Assistant Professor
Accounting
About
Biwen Zhang is an assistant professor of accounting at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. Her research examines how information is produced and used in capital and product markets, the incentives to distort such information, and the resulting economic implications. Her research has been published in the Journal of Accounting Research, and The Accounting Review. Zhang has received recognition from the Antitrust Writing Awards for her contributions to intellectual property research. At Berkeley, she teaches Financial Accounting to both MBA and undergraduate students.
Expertise and Research Interests
- Capital Markets
- Conflicts of Interest
- Financial Intermediaries
- Corporate Governance
- Biwen Zhang. Paving the Road to the Buy-Side. Journal of Accounting Research.
2025 - Christopher S. Armstrong, Yaniv Konchitchki, and Biwen Zhang. Digital Traffic, Financial Performance, and Stock Valuation. The Accounting Review.
2025
At Haas since 2020
- 2020–present, Assistant Professor, Accounting Group