Olga Khalina

Olga Khalina is a Lecturer and PhD Candidate in the Department of Business Economics at the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE), Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her research focuses on executive compensation narratives, corporate governance, and financial analysis. Affiliated since 2007, she examines how disclosure practices in Compensation Discussion & Analysis (CD&A) relate to corporate characteristics, shareholder pressure, and governance structures. Her work also explores relative performance targets in stock option plans and their impact on firm performance and earnings management.

Her academic supervisors include Prof. Peter Roosenboom (Entrepreneurial Finance) and Prof. Gerard Mertens (Financial Analysis). She is based at the Erasmus Accounting Research Group, with an office at E1-43, Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam.

• Key Research Areas: Executive Pay Transparency, Agency Theory, Institutional Shareholder Influence
• Methodological Focus: Analysis of CD&A disclosures and relative performance metrics