Charlotte Ostergaard

I am educated at Brown University (M.A., Ph.D. in Economics) and the University of Copenhagen (B.A. in Economics) and work mainly in the areas of corporate governance, entrepreneurship, family firms, and banking.  

I have studied the real effects of bank shocks and bank market integration on outcome variables such as bank lending to small businesses, firms' investment and cash management, as well as inter-regional risk sharing.  I have also done work on shareholder activism, on how social capital sustain the viability of the savings bank organizational form, and on corporate governance in early Norwegian corporations at the turn of the 20th century. Currently, I'm working with administrative data on modern-day family- and owner-managed firms. My work has been published in the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, the Review of Finance, and the Journal of Political Economy, among others. 

I am a research associate at the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), the HKU Jockey Club Enterprise Sustainability Global Research Institute, the Center for Corporate Governance Research (CCGR) at BI Norwegian Business School, the Center for Owner-Managed Firms (CEV) at CBS, and a research fellow at the Danish Finance Institute (DFI).  I'm also a steering committee member of the Nordic Initiative for Corporate Economics (NICE).