Richard (Ruichao) ZHU
Lecturer (Assistant Professor)
Research School of Accounting
Australian National University
Research interests:
Information Economics · ESG · Auditing · Real Effects
Contact
Room 3.21, CBE Building (26C), ANU College of Business and Economics
Canberra, Australia
Academic Appointments
- Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Research School of Accounting (July 2026–Present) - NEOMA Business School, Rouen, France
Assistant Professor, Department of Accounting, Control & Legal Affairs (Sep 2024–June 2026)
Publications
- How Does Product Market Competition Affect Disclosure of Management Forecasts: Evidence from China Imports (with Zhihong Chen, Charles Hsu). Journal of Accounting and Economics (UTD24, FT50, ABDC A*), 2026.
- How Does Audit Quality Affect Firm Innovation? Evidence from China (with Charles Hsu, Chaopeng Wu, Zehao Yan). Journal of Business Finance & Accounting (ABDC A*), 2025.
- Does Media Coverage Help Firms “Lobby” for Government Subsidies? Evidence from China (with Jin-hui Luo, Zeyue Huang). Asia Pacific Journal of Management (ABDC A), 2021.
- When Are Pay Gaps Good or Bad for Firm Performance? Evidence from China (with Jin-hui Luo, Yuangao Xiang). Management and Organization Review (ABDC A), 2020.
- Military Top Executives and Corporate Philanthropy: Evidence from China (with Jin-hui Luo, Yuangao Xiang). Asia Pacific Journal of Management (ABDC A), 2017.
Education
- Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong SAR
Ph.D. in Accounting
Committee: Charles Hsu (Chair), Zhihong Chen, Vidhan Goyal, Arthur Morris, George Yang
Selected Honors, Awards, and Grants
- Hong Kong PhD Fellowship (HK RGC, 2020–2024) — HK$1,300,000 total
- Redbird Academic Excellence Awards (HKUST, 2022, 2023) — HK$40,000 total
- Excellent Research Award (HKUST, 2020) — HK$40,000
- Postgraduate Studentship (HKUST, 2018, 2019) — HK$432,000 total
- University Research Travel Grant (HKUST, 2023, 2024) — HK$24,000 total
- Business School Research Travel Grant (HKUST, 2023) — HK$12,000
- FARS Doctoral Consortium Fellow (2021)
- MIT Asia Conference in Accounting Doctoral Consortium Fellow (2019)
- National Scholarship for Graduate Students (Ministry of Education of China, 2017) — CNY 20,000
Selected Conferences & Workshops
(*denotes presentations)
- AAA Annual Meeting (2023*, 2024*)
- EAA Annual Congress (2023*, 2026*)
- AFFI Annual Conference (2026*)
- EFMA Annual Meeting (2023*)
- HKUST Business School PhD Student Conference (2023*)
- HKUST Accounting Workshop (2021*, 2023* ×3)
- CUFE Doctoral Forum (2023*)
- MIT Asia Conference in Accounting (2019, 2023)
- HKUST Accounting Research Symposium (2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023)
- CUHK Accounting Research Conference (2021, 2022)
- FARS Midyear Meeting (2021)
Teaching
- Research School of Accounting, ANU
- Corporate Accounting (Master, Fall 2026)
- NEOMA Business School
- Cost Accounting (Master, Spring 2026)
- Sustainable Reporting (Master, Fall 2024)
- Financial Accounting (Undergraduate, Fall 2024)
- Management Accounting and Control (Undergraduate, Fall 2024)
- HKUST Business School
- Accounting, Business and Society (Undergraduate, Summer 2021)
- Graduate Teaching Assistant Certificate (2019)
Service & Engagement
Editorial
- Ad hoc reviewer: AAA Annual Meeting, Asia Pacific Journal of Management
Student Supervision
- CESEM Program: 2 undergraduate theses (NEOMA)
- GBBA Program: 8 undergraduate theses (NEOMA)
Technical Skills
- Programming: Stata · SAS · Python
- Languages: English (fluent) · Chinese (native) · French (beginner)