Rate My Professor Daniel Cahill

Dr. Daniel Cahill serves as a Lecturer in the Finance discipline within the Department of Accounting and Finance at the University of Western Australia Business School. He obtained his Bachelor of Commerce with Honours from The University of Western Australia, awarded on 1 December 2015. Cahill completed his PhD in finance, with a focus on investor attention and financial technology. In his teaching role, he delivers courses across first-year, third-year, and honours-level undergraduate finance subjects. He also holds the position of Deputy Director of the Rosemarie Nathanson Financial Markets Trading Room, supporting hands-on financial markets education and research infrastructure.

Cahill's academic interests centre on market and media sentiment, financial technology, and investor attention, including retail investor behaviour in financial markets. His scholarship appears in leading international journals, such as the Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Pacific Basin Finance Journal, Australian Journal of Management, and Finance Research Letters. Key publications include 'Media and social media sentiment and CEO pay cuts' (Journal of Accounting Literature, 2026, co-authored with Z. Liu and T. Santoso), 'Technical talk in bitcoin and equity' (British Accounting Review, 2026, accepted, with Z. Liu and L.A. Smales), 'Investigating proxies for retail investor attention in financial markets' (Accounting and Finance, 2025, with F. Liu and L. Smales), 'The COVID-19 pandemic: How important is face-to-face interaction for information dissemination?' (Global Finance Journal, 2022, with C. Ho and J. Yang), and his doctoral thesis 'I only pay attention to interesting things…and that’s a problem: Investor attention in financial markets' (2022). With a total of 17 research outputs encompassing nine articles, six working papers, one specialist publication article, and his thesis, Cahill contributes to advancements in sentiment analysis, investor decision-making processes, and the intersection of technology and finance.