Yaojia (Zoe) ZHANG
Academic Background
Aug 2020 - Present: The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Ph.D. in Finance and Accounting)
Supervision team: George YANG (CUHK); Hua ZHANG (CUHK); Xintong ZHAN (Fudan); Jie CAO (PolyU); Weiming ZHANG (IE)
Sep 2015 - July 2020: The Chinese University of Hong Kong (B.B.A. in Professional Accountancy, Minor in Finance) [First Class Honor]
Aug 2017 - Dec 2017: Exchange student in Miami Herbert Business School, The University of Miami
May 2019 - May 2019: Chicago Quantitative Alliance (CQA) Institute (Advanced Investment Management Course)
Research Interests
Institutions and Corporate Social Responsibility, Climate Finance, Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)
Corporate Finance, International Finance, Financial Accounting, Management
Working Papers
Socially Responsible Investors and Stock Price Informativeness (with George Yang, Xintong Zhan, and Weiming Zhang) -- ABFER (2024)
Opioid Epidemic and Implied Cost of Equity Capital (with Jie Cao, Xintong Zhan, and Weiming Zhang)
Board Gender Diversity and Corporate Carbon Emissions: International Evidence (with Jie Cao, Xintong Zhan, and Weiming Zhang)
Foreign Institutional Ownership and Corporate Carbon Emissions (with Jie Cao, Xintong Zhan, and Weiming Zhang) -- AFA Poster (2024), NFA (2023), UN PRI Academic Network Conference (2023), FMA-Europe (2023)
Publication
The Return Predictability of Carbon Emissions: Evidence from Hong Kong and Singapore (with Jie Cao, Xintong Zhan, and Weiming Zhang), 2023, Paciffc-Basin Finance Journal 82 (Special Issue), 102177.
Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant, CUHK Business School, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Empirical Asset Pricing (PhD)
Financial Management (Undergraduate)
Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management (Undergraduate)
Scholarships & Honors
Postgraduate Fellowship, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 2020-2024
CIMA Scholarship for CIMA Global Business Challenge, CIMA 2019
The Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants (HKICPA) Scholarship, HKICPA 2017
The Dean’s List, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Business School 2017