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Sangeun Ha

Tenure Track Assistant Professor

Subjects
Finance Working environment Environment ESG Companies Job market

Primary research areas

Em­pir­ic­al Cor­por­ate Fin­ance
Labor Fin­ance
Cli­mate Fin­ance
Cor­por­ate Gov­ernance

On the way to un­der­stand the re­la­tion­ship between cor­por­ate fin­ance and the wel­fare of so­ci­ety us­ing em­pir­ic­al meth­od­o­lo­gies...

In capitalist societies, our everyday lives are shaped by the flow of money through corporations. I study how the firms’ value-maximizing decisions are related to other stakeholders of society. How do firms adjust their financing or investment decisions in response to changes in incentives, regulations, and external market pressures? Are those decisions to maximize the value of shareholders? Do firms’ maximization of shareholder values positively or negatively affect the welfare of several stakeholders of society, including employees, consumers, philanthropic beneficiaries, and other citizens, via environmental protection?   

My papers have been honorably awarded the CRESSE – CPI and the CCIA Young Researcher Award in 2022, which was also published in the Journal of Financial Economics in 2025, and the Best Paper Award at the Cornell ESG Investing Research Conference 2023. My papers have been included in major economics and finance conferences, such as the American Economic Association, SFS Cavalcade, European Economic Association, and the European Association of Labour Economists, among others.