Sungjoung Kwon

Ph.D., Finance, Drexel University, 2020

M.S., Statistics, Michigan State University, 2014

M.B.A., Finance, Sogang University, 2010

B.S., Mathematics, Sogang University, 2006

 Entrepreneurial Finance, Venture Capital

Finance - incl Banking

Teaching

Corporate Finance, Entrepreneurial Finance, Fintech

Research

Corporate Finance, Entrepreneurial Finance, Financial Intermediation, Venture Capital, Mutual Funds

“Mutual fund investments in private firms” (with Michelle Lowry and Yiming Qian), Journal of Financial Economics, 136 (2), 407 – 443 (2020)

* by coauthor

Firms’ Transition to Green: Innovation versus Lobbying

2023 NFA Annual meeting
2023 FMCG Annual meeting

Corporate investments in startups: CVC vs. direct investment

2022 SFA Annual meeting*
2022 FMA Annual meeting
2022 SWFA Annual meeting*

Self-dealing in Venture Capital

2022 FMA Annual meeting
2021 EFMA Annual meeting
2021 SWFA Annual meeting

Inorganic growth in innovative firms: evidence from patent acquisitions

2020 AFA Ph.D. Student Poster Session
2019 SFA Annual meeting
2019 FMA Doctoral student consortium & Annual meeting

Mutual fund investments in private firms

2017 Norwegian School of Economics Conference*
2017 CICF Annual meeting*
2017 SFS Cavalcade North America*
2017 NYU Conference on “The Changing Role of Stock Markets in Capital Formation”*