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Lu Zhang

Dr. Lu Zhang

Associate Professor
DepartmentFinance
EducationPhD
OfficeTRS 1-040
Phone416-979-5000 ext: 557524

Overview

Dr. Lu Zhang is an Associate professor of Finance at Ted Rogers School of Management. She received a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Alberta. Her research interests include corporate finance and financial economics. Dr. Zhang currently teaches Managerial Finance and Principals of Finance at TRSM. 

Journal Articles:
Farrar, Jonathan, and Lu Zhang. "Entebbe Ltd.: A Tax Case." Accounting Perspectives 18, no. 1 (2019): 33-37.
Zhang, Lu Y., and Alice O. Nakamura “Comovement and Sentiment-Based Trading.” The Empirical Economics Letters, no. 2 (2019).
Zhang, Lu Y., and Melissa Toffanin. "The information environment of the firm and the market valuation of R&D." Journal of Business Finance & Accounting 45, no. 9-10 (2018): 1051-1081.
Patro, Sukesh, Lu Y. Zhang, and Rong Zhao. "Director tenure and corporate social responsibility: The tradeoff between experience and independence." Journal of Business Research 93 (2018): 51-66.
Harper, Michael J., Alice O. Nakamura, and Lu Zhang. "Difficulties Assessing Multifactor Productivity for Canada." International Productivity Monitor 24 (2012): 76-84
Yu, W., K. Zhu, H. Wang, and L. Zhang. "Playing safe on the board: the role of independent directors-evidence from listed firms in China." China accounting and finance review 3 (2010):107-148.
Morck, Randall, Bernard Yeung, and Lu Y. Zhang. "Idiosyncrasy as a Leading Indicator." No. w30071. National Bureau of Economic Research, 2022.
Morck, Randall, Bernard Yeung, and Lu Zhang. "Investors Meet Dynamic Strategy." Strategy Science 7.2 (2022): 120-129.
Berger, Leslie, Jonathan Farrar, and Lu Zhang. "An empirical analysis of the displacement effect of TFSAs on RRSPs." Canadian Tax Journal 67 (2019): 309.

* presented by co-author

Corporate Finance, Financial Economics

Year Research title
2016 Ryerson SSHRC Institutional Grant, Ryerson University
2016 TRSM Research Development Grant, Ryerson University
2018 SSHRC Insight Development Grant (Co-Investigator)
Course code Course title
AFF 310 Managerial Finance
FIN 401 Managerial Finance II