David Reeb is a Professor of Finance and holds the Mr. and Mrs. Lin Jo Yan Professorship in Banking and Finance in the Department of Finance at National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School. Dr. Reeb also serves as a Senior Fellow of the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER), a Fellow of the Academy of International Business, and as the Director of Business Doctoral Pro ...[More+]
David Reeb is a Professor of Finance and holds the Mr. and Mrs. Lin Jo Yan Professorship in Banking and Finance in the Department of Finance at National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School. Dr. Reeb also serves as a Senior Fellow of the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER), a Fellow of the Academy of International Business, and as the Director of Business Doctoral Programs at NUS.
Dr. Reeb’s academic research interests range from founding-family ownership to the properties of mandatory disclosure rules, spanning the incentives of financial regulators to the economics of information. His work has appeared in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Accounting Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, American Economic Review, Journal of Law and Economics, and the Journal of International Business Studies. His body of research has generated over 3,000 citations in other academic works, according to Web of Science (Google Scholar 12,000+). In addition, his work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, The Economist, Forbes, the Financial Times, the International Herald Tribune, Inc. Magazine, SmartMoney, MSNBC, and several other leading publications in the US, Canada, and Australia. He has also been interviewed by CNN, Comcast and Bloomberg TV.
Dr. Reeb has been consistently recognised for his academic contributions. His 2003 study on founding-family firms is the mostly cited paper in the Journal of Finance that year. Similarly, his research on accounting report integrity is the mostly highly cited paper in the Journal of Accounting and Economics in 2004. More recently, his research on board of director heterogeneity and R&D disclosures are some of the most highly cited paper in Financial Management (2011) and Journal of Accounting and Economics (2015).
Dr. Reeb completed his Master of Science at Georgia State University and PhD in Business Administration at the Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina.
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