Dr Jing ZHAO

PolyU Scholars Hub

Assistant Professor

PhD

PolyU Scholars Hub

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Biography

Jing Zhao is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She joined the School of Accounting and Finance upon the completion of her Ph.D. at the University of Hong Kong.
Jing’s research interests are behavioral finance, market microstructure, ESG, and the economic and social impact of corporate digitalization and FinTech. Her research has been accepted for publication in top academic journals such as the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, Journal of Corporate Finance, etc. She is also the recipient of multiple prestigious research grants.

Education and Academic Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Hong Kong

Research Interests

Research Output

Selected Publication

Utpal Bhattacharya, Amit Kumar, Sujata Visaria, and Jing Zhao, 2023, Do Women Get Worse Financial Advice? Forthcoming at Journal of Finance.

Feature Story in the Bloomberg, September 5th, 2020.
Asian Development Bank Working Paper Series, 2023.

Ng, Jeffery, Hong Wu, Weihuan Zhai, and Jing Zhao, 2021, The Effect of Shareholder Activism on Earnings Management: Evidence from Shareholder Proposals, Journal of Corporate Finance 69, 102014.
Bhattacharya, Utpal, Wei-Yu Kuo, Tse-Chun Lin, and Jing Zhao, 2018, Do Superstitious Traders Lose Money? Management Science 64(8), 3772—3791.

Feature Story in the Economist, August 30th, 2014

Kuo, Wei-Yu, Tse-Chun Lin, and Jing Zhao, 2015, Cognitive Limitation and Investment Performance: Evidence from Limit Order Clustering, Review of Financial Studies 28 (3), 838—875.

The 10th Taiwan Security and Future Institute Best Paper Award, runner up

Selected Working Papers

Kuo, Wei-Yu, Tse-Chun Lin, and Jing Zhao, 2023, The Correlated Trading and Investment Performance of Individual Investors, Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Empirical Finance.