Professor Zhang's research focuses on empirical capital market researches, including stock anomalies, fundamental analysis, investor and analyst behavior, management incentives, and corporate financial reporting. He is interested in both rational and behavioral approaches in studying stock anomalies and cross-sectional variations in stock returns.
Selected Works
Articles
Meet, beat, and pollute
J. Thomas, W. Yao, X. F. Zhang, and W. Zhu,
Review of Accounting Studies
Forthcoming
Using economic links between firms to detect accounting fraud
C. Li, N. Li, and X. F. Zhang
The Accounting Review
Forthcoming
Measuring the information content of disclosures: The role of return noise
J. Thomas, X. F. Zhang, and W. Zhu
The Accounting Review
Forthcoming
Dark trading and post earnings announcement drift
J. Thomas, X. F. Zhang, and W. Zhu
Management Science
2021
The power of firm fundamentals in explaining stock returns
S. Shao, R. Stoumbos, and X. F. Zhang
Review of Accounting Studies
2021