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Lu Zhang is an Associate Professor of Finance with tenure at Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. He specializes in asset pricing, applied theoretical and empirical, in connection with corporate finance, macroeconomics, and capital markets research in accounting. His research applies new classical macroeconomics to understand the driving forces behind the cross section of stock returns. Professor Zhang has been publishing in Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Review of Financial Studies. His article on "The value premium" was awarded a Smith-Breeden Prize for 2005 by American Finance Association and Journal of Finance. Since March 2005, he also has been a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (Asset Pricing Group). At Michigan, Professor Zhang teaches Derivative Securities for BBAs, Capital Markets and Investment Strategy for MBAs, and Empirical Methodology in Finance for PhDs. Before joining Michigan in 2006, he taught Investments and Applied Corporate Finance for MBAs and Advanced Topics in Capital Markets for PhDs for four years at University of Rochester's William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration. Professor Zhang earned a Ph.D. in finance in 2002 from The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania. He enjoys watching the Wolverines and reading history, politics, and organizational behavior.