NBER profile: Lu Zhang.

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Lu Zhang is a Research Associate in the NBER's Program on Asset Pricing and the Dean's Distinguished Chair in Finance and Professor of Finance at The Ohio State University. He is also an Associate Editor for the Journal of Financial Economics, and a co-founder (and President in 2013) of the Macro Finance Society, a newly established academic society devoted to advancing and disseminating high-quality research at the intersection of financial economics and macroeconomics. He received a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Pennsylvania in 2002. Prior to joining Ohio State in 2010, he taught at the University of Rochester (2002-6) and the University of Michigan (2006-10).

Zhang's research focuses on asset pricing and its connections to macroeconomics, corporate finance, labor economics, and accounting. His recent work explores the implications of the...