Caroline J. Zhang

Caroline Jinglan Zhang

  jinglan_zhang@ucsb.edu

  2049 North Hall, UCSB

Welcome! I am a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, with research interests in Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Behavioral Finance, and the Economics of Education.

I study the impact of performance feedback on individual decision-making in both financial and educational contexts.

I have been teaching an upper-level undergrad course in Corporate Finance and Asset Pricing at UCSB since Fall 2023.


I am on the job market in the 2024-25 academic year! You can find my CV here.

Working Papers

The Feedback-Driven Disposition Effect: An Experiment [pdf]
Job Market Paper


Motivating Academic Success: The Role of Leaderboards in Shaping Student Study Behavior [pdf]
(Joint with Anna Jaskiewicz, Ruth Moralesa, and Dingyue (Kite) Liu)


Lying for Efficiency or Fairness? [pdf]
(Joint with Jaimie Lien and Jie Zheng)

Publications

Financial Cycle and Monetary Policy (Joint with Yulu Chen and Yong Ma) - Journal of Financial Research (in Chinese), Vol. 441, 2017.

Financial Cycle, Business Cycle and Monetary Policy: Evidence from Four Major Economies (Joint with Yong Ma) - International Journal of Finance and Economics, No. 4, 2016.

Financial Development, Environmental Quality and Economic Growth (Joint with Shushu Li and Yong Ma) - Sustainability, No. 7, 2015.

Teaching

Instructor of Record

UC Santa Barbara

Econ 134A: Financial Management (Corporate Finance and Asset Pricing)
Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Summer 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025(scheduled)

I was appointed as the Instructor of Record for this course based on my strong teaching performance as a Teaching Assistant across two quarters, where I earned an outstanding average student evaluation rating of 1.4 (on a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being the highest). Below are resources I've designed, including review slides for the midterm and final exams, as well as a collaborative document on TA section instructions with Xhulio Uruci.

[Midterm 1] [Midterm 2] [Final] [TA Section Notes]

Teaching Assistant

UC Santa Barbara

  • Econ 134A: Financial Management
  • Econ 130: Public Finance
  • Econ 140A: Intro to Econometrics
  • Econ 145A: Data Wrangling for Economists
  • Econ 1: Intro to Economics

Tsinghua University

  • Advanced Econometrics II (PhD)
  • Behavioral Economics
  • Intermediate Economics