Danielle Zhang

Danielle Zhang serves as Associate Professor of Finance at Oslo Business School within the Faculty of Social Sciences at Oslo Metropolitan University. She maintains an office at Pilestredet 35, 0166 Oslo (PI535) and can be contacted via danielle.zhang@oslomet.no. Prior to joining Oslomet, she spent six years at BI Norwegian Business School.

Her academic credentials include:

• Ph.D. in Finance from Erasmus University Rotterdam
• Visiting Ph.D. scholar at NYU Stern School of Business

Zhang's research centers on empirical corporate finance, executive compensation, and corporate governance, with extensions into asset allocation, monetary policy impacts, and crisis-driven behavioral shifts. She investigates how managerial risk preferences shape corporate decisions and how heterogeneous investors adapt to economic fluctuations, particularly through the lens of Norwegian household responses to policy changes.

Her publication portfolio reveals strong interdisciplinary trends across macroeconomics, corporate finance, and financial markets. Recent work analyzes business cycles using high-resolution lead-lag techniques, examines pandemic impacts on consumer behavior and stock markets, explores CEO compensation anomalies like 'one dollar CEOs,' and investigates yield curve forecasting applications. Methodologically, she combines empirical analysis with real-world data from US, UK, and Norwegian contexts.

While specific student advisement details are unavailable, Zhang leads the ongoing 'Heterogeneous Investors and Asset Allocations' project studying household responses to monetary policy, and completed 'CEOs Personal Risk Attitudes' research on managerial asset allocation's corporate impacts. She actively collaborates with researchers including Knut Lehre Seip and Hamid Boustanifar.

Zhang operates within Oslo Business School's Finance and Accounting research group, participating in seminar series at institutions like Norges Bank and NTNU. Her dissemination includes 33 presentations and SSRN working papers exploring personal finance spillovers into corporate decision-making.