frank Zhang
University of Georgia - Department of Banking and Finance, Ohio State University - Fisher College of Business and Yale School of Management
Downloads 429 (82,947)
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The accruals anomaly, total accruals, discretionary accruals, net operating assets, investment-based asset pricing, capital investment, time-varying expected returns

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Does financial reporting above or below operating income matter to firms and investors? The case of investment income in China

Review of Accounting Studies, 2018 (23), 1754-1790.
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 27 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 02 Jun 2019
Mei Luo, Shuai Shao and Frank Zhang
Tsinghua University - School of Economics & Management, Zhejiang University and Yale School of Management
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core earnings, investment income, operating income, mispricing

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GDP Management to Meet or Beat Growth Targets

Journal of Accounting & Economics (JAE), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 18 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2018
Lyu Changjiang, Kemin Wang, Frank Zhang and Zhang Xin
Fudan University - School of Management, Fudan University - School of Management, Yale School of Management and Fudan University - School of Management
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GDP growth, earnings management, political economy, discontinuity, forecast error

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Information Uncertainty and Acquirer Wealth Losses

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 21 Nov 2007 Last Revised: 24 Feb 2011
Merle Erickson, Shiing-wu Wang and Frank Zhang
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, University of Southern California - Leventhal School of Accounting and Yale School of Management
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Merger, acquisition, cost of capital, uncertainty, return

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Earnings Management via Not-wholly-owned Subsidiaries

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 14 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 09 Mar 2021
Mei Luo, Frank Zhang and Xinyi Zhang
Tsinghua University - School of Economics & Management, Yale School of Management and Sun Yat-Sen University (SYSU) - Business School
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earnings management, income shifting, tunneling, subsidiary, loss

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The Change in Information Uncertainty and Acquirer Wealth Losses

Review of Accounting Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 01 Jun 2011
Merle Erickson, Shiing-wu Wang and Frank Zhang
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, University of Southern California - Leventhal School of Accounting and Yale School of Management
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information uncertainty, return, merger, acquisition, cost of capital

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Consensus Analyst Target Prices: Information Content and Implications for Investors

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 21 Oct 2019
Asa Palley, Thomas D. Steffen and Frank Zhang
Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Operation & Decision Technologies, Yale University School of Management and Yale School of Management
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analyst forecast, target price, stock return, dispersion, retail investors

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Using Economic Links between Firms to Detect Accounting Fraud

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 02 Mar 2021
Chenchen Li, Ningzhong Li and Frank Zhang
University of Texas at Dallas, University of Texas at Dallas and Yale School of Management
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Fraud, economic link, revenue, accounting information, customer

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The Death of Stock Splits: An Increase in the Costs to Split

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 26 May 2021
John C. Heater, Ye Liu, Qin Tan and Frank Zhang
Duke University - Fuqua School of Business, Fudan University, City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) and Yale School of Management
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Stock Splits, Managerial Performance, Signaling, Capital Markets, Earnings

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Orange is the New Black: Changing Landscapes of Earnings Surprises and the Market Reaction

Posted: 26 May 2021
John C. Heater, Ye Liu, Qin Tan and Frank Zhang
Duke University - Fuqua School of Business, Fudan University, City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) and Yale School of Management

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Analyst forecast, earnings surprises, earnings announcement returns, capital markets, discontinuity

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Meet, Beat, and Pollute

Posted: 21 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2021
Jacob K. Thomas, Wentao Yao, Frank Zhang and Wei Zhu
Yale School of Management, The University of Hong Kong, Yale School of Management and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Accountancy

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managerial short-termism, real earnings management, externality, pollution, ESG, sustainable investing

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Dark trading and post earnings announcement drift

Management Science
Posted: 01 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 17 Sep 2020
Jacob K. Thomas, Frank Zhang and Wei Zhu
Yale School of Management, Yale School of Management and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Accountancy

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Dark trading; Post-earnings-announcement-drift; Arbitrage costs; Price efficiency