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Frank Zhou is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. His research focuses on strategic disclosure dynamics in capital markets and how these interactions influence firm reporting and investment decisions. He serves on the editorial boards of The Accounting Review and Accounting Horizons, and has published in top journals like Management Science and Journal of Accounting Research. Zhou teaches Financial Accounting to MBAs and has received multiple teaching excellence awards.
Education: PhD and MBA in Accounting (University of Chicago), MSc in Finance (Tilburg University), BS in Finance (Nankai University).
Research Interests: Strategic interactions between managers' disclosures and stakeholder learning, with applications to audit quality, fraud detection, systemic risk, and governance mechanisms. His work bridges accounting theory with empirical analyses of capital market behaviors.
Notable contributions include analyzing auditor tenure effects on misreporting, identifying fraud power laws, and investigating cultural impacts on shareholder expropriation. His 2023 paper on financial reporting quality and myopic investments explores how disclosure quality affects long-term corporate investment decisions.
- Awards: Arnold Zellner Doctoral Prize (2015), Chicago Booth PhD Fellowship (2011–2015), CentER Scholarship (Tilburg University).
- Teaching: Courses include ACCT1010 (Financial Reporting), ACCT6110 (Financial Accounting), and advanced research seminars (ACCT9400–9430).
Active in scholarly communities, Zhou collaborates with institutions globally and has been featured in Knowledge at Wharton discussing how investor learning shapes firm behavior.
