Ke Yang

Professor Yang joined the Perella Department of Finance at Lehigh University in 2008. Her research and teaching interests include corporate finance, mergers, acquisitions, and restructurings, corporate governance, agency issues, capital structure, and investments.

Education

• University of Iowa, Ph.D.
• University of Nebraska-Omaha, M.A.
• Henan University of Science and Technology, B.S.

Research Interests

• Corporate Finance
• Mergers; Acquisitions; and Restructurings
• Corporate Governance
• Agency Issues
• Capital Structure

• “The effect of inter-firm managerial social ties on alliance formation: How poorly embedded firms overcome network disadvantages”, (Lead author) with Jianjun Zhu and Michael D. Santoro, 2021, British Journal of Management, forthcoming. 
• "Examining the Effects of Interfirm Managerial Social Ties on IT Components Diversity: An Agency Perspective", with Ling Xue and Yuliang Yao, 2018, MIS Quarterly, Vol. 42(2), 679-694.
• “Bond tender offers in mergers and acquisitions”, with Matthew Billett, 2016, Journal of Corporate Finance, Vol. 40, 128-141.
• “The price of street friends: Social Networks, informed trading, and shareholder costs”, with Jie Cai and Ralph Walkling, 2016, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol. 51(3), 801-837.
• "Social ties and IPO outcomes," with John W. Cooney, Leonardo, Madureira, and Ajai K. Singh, 2015, Journal of Corporate Finance, , Vol. 33, 129-146.
• "The role of investment banker directors in M&A: Can experts help?", with Qianqian Huang, Feng Jiang, and Erik Lie, 2014, Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 112 (2), 269-286.
• "Are small firms less vulnerable to overpriced stock offers?" with Anand M. Vijh, 2013, Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 110 (1), 61-86.
• "CFO/CEO-board social ties, Sarbanes-Oxley, and earnings management", with Gopal V. Krishnan, K.K. Raman and Wei Yu, 2011,  Accounting Horizons, Vol.25 (3), 537-557.

Working Papers

• "The acquisition performance of S&P 500 firms", with Anand M. Vijh.