Publication
Research Interests: Debt contracts, Financial regulation, China capital market
The Impact of Bank Financing on Borrowers' Voluntary Disclosure and Real Investments (with Mingyi Hung, Yupeng Lin, and Lynn Wang)
Management Science, forthcoming
HKUST; CUHK (Shenzhen); City University of Hong Kong; Shanghai Jiaotong University; Sun Yat-Sen University; University of Vienna.
Wrong Kind of Transparency? Mutual Funds’ Higher Reporting Frequency, Window Dressing, and Performance (with Xiangang Xin and Eric P. Yeung)
Journal of Accounting Research 62: 737-781 (2024).
Cornell University; City University of Hong Kong.
Labor Mobility and Loan Origination (with Sumit Agarwal, Yupeng Lin, and Yunqi Zhang)
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 59: 2099-2132 (2024)
GCREC Best Paper Award, 25th AsRES Annual Conference (Singapore); AREUEA International Conference (Guangzhou); CFAM (Hangzhou).
The Real Effects of Implicit Government Guarantee: Evidence from Chinese State-Owned Enterprise Defaults (with Shuang Jin and Wei Wang)
Management Science 69: 3157-3758 (2023)
SFS Cavalcade (Yale); South Carolina Fixed Income and Financial Institutions Conference; Summer Institute of Finance Conference (SAIF); FMA Annual Meetings (Boston); FMA Asia/Pacific (Hong Kong); China Financial Research Conference (Beijing); Journal of Law, Finance, and Accounting Conference (Hong Kong).(with Baiqiang Wang, Li Huang, and Oliver Li)
Nature: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 9: 120 (2022)
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 54: 2179–2207 (2019)
CICF (Chengdu); Summer Institute of Finance Conference (Lijiang); Australasian Finance and Banking Conference (Sydney); FMA Asia/Pacific Doctoral Consortium (Tokyo).
Employee Inside Debt and Firm Risk-Taking: Evidence from Employee Deposit Programs in Japan (with Sudipto Dasgupta, Yupeng Lin, and Takeshi Yamada)
Review of Corporate Finance Studies 8: 302–347 (2019)
Best Paper Award, Asian Finance Association (Nanchang);EFA (Cambridge); FIRS (Quebec City); ABFER (Singapore); CICF (Shenzhen); CSEF Conference on Finance and Labor (Capri); Mitsui Finance Symposium on Labor and Finance (Ann Arbor); Auckland Finance Meeting; FIRN Corporate Finance Conference (Sydney).Acquiring Organizational Capital (with Peixin Li, Weikai Li, and Baolian Wang)
Finance Research Letters 25: 30–35 (2018)
IFABS (Hangzhou); FMA Asia/Pacific (Sydney); Asian Finance Association (Changsha).Teaching
Course instructor
Corporate Finance
PhD Program, Zhejiang University 2023
Financial Accounting
iMBA Program, Zhejiang University, 2023
Intermediate Financial Accounting
Undergraduate Program, Zhejiang University, 2023, 2024
Corporate Governance
Master Program, City University of Hong Kong, 2020, 2021
Financial Management
Master Program, City University of Hong Kong, 2017, 2018, 2019
Introduction to Managerial Accounting
Undergraduate Program, City University of Hong Kong, 2016, 2017
Theoretical Foundations of Banking
Master Program, Peking University HSBC Business School, 2015
Awards
Best Paper Award
The 7th China Academic Conference on Finance and Accounting (Renmin University)
Best Paper Award 1st Prize
AsRES-GCREC-AREUEA Joint International Real Estate Conference, 2021
General Research Fund
Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2018
Early Career Scheme Grant
Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2017
Dean's Scholarship for Research Excellence
HKUST, 2014
ANU Best Paper Award
Asian Finance Association Annual Meeting, 2013
Contact Information
Zilong Zhang
Email: zilzhang@zju.edu.cn
School of Economics
Chengjun Complex Building 7
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou
Zhejiang Province, P. R. China