井上 光太郎 (Kotaro Inoue)

 
 

Kotaro Inoue

Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Research Area:
Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance

Current Research Topics:
Law and Finance, M&A, Corporate Restructuring, CEO and Board of Directors, Shareholder Activism, Capital Structure, Asian Capital Market

Biography:
Kotaro Inoue, a Professor of Finance at Tokyo Institute of Technology, holds an undergraduate degree from University of Tokyo, MBA from Massachusetts Institute Technology, and a Ph.D. from Tsukuba University.
Kotaro has worked on corporate finance, corporate governance, law and finance, behavioral finance. He is the author of several books related to M&A or governance, such as the prize-winning book “M&A and Stock Prices” (in Japanese, 2006); and has published research results exemplified by papers such as “Corporate Restructuring in Japan: Who Monitors the Monitor?” (Journal of Banking and Finance, 2008) and “Post-restructuring performance in Japan,” (Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2010). Kotaro has served as a board member of Association of Behavioral Economics and Finance (2009-2011) and a board member of Asian Finance Association from 2012. He served as a Director at KPMG Corporate Finance for five years until 2003, in charge of M&A transactions and Corporate Restructuring. He served as an Associate Professor of Finance at Nagoya City University (2003-2007) and Keio University Business School (2007-2012).

Current Working Papers:
Link to SSRN Page
■http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=361885
■http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1719378