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Dayin Zhang

Dayin Zhang
Assistant Professor | Real Estate and Urban Land Economics
Grainger Hall

Biography

Dayin Zhang joined the Wisconsin School of Business in August 2020 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Real Estate and Urban Land Economics. His research interests include financial intermediation, real estate finance, and macroeconomics.

Professor Zhang earned his Ph.D. in Finance and Real Estate at the Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley. His dissertation was awarded honorable mention of the Homer Hoyt Doctoral Dissertation Award, and CES Gregory Chow Best Paper Award.

Research

Selected Published Journal Articles

Zhang, D. & Phalippou, L. (2023). The Cost of Mass Gatherings During a Pandemic Social Science & Medicine – Population Health

Zhang, D. & Zhang, C. & Breece, J. (2011). Financial crisis, monetary policy, and stock market volatility in China Annals of Economics and Finance

Presentations

AEA Annual Meeting (2024) Does Political Power Concentration Kill Private Investment? Evidence from China

AEA Annual Meeting (2024) Imperfect Flood Insurance Enforcement and Business Misallocation

PSU-FRB Conference on Frictions in Real Estate and Infrastructure Investment (2023) The Importance of Immigrant Workers for American Homebuilding

2023 FMA Annual Meeting (2023) Mortgage Lenders’ Diversity Policies and Mortgage Lending to Minorities

FHLBanks Congressional Staff Briefing (2023) Government-Sponsored Wholesale Funding and the Industrial Organization of Bank Lending

2023 Summer Real Estate Research Symposium (Pre-WFA) (2023) How Do Labor Shortages Affect Residential Construction and Housing Affordability?

SFS Cavalcade North America 2023 (2023) Flood Risk, Insurance and Business Relocation

FHLBanks Directors Conference (2023) Government-Sponsored Wholesale Funding and the Industrial Organization of Bank Lending

Federal Reserve-Dallas Research Seminar (2023) Imperfect Flood Insurance Enforcement and Business Misallocation

Freddie Mac Research Seminar (2023) Flood Risk, Insurance and Business Relocation

ASSA-AREUEA (2023) How Detrimental is the Unrelieved Debt During the Pandemic? The Case of Commercial Mortgages

FHFA Research Seminar (2022) Government-Sponsored Wholesale Funding and the Industrial Organization of Bank Lending

Teaching

Undergraduate Courses

Real Estate Finance (RES 410), Spring 2023. Download Syllabus
Fundamentals of real estate finance and investment. Qualitative and quantitative characteristics of commercial real estate. Developing and analyzing commercial property cash flow projections. Introduction to three approaches to valuation with emphasis on investing in commercial real estate. In-depth exposure to debt and equity investor returns.

Graduate Courses

Real Estate Research Seminar (RES 978), Fall 2022. Download Syllabus
Explore cutting-edge research on urban economics and real estate being conducted across different universities. Invited speakers will describe current or past research, identify challenges involved in their work, and highlight research conceptualization, approaches, methods, and/or data analysis, to better understand how to execute a research project.