Fenghua Song
Associate Professor of Finance
Department Finance
Office Address 312 Business Building
Phone Number
814-863-4905
Email Address
fxs16@psu.edu
Fenghua Song
Associate Professor of Finance
Department Finance
Office Address 312 Business Building
Phone Number
814-863-4905
Email Address
fxs16@psu.edu
Fenghua Song is an Associate Professor of Finance at Smeal College of Business, Pennsylvania State University, where he teaches financial management (undergraduate) and corporate finance (PhD). He received his PhD from Washington University in St. Louis. His research interests include banking and financial crises, executive compensation and corporate governance, and corporate finance. His research has appeared in The Economic Journal , Journal of Finance , Review of Financial Studies , Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis , World Bank Economic Review , and Journal of Risk , and has also been covered in VoxEU, World Bank Chief Economist's Blog, and Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation . Besides research, Fenghua enjoys music, movies, nature, and spending time with his family.
Expertise
Executive compensation, financial intermediation, financial crisis, and economics of information
Education
Ph D, Finance, Washington University in St. Louis, 2007
MS, Finance, National University of Singapore, 2002
Courses Taught
FIN 597 – Special Topics (1.5)
FIN 305M – Fin Mgt Bus Ent Hn (3)
Development of advanced practices of financial management and their application to decision making in a business firm. FIN 305M Financial Management of the Business Enterprise (Honors ) (3) The objective of this course is to give students an understanding, and working knowledge of the major decisions faced by corporate financial managers. In general, the course will emphasize three major areas: investment and capital budgeting, financing and capital structure, dividend policy and corporate growth. A basic understanding of financial analysis and valuation will be provided. Basic corporate securities markets will be described. Determinants of securities prices, yields, and returns will be discussed. Special emphasis is placed on the role of the capital markets in financing corporate operations and investment, in facilitating corporate reorganizations and financial restructuring, and in reflecting owner's wealth and evaluating the performance of corporate management. Students taking, the course should have a working knowledge of elementary statistics, and a basic understanding of accounting and financial statements. As an Honors course, students will study the impact of corporate activities on the market value of its stock, so a common stock pricing model is needed that accounts for factors that matter to investors. FIN 305M looks at these issues through topics such as, time value of money, risk and return, and valuation of stocks and bonds. The course concludes with topics related to specific business activities, such as capital budgeting, capital markets, capital structure, and dividend policy. The level of discussion and critical analysis expected in FIN 305M compliments the expected level of performance for honors students.
FIN 305W – Financial Mgmt Bus (3)
Development of advanced practices of financial management and their application to decision making in a business firm.
FIN 597B – Corporate Finance I (3)
Doctoral seminar which will cover the fundamental topics in corporate finance, covering both theoretical and empirical work in corporate finance.
FIN 596 – Individual Studies (variable)
Creative projects, including nonthesis research, which are supervised on an individual basis and which fall outside the scope of formal courses.
Selected Publications
Lead article
Lead article.
This paper: (i) won the 2011 Olin Award: Recognizing Research that Transforms Business, (ii) was invited to be summarized at the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, and (iii) presented at the American Finance Association (AFA) 2012 annual meeting.
Lead articleThis paper was nominated to the semi-finalist for the best paper at the 2010 Financial Management Association (FMA) Annual Conference.
We were invited to post a summary of this paper at the VoxEU: a policy portal by the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).
This paper: (i) won the Citigroup award for the best paper presented at the 2009 summer research conference hosted by Centre for Analytical Finance, and (ii) was invited to be summarized at the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, and Smeal Research with Impact.
Lead article.
Research Impact and Media Mentions
Honors and Awards
Olin Award: Recognizing Research that Transforms Business, Washington University in St. Louis, (Jan 1, 2011)
Semifinalist for the best paper at the 2010 FMA conference, Financial Management Association (FMA), (Jan 1, 2010)
Citigroup award for the best paper, Centre for Analytical Finance, Indian School of Business, (Jan 1, 2009)
Hubert C. Moog Scholar for academic excellence, Washington University in St. Louis, (Jan 1, 2005)
American Finance Association (AFA) Student Travel Award, American Finance Association (AFA), (Jan 1, 2005)