Rong Zhao

University of Calgary

Associate Professor

2500 University Drive, NW

Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4

Canada

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (13)

1.

A Better Estimate of Internally Generated Intangible Capital

Forthcoming, Management Science
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 07 Sep 2021 Last Revised: 05 Apr 2024
Thunderbird School of Global Management, Arizona State University, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Accounting, Business Law & Taxation, University of Calgary - Haskayne School of Business and University of Calgary
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Intangibles, Book Value, Financial Statement Analysis, Valuation

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Do Digital Technology Firms Earn Excess Profits? Alternative Perspectives

The Accounting Review. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.2308/TAR-2021-0176
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 15 Dec 2020 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2023
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Accounting, Business Law & Taxation, University of Calgary - Haskayne School of Business and University of Calgary
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Internal Rate of Return, Economic Profitability, Digital Giants, Anticompetitive Practices, Technology, Abnormal Profits, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple

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Economic Substance behind Texas Political Anti-ESG Sanctions

Number of pages: 74 Posted: 16 Mar 2023 Last Revised: 08 Mar 2024
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Accounting, Business Law & Taxation, University of Calgary - Haskayne School of Business and University of Calgary
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ESG; Politics; Greenwashing; Texas; BlackRock

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Contrarian Share Price Reactions to Earnings Surprises

Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Vol. 27, No. 2, 2012
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 03 Jun 2007 Last Revised: 24 Jan 2017
W. Bruce Johnson and Rong Zhao
University of Iowa - Department of Accounting and University of Calgary
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contrarian stock returns, earnings surprises, post-earnings-announcement drift

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Description and Download Link for Data from A Better Estimate of Internally Generated Intangible Capital

Number of pages: 4 Posted: 04 May 2024
Thunderbird School of Global Management, Arizona State University, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Accounting, Business Law & Taxation, University of Calgary - Haskayne School of Business and University of Calgary
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Intangibles, Book Value, Financial Statement Analysis

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Selective Disclosure and the Role of Form 8-K in the Post-Reg FD Era

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting (2020) 47: 365-396
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 21 Jun 2015 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2022
University of Iowa - Department of Accounting, California State University, Fullerton and University of Calgary
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Form 8-K filing, Selective disclosure, Connections, Analysts' idiosyncratic information

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Description and Download Link for Internal Rate of Return Data

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 17 Oct 2022
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Accounting, Business Law & Taxation, University of Calgary - Haskayne School of Business and University of Calgary
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Internal rate of return

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Effect of Investor Sentiment on the Stock Market Reaction to Earnings News: The Case of Loss Firms

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 22 May 2015
David Folsom, Xu Li and Rong Zhao
Weber State University (WSU) - Goddard School of Business and Economics, The University of Hong Kong and University of Calgary
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Investor sentiment; Loss firms; Earnings response coefficient

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Supply Chain Relational Capital and the Bullwhip Effect: An Empirical Analysis Using Financial Disclosures

International Journal of Operations and Production Management Volume 39 (5) DOI 10.1108/IJOPM-03-2018-0186
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 26 Nov 2018 Last Revised: 14 Nov 2021
University of Calgary, University of Calgary - Haskayne School of Business, University of Illinois at ChicagoUniversity of Illinois at Chicago and College of Business
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Bullwhip Effect, Relational Capital, Supply Chain, Regression Analysis, Financial Statements

10.

Cost Uniqueness and Information Uncertainty

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 05 Jun 2023 Last Revised: 02 Aug 2023
University of Calgary - Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary - Haskayne School of Business, Toronto Metropolitan University and University of Calgary
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firm-specific information, cost uniqueness, revenue uniqueness, information uncertainty

11.

Revenue Benchmark Beating and the Sector-Level Investor Pricing of Revenue and Earnings

Accounting Horizons (2017) 31 (2): 45–67.
Posted: 16 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2022
Rong Zhao
University of Calgary

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Revenue Benchmark Beating, Sector-Level Incentives, Life Cycle

12.

Management Sales Forecasts and Firm Market Power

Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance (2021) 36(2): 278-303
Posted: 09 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2022
Andrew Acito, David Folsom and Rong Zhao
Virginia Tech - Department of Accounting and Information Systems, Weber State University (WSU) - Goddard School of Business and Economics and University of Calgary

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sales guidance, management forecasts, market power, voluntary disclosure, product market competition

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Are Corporate Risk-Taking Practices Indicative of Aggressive Reporting Practices?

Journal of American Taxation Association (2018) 40 (1): 31–55., Darden Business School Working Paper No. 1066846
Posted: 09 Dec 2007 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2022
University of Virginia - Darden School of Business, University of Virginia - Darden School of Business, Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Accounting and University of Calgary

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Aggressive reporting, tax avoidance, earnings management, corporate risk-taking