Zhan Xintong

Finance

Add: Guoshun Road Siyuan Building Room 232, Siyuan Building

Tel: 25011068(TEL)

E-mail: xintongzhan@fudan.edu.cn

Research Field: Empirical Asset Pricing, Sustainable Finance, Empirical Corporate Finance

Website: https://xintongzhan.github.io/

Teacher information

Achievements in scientific research

Academic activities and community service

Academic Posts

2025.07—,Senior Research Fellow (Honorary),Lau Chor Tak Institute of Global Economics and Finance

2025.03—,Associate Editor,Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies

2024.01—,Editorial Board Member,Financial Analysts Journal

2023.09—,Fellow,Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER)

2023.07—,Research Fellow (Honorary),Lau Chor Tak Institute of Global Economics and Finance

2023.06—,Associate Editor,International Review of Finance

2023.02—,Editor,China Accounting and Finance Review

Academic Conferences

2024.08, European Finance Association (EFA) 2024 Annual Meeting, Bratislava

2024.07, The 2024 China International Confernece in Finance (CICF), Beijing

2024.01, American Finance Association (AFA) 2024 Annual Meeting, San Antonio

2023.10, Academic Network Conference PRI in Person 2023, Tokyo, Japan

2023.07, 2023 MIT Asia Conference in Accounting, Singapore

2023.07, The 2023 China International Confernece in Finance, Shanghai, China

2023.06, Alliane for Research on Corporate Sustainability 15th Annual Reearch Conference, Washington, DC, USA

2023.03, 2023 Consortium on Asset Management, Cambridge, England

2022.01, American Finance Association (AFA) 2022 Annual Meeting, Virtual Conference

2021.01, American Finance Association (AFA) 2021 Annual Meeting, Virtual Conference

2020.08, European Finance Association (EFA) 2020 Annual Meeting, Virtual Conference

2020.06, Western Finance Association (WFA) 2020 Annual Meeting, Virtual Conference

2020.05, The SFS Cavalcade North America 2020, Virtual Conference

2020.01, American Finance Association (AFA) 2020 Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA

2019.06, Western Finance Association (WFA) 2019 Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, USA

2017.01, American Finance Association (AFA) 2017 Annual Meeting, Chicago, USA

2016.08, European Finance Association (EFA) 2016 Annual Meeting, Oslo, Norway

2016.01, American Finance Association (AFA) 2016 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA

Journal Papers

1.	Jie Cao, Yi Li, Xintong Zhan, Weiming Zhang, and Linyu Zhou. 2025. Carbon emissions, mutual fund trading, and the liquidity of corporate bonds. Management Science forthcoming 1-28.

2.	Jie Cao, Jason C. Hsu, Linjia Song, Zhanbing Xiao, and Xintong Zhan. 2025. Smart beta, “smarter” flows. Journal of Empirical Finance 81 1-16.

3.	Jie (Jay) Cao, Michael Hertzel, Jie (Jessica) Xu, and Xintong (Eunice) Zhan. 2025. Options trading and corporate debt structure. Journal of Accounting and Public Policy 49 107274, 1-23.

4.	Jie Cao, Amit Goyal, Sai Ke, and Xintong Zhan. 2024. Options trading and stock price informativeness. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 59(4) 1516-1540.

5.	Jie Cao (Jay), Xintong Zhan (Eunice), Weiming Zhang (Elaine), and Yaojia Zhang (Zoe). 2023. The return predictability of carbon emissions: Evidence from Hong Kong and Singapore. Pacific-Basin Finance Journal 82 1-21.

6.	Jie Cao, Sheridan Titman, Xintong Zhan, and Weiming Zhang. 2023. ESG preference, institutional trading, and stock return patterns. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 58(5) 1843-1877.

7.	Jie (Jay) Cao, Aurelio Vasquez, Xiao Xiao, and Xintong (Eunice) Zhan. 2023. Why does volatility uncertainty predict equity option returns?. The Quarterly Journal of Finance 13(1) 1-35.

8.	Jie Cao, Bing Han, Linjia Song, and Xintong Zhan. 2023. Option price implied information and REIT returns. Journal of Empirical Finance 71 13-28.

9.	Jie Cao, Amit Goyal, Xiao Xiao, and Xintong Zhan. 2023. Implied volatility changes and corporate bond returns. Management Science 69(3) 1375-1397.

10.	Tao Shu, Xuan Tian, and Xintong Zhan. 2022. Patent quality, firm value, and investor underreaction: Evidence from patent examiner busyness. Journal of Financial Economics 143(3) 1043–1069.

11.	Xintong (Eunice) Zhan, Bing Han, Jie Cao, and Qing Tong. 2022. Option return predictability. The Review of Financial Studies 35(3) 1394–1442.

12.	Jie Cao, Tarun Chordia, and Xintong Zhan. 2021. The calendar effects of the idiosyncratic volatility puzzle: a tale of two days?. Management Science 67(12) 7866–7887.

13.	Xu Li, Chen Lin, and Xintong Zhan. 2019. Does change in the information environment affect financing choices?. Management Science 65(12) 5676–5696.

14.	Jie Cao, Hao Liang, and Xintong Zhan. 2019. Peer effects of corporate social responsibility. Management Science 65(12) 5487-5503.

15.	Si Li and Xintong Zhan. 2019. Product market threats and stock crash risk. Management Science 65(9) 4011–4031.

16.	Xintong Zhan and Yajing Wang. 2023. Forecasting Option Return. Tsinghua Financial Review (5) 97-98. (in Chinese)

Research Projects

2023.01—2026.12, Principal Investigator, ESG Performance and Options Market, National Natural Science Foundation of China

2020.01—2021.11, Principal Investigator, Sustainability or Return? The Impact of Sustainability Rating on the Flow-Performance Sensitivity of Mutual Funds, Hong Kong Research Grants Council, Early Career Scheme

2019.05—2021.12, Co-PI, ESG Preference and Market Efficiency, Geneva Institute for Wealth Management

2019.04—2020.12, Co-PI, ESG Preference and Market Efficiency, Paris–Dauphine House of Finance and Unigestion