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Zhan (Jan) Jiang

Assistant Professor
Finance and Managerial Economics Department

Education

PhD in Finance, University of Iowa
MS in Mechanical Engineering, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
BS in Mechanical Engineering, Tongji University, China

Research Interests

• Mergers and acquisitions
• Leveraged buyout
• Corporate governance
• Executive compensation

Current Teaching

• Fall 2008: MGF 405 Advanced corporate finance

Works in Progress

• The Changes in CEO Wealth around Large Investments: A Look at CEO Incentives to Increase Firm Size (with Yilei Zhang)
• The Effect of Change-in-Control Covenants on Takeovers: Evidence from Leveraged Buyouts (with Matt Billett and Erik Lie)

Awards

• Presidential fellowship and Ponder scholarship, Iowa

Professional Affiliations

• American Finance Association
• Financial Management Association