Professional Career
2021-Present: Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (울산과학기술원), Associate Professor
(2025-2026: The University of Hong Kong, Visiting Professor)
2019-2021: Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (울산과학기술원), Assistant Professor
2013-2019: The University of Hong Kong (홍콩대), Assistant Professor
1998-2011: The Financial Supervisory Service (금융감독원), Senior Assocaite
1994-1998: The Bank of Korea, Economist
External Services
2024-2026 과학기술인공제회 리스크관리위원회 위원
2024-2025 한국경영학회 ESG위원회 위원
2023-2025 금융위원회 금융산업 경쟁도평가위원회 위원
2021-2024 금융감독원 금융감독자문위원회 은행분과 위원
2020-2022 금융감독원 금융지주회사 바젤 III 신용위험평가모형 승인심사위원회 위원
2021-2023 금융감독원 징계위원회 외부위원
2020-2025 한국은행 울산본부 학술자문위원
2021-2022 한국회계학회 회계감사위원회 위원
Education and Qualification
2006-2013: The University of British Columbia, Ph.D. in Accounting
2004-2006: The University of Minnesota, MBA
1990-1994: Seoul National University, BBA
2002 Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)
Research area
Valuation; Disclosure; Financial reporting; Executive compensation & Incentives; Insider trading; Corporate governance; Financial institutions & Capital market regulations
(기업가치평가; 정보공시; 재무보고; 경영자보수계약; 내부자거래; 기업지배구조; 금융기관 및 자본시장 규제)
Publication (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7008-8333)
[1] Joo, Jeong Hwan and S. Chamberlain, 2017. “The effects of governance on classification shifting and compensation shielding,” Contemporary Accounting Research 34(4), 1779-1811, Winter 2017.
[2] Ahn, Minkwan, and Jeong Hwan Joo, 2020. “What determines the voluntary disclosure of CEO succession planning?” Korean Accounting Review 45(5), 115-160.
[3] Bae, Jihun and Jeong Hwan Joo, 2021. “CEO turnover, leadership vacuum, and stock market reactions,” Applied Economics 53(58), 6752-6769.
[4] Bae, Jihun, Jeong Hwan Joo, and Chul W. Park, 2022. “Differential performance impacts of outsider versus insider interim CEO succession,” Asia Pacific Journal of Accounting and Economics 29(6), 1439-1468.
[5] Bae, Jihun, Jeong Hwan Joo, and Jaeyoon Yu, 2023. “CEO succession planning and market reactions to CEO turnover announcements,” Finance Research Letters 58, 103946.
[6] Begley, Joy, Sandra Chamberlain, and Jeong Hwan Joo, 2023. “When is depreciation meaningful in valuation? Changing valuation weights for U.S. REITs,” Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance 38(3), 455-482.
[7] Biddle, Gary, Chan, Lilian, Joo, Jeong Hwan, 2024. “Clawback adoptions, managerial compensation incentives, capital investment mix and efficiency.” Journal of Corporate Finance 84, 102506.
– Featured by Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance (https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2017/10/page/5/)
– Cited by the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission (https://www.sec.gov/files/rules/final/2022/33-11126.pdf)
[8] Joo, Jeong Hwan, Kyung, Hangsoo, 2024, “Clawback provision and insider trading profits.” Journal of Accounting and Public Policy 48, 107242.
– Featured by The FinReg Blog sponsored by the Duke Financial Economics Center (https://sites.duke.edu/thefinregblog/2024/01/23/clawback-provisions-and-insider-trading-profits/)
[9] Ahn, Yuyeon, Han, Soongsoo, Joo, Jeong Hwan, Kim, Taejin, 2025, “Ex-post settling up of financial misreporting and CEO compensation” (Forthcoming at Journal of Business, Finance & Accounting)
Manuscripts under R&R
Hao, Mengshu, Joo, Jeong Hwan, “Equity incentives and earnings management: Evidence from the adoption of an anti-hedging policy” (Revising for resubmission to the third-round review at the British Accounting Review)
Teaching
2013-2019: Financial Accounting, Intermediate Accounting I (HKU)
2019-Present: Financial Accounting, Financial Statement Analysis, Principles of Management – Teach teaching, Principles of Finance and Accounting, Contemporary Issues in Accounting (UNIST)
Non-degree Program Teaching
UNIST- Hyundai Heavy Industry (현대중공업) Innovation Management Program, 2021-2023
UNIST-SOIL MBA, 2022-Present
UNIST- Innovation Campus Start-up Manager Program, 2021
Advising Graduate Students
MengShu Hao (2019), Ph.D. in Accounting (co-supervisor), The University of Hong Kong
– Assistant Professor, Bei Hang University, Peking, China