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Vidhan K. GOYAL, PhD
Professor of Finance
 

 

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
 


MAILING ADDRESS :

Department of Finance,
HKUST Business School 
Clear Water Bay, HONG KONG 

TEL: (852) 2358 7678
FAX: (852) 2358 1749
Email: goyal "at" ust.hk

EDUCATION :

University of Pittsburgh

 

PhD, Finance, 1995

University of Delhi, New Delhi, India

 

Faculty of Management Studies, Master of Business Administration, 1986

 

Delhi College of Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics and Telecommunications), 1984

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE :

    HKUST Business School, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

     

    Professor of Finance, July 2008 - present

     

    Associate Professor of Finance, July 2002 - June 2008

     

    Assistant Professor of Finance, July 1995 - June 2002

PUBLICATIONS :

"Debt Maturity and Asymmetric Information: Evidence from Default Risk Changes" (with Wei Wang), 2011, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Forthcoming.

 "Capital Market Access and Financing of Private Firms" (with Alessandro Nova and Laura Zanetti), 2011, International Review of Finance 11, 155-179.

"Corporate Governance and Stock Market Liberalization" (with Bae, Kee-Hong), 2010, Journal of Corporate Finance 16, 609-621 (lead article).

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Received Best Paper in International Finance Award at the FMA meetings, Reno, Nevada, 2009

- Received Samsung Securities Co. Ltd Outstanding Paper Award at the 4th Annual Conference on Asia-Pacific Financial Markets, Seoul, December 2009.

"Capital Structure Decisions: Which Factors are Reliably Important?" (with Murray Z. Frank), Financial Management 38, 1-37.

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NTU International Finance Conference Best Paper Award, (Lead article), Taiwan, 2004

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Top 3 downloaded article in Financial Management (- April 2010)

"Creditor Rights, Enforcement and Bank Loans" (with Kee-Hong Bae), 2009,  Journal of Finance, 64, 823-860.

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Abstracted in the Finance Research: Interest Bearing Notes, World Bank Newsletter 15.

"Tradeoff and Pecking Order Theories of Debt" (with Murray Z. Frank), 2008.  In Espen Eckbo (editor) The Handbook of Empirical Corporate Finance, Elsevier Science, Chapter 12, 135-197.

"Investment opportunity set and its proxy variable" (with Tim Adam), 2008, Journal of Financial Research, 31, 41-63.

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Abstracted in the MichiganMail, University of Michigan Business School.

"On the patterns and wealth effects of vertical mergers" (with Joseph P.H. Fan), 2006, Journal of Business, 79, 877-902.

"Market discipline of bank risk: Evidence from subordinated debt contracts" 2005, Journal of Financial Intermediation, 14, 318-350.

"The effect of market conditions on capital structure adjustment" (with Murray Z. Frank), 2004, Finance Research Letters 1, 47-55.

"Asset price shocks, financial constraints, and investment: Evidence from Japan" (with Takeshi Yamada), 2004, Journal of Business 77, 175-199.

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Abstracted in the NBER Report

"Testing the pecking order theory of capital structure" (with Murray Frank), 2003, Journal of Financial Economics 67, 217-248.

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2003 Jensen Prize for the Best Paper Published in the Journal of Financial Economics in Areas of Corporate Finance and Organizations (Second Place Winner)

"Growth opportunities and corporate debt policy: the case of the U.S. defense industry" (with Kenneth Lehn and Stanko Racic), 2002, Journal of Financial Economics 64, 35-59.

"Board Leadership Structure and Chief Executive Turnover" (with Chul Park), 2002, Journal of Corporate Finance 8, 49-66.

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Abridged in the "Patterson Report: The link between corporate governance and performance" published by The Corporate Library.

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Abridged in the "Chief Executive" December 2002, Vol. 184.

"Bank Monitoring, Liquidity Risk and the Maturity Structure of Japanese Corporate Debt Issues" (with Jun Cai and Yan-Leung Cheung), 1999, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal 7, 229-250.

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Winner of the HSBC Asset Management Hong Kong Competitive Research Award at the 1998 Pacific Basin Finance Conference.

"A Corporate Bond Innovation of the 90s: The Clawback Provision in the High Yield Debt" (with N. Gollapudi and J. Ogden), 1998 , Journal of Corporate Finance 4, 301-320.

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Lead Article

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Abridged in the Bowne Review for CFOs and Investment Bankers, 1999.

"The Ex-Date Impact of Rights Offerings: The Evidence from Firms Listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange" (with C. Y. Hwang, N. Jayaraman and K. Shastri), 1994, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal 2, 277-291.

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Received Fifth Annual PACAP Finance Conference Award in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, June 1993.


PRACTITIONER ARTICLES

Goyal, Vidhan K., 2009. Corporate Board Structures, QFinance,  Bloomsbury, UK.


WORKING PAPERS

  • Profits and capital structure (with Murray Frank, University of Minnesota)
  • Corporate leverage adjustment: How much do managers really matter? (with Murray Frank, University of Minnesota)
  • The differential effects of classified board on firm value (with Seoungpil Ahn, NUS and Keshab Shreshta, NTU)
  • Underwriter investor relations and information spillovers (with Lewis Tam, University of Macau)


HONORS :

Research Awards

    Jensen Prize for the Best Paper Published in the Journal of Financial Economics in the Areas of Corporate Finance and Organizations 2003 (Second Place Winner), joint with Murray Z. Frank.

    Best Paper Award at the 2004 NTU International Conference on Finance, December 2004.

    HSBC Asset Management Hong Kong Competitive Research Award at the 1998 Pacific Basin Finance Conference.

    PACAP Research Fellow at the Sandra Ann Morsilli Pacific-Basin Capital Markets Research Center, 1998-1999.

    Fifth Annual PACAP Finance Conference Award, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, June 1993.

Teaching Awards

Winner of the Michael Gale Medal  for Distinguished Teaching, 2003, the highest honor awarded to a single faculty in the university.

Franklin Prize for Teaching Excellence, 2006.

Franklin Prize for Teaching Excellence, 2001.

Runner-up: Franklin Prize for Teaching Excellence, 2005.

Runner up: Franklin Prize for Teaching Excellence, 2004.

Best MBA Core Teacher Award, 2005.

Best MBA Core Teacher Award, 2004.

Dean’s Recognition of Excellence in Teaching, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002. 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006.

Academic Honors

Member of Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society, University of Pittsburgh Chapter.

Founding member, Korea Economics Association, and the Center for Experimental Business Research (cEBR).

First division with distinction in MBA; Ranked 2nd in the University of Delhi (1986). First division with distinction in Engineering; Ranked 5th in the University of Delhi.