Yonsei Sangnam Institute of Management

EDUCATION

1990 Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania (Wharton School) Ph.D. in FInance 
1984 MBA State University of New York at Buffalo
1980 B.A. Yonsei University, Law

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Professor, School of Business, Yonsei University,1999-present
Associate Professor, School of Business, Yonsei University,1994-1999 
Assistant Professor, School of Business, Yonsei University,1991-1994
Yamaichi endowed Assistant Professor, University of Tsukuba, 1990-1991

TEACHING INTERESTS

Financial Management
Corporate Finance
International Finance

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Corporate Finance
Capital Markets
Asset Management
Behavioral Finance

SELECTED PUBLICATION

Yon, K. and S. Park., 2002, An Empirical Evidence on the Uniform Lock-up System in KOSDAQ, Journal of Korean Securities Association 31, 323-364.

Yon, K. and S. Park. 2006, The Influence of Foreign Investments in Korean Stocks on the Korean Economy, Korean Journal of Business Administration, 35(6): 1885-1912.

Park, S. and K. Yon, 2009, The Effect of Corporate Governance on the Level of a Firm's Cash Holdings, Asian Review of Financial Research, 22.2, 1-36.

Yon, K. and S. Park, 2009, The Effect of Underwriters' Reputations on the IPO Pricing Process: Price Discovery Ability vs. Bargaining Power, Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies, Vol.38 no.4, 2009, 611-656.

Park, S. and K. Yon, 2009, The Effect of Agency Problem on the Value of Cash Holdings, The Korean Journal of Financial Management. 26.4, 1-34.

Yon, K. and H. Kim, 2013, Impact of Voluntary Disclosures on Information Effects of Investor Relations Announcements, Korean Journal of Financial Studies, 42.1, 79-103.

Kim, H. and K. Yon, 2014, The Management Monitoring Effect of Institutional Investors' No Vote, Korean Journal of Financial Studies, 43.1, 1-22.

Lee, Y and K. Yon, 2014, Efficiency and Tunneling of Intra-group Transactions Between Korean Large Business Groups and Small & Medium Business Groups, Asian Review of Financial Research, 27.4, 567-601.

Jin, S. and K. Yon, 2015, Comparing Company Performance by Counterparty Characteristics in Internal Product Transactions of the Business Group, Korean Management Review, 44.1, 367-395.

Jin, S. and K. Yon, 2015,  A Study on the Effectiveness of Regulating Intra-group Transaction of Large Business Groups, Korean Journal of Financial Studies, 44.1, 1-24.

Yon, K. and H. Kim, 2015, Institutional and Foreign Investors’ Sale of a Portion of Their Stocks As a “Kick-in-th-Pants” for Management,  Asian Review of Financial Research, 28.4 , 677-706.

Lee, Y, H. Kim, K. Yon, 2017, The Effectiveness of ‘No’ Voting Right of Institutional Investors based on Improvement of Independence of the Board of Director, Korean Journal of Financial Studies, 46.1, 61-96.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND AWARDS

Vice president, Korean Securities Association, 2005-2006
Vice president, Korean Financial Management Association, 2005-2006
Vice president, Korean Finance Association, 2006 
President, Korean Futures & Options Association, 2007
Chief Editor, Korean Financial Consumer Association, 2010-2011
Vice President, Korean Academic Society of Business Administration, 2013
President, Korean Financial Association, 2014