Young Soo Jang

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Finance

Department Finance
Office Address 329 Business Building
Email Address ykj5180@psu.edu

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Young Soo Jang is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Penn State University. Young Soo earned his Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and B.S. in Economics and Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Young Soo has worked as a research assistant at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and focuses his research on empirical corporate finance, with particular interests in corporate debt and entrepreneurial finance.Young Soo has conducted research in various parts of the private capital markets: private credit, private equity, and venture capital.

Expertise

Corporate Finance, Corporate Debt, Entrepreneurial Finance

Education

Ph. D., Finance, University of Chicago, 2024

B.S., Economics and Mathematics (double major), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016

Courses Taught

FIN 405 – Adv Financial Mgmt (3)
An examination of the development and application of decision rules for major long-term financial and investment problems of the firm.

Honors and Awards