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A/P Johan SULAEMAN

Director
Dean’s Chair and Associate Professor
NUS Business School, Dept of Finance
Biography

Johan SULAEMAN is the Director of the Sustainable and Green Finance Institute at NUS (SGFIN). He is a Dean’s Chair and an Associate Professor in the Department of Finance at the NUS Business School. He recently served as the founding Academic Director of the NUS MSc (Finance) Programme and as the Research Director of the Centre for Asset Management Research & Investments (CAMRI). He is a Scientist at the AIDF (Asian Institute of Digital Finance), a Fellow of the ABFER (Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research), a Research Member of the ECGI (European Corporate Governance Institute), and has served on the editorial boards of international finance and economics journals.

He teaches in various educational programs, including executive education, in courses involving core financial concepts, portfolio theory, equity, fixed income, options, futures, investment strategies, and risk management. His current research interests focus on sustainability and impact measurement in the context of the financial sector, as well as the effects of geographic factors on various economic outcomes. He also works on research questions related to the effects of ownership structure on corporate decisions, the role of various economic agents in disturbing and maintaining market efficiency, and discriminations in labor markets and the financial and corporate sectors.

His research appears in top economics and business journals, including the American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Management Science. His papers have also been presented at leading conferences, including the American Finance Association and Western Finance Association annual meetings, and the NBER Summer Institute. He obtained his PhD in Finance from University of Texas at Austin (McCombs).

Research Focus
  • Geographic / Local Effects On Economic Decisions And OutcomesRole Or Institutional Investors In Corporate Decisions And Markets Outcomes
  • Mutual Funds And Other Institutional Investors
  • Equity Analysts
  • Discrimination In The Labor Market
  • Investments
  • Portfolio Management
  • Options And Futures
  • Empirical Asset Pricing
  • Corporate Finance
Publications

Select Recent Publications

  1. Liu, C., Shu, T., Sulaeman, J., Shu, T., Yeung, P.E. (2023)
    Life is Too Short? Bereaved Managers and Investment Decisions
    Review of Finance, Review of Finance, 27,4,1373-1421
    https://doi.org/10.1093/rof/rfac067
  2. Gefen, O., Reeb, D., & Sulaeman, J. (2023)
    Startups’ demand for accounting expertise: Evidence from a randomized field experiment
    Review of Accounting Studies
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s11142-023-09775-8
  3. Adhikari, B. K., Cicero, D. C., & Sulaeman, J. (2020)
    Does local capital supply matter for public firms’ Capital Structures?
    Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Volume 56 (5), Pages 1809–1843.
    https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022109020000423
  4. Wei, K. D., Sulaeman, J. (2019).
    Sell-Side Analysts and Stock Mispricing: Evidence from Mutual Fund Flow-Driven Trading Pressure
    https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2018.3073
  5. Nofsinger, J. R., Sulaeman, J., & Varma, A. (2019)
    Institutional Investors and corporate social responsibility.
    Journal of Corporate Finance, Volume 58, Pages 700–725.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2019.07.012
  6. Parsons, C. A., Sulaeman, J., & Titman, S. (2018)
    The geography of financial misconduct
    The Journal of Finance, 73(5), 2087-2137.
    https://doi.org/10.1111/jofi.12704
  7. Bernile, G., Kumar, A., & Sulaeman, J. (2015)
    Home away from home: Geography of information and local investors.
    The Review of Financial Studies, 28 (7), 2009–2049.
    https://doi.org/10.1093/rfs/hhv004
  8. Sulaeman, J. (2014)
    Do local investors know more? evidence from mutual fund location and Investments
    Quarterly Journal of Finance, 04 (02), 1450010.
    https://doi.org/10.1142/s2010139214500104
  9. Shu, T., Sulaeman, J., & Yeung, P. E. (2012)
    Local religious beliefs and mutual fund risk-taking behaviors.
    Management Science, 58 (10), 1779–1796.
    https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.1120.1525
  10. Altı, A., & Sulaeman, J. (2012)
    When do high stock returns trigger equity issues?
    Journal of Financial Economics, 103 (1), 61–87.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2011.08.007
  11. Parsons, C. A., Sulaeman, J., Yates, M. C., & Hamermesh, D. S. (2011)
    Strike Three: Discrimination, incentives, and evaluation
    American Economic Review, 101 (4), 1410–1435.
    https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.101.4.1410

View full list of publications

  1. Parsons, C., Sulaeman, J., Titman, S. (2014)
    Swimming Upstream: Struggling Firms in Corrupt Cities
    CGN: Corporate Borrowing
    https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2526585
  2. Sulaeman, J., & Wei, C. (2013).
    Institutional Presence. SSRN Electronic Journal.
    https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2373506