Academic Advisory Board Members

Biography

Prof Kang is Canon Professor/Distinguished Professor of Finance at Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University (NTU). He is head of the division of banking and finance and former founding executive director of the Insurance Risk and Finance Research Centre at NBS. Prior to joining NTU, Dr. Kang was the MSU Federal Credit Union Endowed Chair in Financial Institutions and Investments at Michigan State University. His areas of research expertise include mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, ESG, capital raising, capital structure, emerging financial markets, international finance, and banking. His research has been published in leading finance, economics, and other business journals, including Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, American Economic Review, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Business, Accounting Review, Journal of International Business Studies, and Pacific-Basin Finance Journal. He currently serves as an associate editor of Financial Management, Japan and the World Economy, and Journal of Financial Perspectives, and an editorial review board member of Journal of International Business Studies. He is also a senior fellow and a member of executive council of the Asia Bureau of Finance and Economics Research, a research fellow of the Asian Institute of Corporate Governance, and a member of World Economic Forum Expert Network, and was a co-editor of Pacific-Basin Finance Journal from 2006 to 2022. Dr. Kang received his Ph.D. in finance from the Ohio State University, his master of science in finance from the Iowa State University, and his bachelor's degree in business administration from the Korea University.

Selected Publications

1. "The International Market for Corporate Control: Mergers and Acquisitions of U.S Firms by Japanese Firms," Journal of Financial Economics 34 (1993), 345-371.
2. "Firm Performance, Corporate Governance, and Top Executive Turnover in Japan," (with Anil Shivdasani), Journal of Financial Economics 38 (1995), 29-58.
3. "An Analysis of the Wealth Effects of Japanese Offshore Dollar-Denominated Convertible and Warrant Bond Issues," (with Yong C. Kim, Kyung J. Park, and Rene M. Stulz), Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 30 (1995), 257-270.