About
Dan is Associate Professor of Finance at Oslo Business School (Oslomet) and Research Associate at Centre for Corporate Governance Research (BI). She received her Ph.D. in Finance from Erasmus University Rotterdam and was a visiting scholar at NYU Stern School of Business. Prior to joining OsloMet, she worked at the Department of Finance at BI Norwegian Business School.
Her research interests span household finance, corporate finance, and corporate governance. Her work has been published in leading journals such as Review of Finance, Journal of Corporate Finance, and International Business Review. She has received research funding from Finansmarkedsfondet, the Research Council of Norway, and the Centre for Corporate Governance Research.
Her research on executive compensation was featured in the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and received the Highly Commended Paper Award at the International Conference on Corporate Governance. She also serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of Corporate Governance Insights.
Research groups
Research projects
Completed research projects
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CEOs Personal Risk Attitudes and Corporate Financing and Investment
This project studies to what extent firm policies are affected by managers’ personal assets allocation, asset allocation, and founders' opportunity cost.
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Heterogeneous Investors and Asset Allocations
In this project, we study how Norwegian households respond to monetary policy changes.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Seip, Knut Lehre
;
Zhang, Dan
(2025).
A tale of the two recessions 2008 and 2020: What do the Taylor rule, the Phillips curve and Okun's law tell?.
Journal of Policy Modeling.
Vol. 47.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpolmod.2025.02.001
Seip, Knut Lehre
;
Zhang, Dan
(2024).
Scoring Six Detrending Methods on Timing, Lead-Lag Relations, and Cycle Periods: An Empirical Study of US and UK Recessions 1977–2020.
Computational Economics.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10614-024-10548-x
Zilja, Flladina; Benito, Gabriel R G; Boustanifar, Hamid;
Zhang, Dan
(2023).
CEO wealth and cross-border acquisitions by SMEs.
International Business Review.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2023.102192
Carpena, Fenella
; Swinkels, Laurens;
Zhang, Dan
(2023).
The effects of COVID-19 policies on consumer spending in Norway.
Contemporary economic policy.
Vol. 42.
https://doi.org/10.1111/coep.12627
Sagbakken, Siri Tronslien;
Zhang, Dan
(2022).
European sin stocks.
Journal of Asset Management.
https://doi.org/10.1057/s41260-021-00247-9
Zhang, Danielle
; Erland, Marie; Kaiser, Maria Holm
(2022).
The Impact of COVID-19 on the Norwegian Stock Market.
Beta – Scandinavian Journal of Business Research.
Vol. 36.
https://doi.org/10.18261/beta.36.1.1
Seip, Knut Lehre
;
Zhang, Dan
(2022).
A High-Resolution Lead-Lag Analysis of US GDP, Employment, and Unemployment 1977–2021: Okun’s Law and the Puzzle of Jobless Recovery.
Economies.
Vol. 10.
https://doi.org/10.3390/economies10100260
Seip, Knut Lehre
;
Zhang, Dan
(2021).
The GDP, the US treasury yield and the federal funds rate: who follows whom, when and why?.
Journal of Financial Economic Policy.
https://doi.org/10.1108/JFEP-11-2020-0241
Seip, Knut Lehre
;
Zhang, Dan
(2021).
The yield curve as a leading indicator: Accuracy and timing of a parsimonious forecasting model.
Forecasting.
Vol. 3.
https://doi.org/10.3390/forecast3020025
Loureiro, Gilberto; Makhija, Anil;
Zhang, Dan
(2020).
One dollar CEOs.
Journal of Business Research.
Vol. 109.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.11.086
