Dr Ally Zhang

Lecturer in Finance

Research Overview

Ally is currently an Assistant Professor in Finance at Lancaster University Management School. She received her Ph.D. in financial economics with Summa Cum Laude from Swiss Finance Institute and University of Zürich. During her Ph.D, she was a visiting Doctoral scholar at LSE. Previously, she obtained her MPhil degree from University of New South Wales and Bachelor degree from Fudan University.

Ally’s research focuses on theoretical asset pricing, macro-finance, and financial intermediaries.

Her solo-authored papers have been accepted by top conferences such as SFS Cavalcade North America conference, AFA, AEA and European Econometrics winter meetings.

Society for Economic Dynamics (SED) Conference 2020
Oral presentation

SFS Cavalcade North America conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Invited Seminar Talk in Finance Department at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Invited talk

2020 North American Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society
Oral presentation

AEA 2020
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Invited Seminar Talk at University of Zurich
Invited talk

50th Annual Conference of the Money, Macro and Finance
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

EEA - ESEM 2018
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

European Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Swiss Finance Institute Research Day
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Annual Conference of the Swiss Society for Financial Market Research
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

EEA-ESEM
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

European Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society 2016
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Midwest Macro Meetings
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

17th Annual Conference of the Swiss Society for Financial Market Research
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

FMA European Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

50th Anniversary Meeting of the Eastern Finance Association
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Southwestern Finance Association 2014 Annual Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Institute for Banking & Finance Brown Bag Seminar
Invited talk

  • Asset Pricing and Financial Econometrics
  • Centre for Financial Econometrics, Asset Markets and Macroeconomic Policy