BIOGRAPHY

Minmo Gahng is an assistant professor of finance at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business.  His research uncovers the economic tensions behind interesting patterns in venture capital, private equity, and IPO markets.  Professor Gahng has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and National Public Radio (NPR), and his research has been cited by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Goldman Sachs, and J.P. Morgan.

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

SPACs

Review of Financial Studies, 2023, (with Jay R. Ritter and Donghang Zhang)

[ Published Version  |  SSRN (pdf)  |  Coverage:  The Indicator from Planet Money (February 2024), The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (March 2022, April 2021), Wall Street Journal (November 2022, October 2022, May 2022, May 2021), Bloomberg (November 2022, June 2021), Goldman Sachs (February 2021), J.P. Morgan (February 2021) ]

WORKING PAPERS

(including scheduled; * : presentation by coauthor)

Create Your Own Valuation

[ SSRN (pdf) ]

Presentations:  Baruch College  |  Cornell University  |  Drexel University  |  Financial Intermediation Research Society (FIRS)  |  Ohio State University  |  Nanyang Technological University  |  Northern Finance Association (NFA)  |  Private Equity Research Consortium (PERC) Spring Symposium  |  SFS Cavalcade North America  |  University of Florida  |  University of Houston  |  University of Illinois at Chicago  |  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign  |  University of Oxford  |  University of Pittsburgh  |  Yonsei University

Selling Private Equity Fees

(with Blake Jackson)

[ SSRN (pdf) ]

Best Paper Award: 14th Annual Private Equity Research Symposium (PERC) 

Presentations:  Western Finance Association (WFA)*  |  London Business School Private Capital Symposium  |  The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC Division of Economic and Risk Analysis)  |  Fixed Income and Financial Institutions Conference (FIFI)  |  SUNY Binghamton  |  University of Michigan Mitsui Finance Symposium*  |  University of North Carolina Private Equity Research Consortium (PERC)  |  Institute for Private Capital Spring Research Symposium  |  University of Florida*

TEACHING

Cornell University

Entrepreneurial Finance and Private Equity (undergraduate, 2025 -)

Corporate Finance (undergraduate, 2024 -)

PhD Seminar in Empirical Corporate Finance (one of the co-instructors, 2025 -)

University of Florida

Financial Management (2021 - 2022), Certificate of Outstanding Achievement