Ying Zhou

Assistant Professor

Accounting

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Education

• Ph.D. Accounting, University of Florida, 2014
• M.S. Management, University of Florida, 2009
• M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, 2009
• B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fudan University, 2007

Expertise

• Disclosure Regulation and Financial Reporting
• Auditing

Publications

• “Securitization and Insider Trading” with Stephen Ryan and Jenny Tucker. The Accounting Review, 2016, Vol. 91(2): 649-675.
• “Proprietary Costs and Corporate Lobbying against Changes in Mandatory Disclosure” sole-authored. Management Science, forthcoming.
• “Fool Me Once, Shame on You; Fool Me Twice, Shame on Me: The Long-Term Impact of Arthur Andersen’s Demise on Partners’ Audit Quality” with Feng Guo, Ling Lisic, Jeffrey Pittman, Tim Seidel, and Mi Zhou. Contemporary Accounting Research, forthcoming.
• “The Effect of Audit Quality on a Firm’s Internal Information Environment: Evidence from Group Audits” with Tom Adams. Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, conditionally accepted.

Working Papers

• “Selection Bias in Audit Firm Tenure Research” with Dave Weber
• “Incremental Usefulness of the Parent-only Balance Sheet to Debt Holders: Evidence from Banks” with Jenny Tucker and Jigao Zhu
• “Disclosure Regulation and the Competition between Public and Private Firms: The Case of Segment Reporting”
• “The Client (Non-)Reaction to PCAOB Inspection Reports: Lack of Information, Lack of Authority, or Lack of Competition?” with Brant Christensen, Feng Guo, and Mike Wilkins
• “Corporate Groups and Debt Contracting: Does the Lack of Entity-Level Information in Consolidated Financial Statements Concern Lenders?” with Jenny Tucker and Mark Zakota

Awards

• AAA FARS Excellence in Reviewing Award, 2018
• Best Paper Award Honorable Mention, UConn School of Business, 2016
• Alumni Fellowship, University of Florida, 2009-2014
• AAA/Deloitte/J. Michael Cook Doctoral Consortium Fellow, 2011
• Certificate of Outstanding Achievement, University of Florida, 2007
• Dow Scholarship, Fudan University, 2006

Service

• Faculty mentor for the PriceWaterhouseCoopers case competition, 2014
  • team named as a PwC Challenge National Semi Finalist