Ying Zhou

Associate Professor, Ackerman Scholar

Accounting

Ying Zhou is an Associate Professor of Accounting at the University of Connecticut. Her research interests include financial misreporting, insider trading, and the role of gatekeepers in capital markets. Her research has been published in leading academic journals such as The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, and Management Science. Her work has been cited in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s proposed rule and has been featured in Columbia Law School’s Blue Sky Blog, UConn Today, and BYU Marriott News.

Selected Publications:

• “Securitization and Insider Trading” with Stephen Ryan and Jenny Tucker. 2016. The Accounting Review 91 (2): 649-675.
• “Proprietary Costs and Corporate Lobbying against Changes in Mandatory Disclosure” sole-authored. 2022. Management Science 68 (11): 8483-8505.
• “Fool Me Once, Shame on You; Fool Me Twice, Shame on Me: The Long-Term Impact of Arthur Andersen’s Demise on Partners’ Audit Quality” with Feng Guo, Ling Lisic, Jeffrey Pittman, Tim Seidel, and Mi Zhou. 2022. Contemporary Accounting Research 39 (3): 1986-2022.
• “Inexperienced Component Auditors and the Internal Information Asymmetry of Multinational Corporations” with Tom Adams. Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance, forthcoming.
• ““Selection Bias in Audit Firm Tenure Research” with Dave Weber and Ce Wen. Review of Accounting Studies, forthcoming.