Ying Zhou

Assistant Professor

Accounting

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Education/Professional Certification

• 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 Engineering, Fudan University, 2007

Expertise

• Disclosure Regulation and Financial Reporting
• Insider Trading

Publications

• “Securitization and Insider Trading” with Stephen Ryan and Jenny Tucker. Forthcoming. The Accounting Review.

Working Papers

• “A Lobbying Approach to Evaluating the Competitive Harm of Mandatory Disclosure of Proprietary Information: The Case of Segment Reporting”
• “The Effect of Audit Quality on a Firm’s Internal Information Environment: Evidence from Group Audits” with Tom Adams
• “Disclosure Regulation and the Competition between Public and Private Firms: The Case of Segment Reporting”
• “Are Parent-only Financial Statements Informative? Evidence from the Pricing of Credit Default Swaps” with Jenny Tucker and Jigao Zhu
• “Selection Bias in Auditor Tenure Research” with Ce Wen

Current & Prior Positions

• Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut, August 2014 – Present

Awards

• 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

Review and Editorial Work

• Ad-Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Accounting Literature
• Ad-Hoc Reviewer, American Accounting Association Annual Meeting
• Ad-Hoc Reviewer, American Accounting Association FARS Mid-Year Meeting

Committees and Professional Service

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