Sungjoung Kwon
Title
Assistant Professor of Finance
Office
Mike Ilitch School of Business
2771 Woodward Avenue
Room 377
Detroit, MI 48201
Academic Programs
- Entrepreneurship
- Finance
Sungjoung Kwon
Biography
Assistant Professor of Finance, 2021 – Present
Instructor of Finance, Aug. 2020 – Dec. 2020
Education
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
Expertise
Entrepreneurial Finance, Venture Capital
AACSB specialty
Finance - incl BankingResearch and teaching interests
Teaching
Corporate Finance, Entrepreneurial Finance, Fintech
Research
Corporate Finance, Entrepreneurial Finance, Financial Intermediation, Venture Capital, Mutual Funds
Publications
“Mutual fund investments in private firms” (with Michelle Lowry and Yiming Qian), Journal of Financial Economics, 136 (2), 407 – 443 (2020)
Presentations
* 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”*
Courses taught by Sungjoung Kwon
Fall Term 2024 (future)
Winter Term 2024 (current)
Fall Term 2023
Winter Term 2023
Fall Term 2022
- FIN3290 - Business Finance
- FIN5200 - Startup Funding and Profitability
- FIN7200 - Startup Financing and Profitability
