Yen Teik Lee

Yen Teik Lee is a Senior Lecturer at NUS Business School. His areas of research are corporate finance, corporate innovation, financial intermediation, and financial innovation. Before joining NUS, he was an Assistant Professor of Finance at Asia School of Business and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (SUFE), a Senior Lecturer at Curtin Singapore, and a visiting scholar at both New York University Stern School of Business and Cambridge Judge Business School. He is the recipient of the Society of Financial Studies Finance Cavalcade Best Paper in Corporate Finance Award 2013 and SUFE Excellent Teachers Award 2015. His works have been featured on The Economist (blog), The Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog, and BBC World Service and published in the Journal of Corporate Finance and Journal of Fixed Income. Yen Teik received his Ph.D. in Business (Finance) from Singapore Management University.

Recognition & Awards

• Junior Faculty Teaching Competition - 2015
• The Best Paper in Corporate Finance, Society for Financial Studies Finance Cavalcade - 2013

Educational Qualifications

• Ph.D. Business (Finance), Singapore Management University, 2013
• M.Sc. Finance, Singapore Management University, 2008
• B.Sc. Accountancy (Hons), Nanyang Technological University, 2004

Academic Experience

• Assistant Professor of Finance, Asia School of Business, 2018 - 2020
• Senior Lecturer, Curtin Singapore, 2016 - 2018
• Assistant Professor of Finance, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, 2013 - 2016

Corporate Experience

• Research Fellow, Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics, 2013
• Research Associate, Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics, 2008 - 2009
• Business Unit Controller (Fixed Income), UBS Investment Bank, 2005 - 2006
• Assurance Associate, PricewaterhouseCoopers, 2004 - 2005

PUBLICATIONS

• Governance and Post-Repurchase Performance (with Jeremy Goh, SMU, Gary Caton, Montana State University, and Scott Linn, University of Oklahoma), Journal of Corporate Finance, Vol 39, 155-173, 2016.
• Are Bond Ratings Informative? Evidence from Regulatory Regime Changes? (with Ederington Louis, Oklahoma University, Jeremy Goh, SMU, and Lisa Yang, Montana State University), Journal of Fixed Income, Vol 29 (1), 6-19, 2019 (lead article).
• Problems with crisis intervention: When the government wants to restrain big banks but punishes small businesses instead (with Gary Caton, Montana State University (MSU), Ed Gamble, MSU, and Kelig Aujogue). Forthcoming at the Journal of Business Venturing Insights.