Accounting research IESE Business School
Jiamin Zhao
Ph.D. Candidate in Accounting
IESE Business School
I study how external stakeholders and emerging technologies shape firms' incentives to disclose and control information.
I examine how changes in the external information environment affect corporate disclosure, focusing on public activism, stakeholder interactions, and digital information access.
Research agenda
Selected Research
Job Market Paper Working paper
Public Activism and Labor-Related Corporate Disclosure
How does public labor activism near corporate headquarters shape labor-related disclosure in earnings calls?
Working paper
NGO Activism and the Supply of Corporate Information
How does NGO targeting change what managers discuss with capital markets?
AbstractWorking paper
How Firms Govern Automated Data Access: Evidence from Robots.txt Policies
How do firms govern automated access to information that remains publicly available?
AbstractIn the news
Media Coverage
HEC Paris June 2025
Young researchers converge at HEC Paris to rethink climate leadership
HEC Paris highlights my presentation on public activism and corporate disclosure at the Business Schools for Climate Leadership PhD Academy.
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Research across information environments
I combine archival empirical methods with large-scale textual analysis, computational data collection, and machine-learning techniques. I expect to complete my Ph.D. in 2027.