Kiyonori Iwata 

News

• August 2025, my joint work "From conflict to coordination: the governance role of bank-involved investor cliques in Japan" is accepted for publication in Finance Research Letters and now available online. [Link]

• August 2025, I have presented my joint work at American Accounting Association 2025 Annual Meeting @Chicago.

• June 2025, I have presented my joint work at Multinational Finance Society 2025 annual conference @Crete and European Financial Management Association 2025 annual meeting @Athens.

• 第2回，『会計人コース』のコラム「決算の良し悪しは関係ナシ!?―個人投資家の売買行動と会計情報」が公表されました。

• 『会計人コース』にコラム「「短納期で失礼します！」―日本の株主総会、考える余裕ナシ？」を書かせていただきました。

• 「企業会計」12月号に「株主還元と企業価値の関係」というタイトルで寄稿いたしました。ご関心のある方はぜひ！

• July 2024, I have presented my joint work at Afrimed Finance Society 2024 conference @University of Cagliari.

• June 2024, I have presented my work at Journal of International Accounting Research conference @National Taiwan University.

• April 2024, I have been appointed as an full-time lecturer at Tokyo Keizai University!

• March 2024, my work "Convergence has already arrived? examining the impact of IFRS 16 issuance on leasing decisions among local-GAAP firms in Japan" is now available online. [available at: SSRN]

• Nov 2023, my joint work "How does stock liquidity affect corporate cash holdings in Japan?: A pre-registered report" (with Ryosuke Fujitani, Yukihiro Yasuda) is accepted for publication in Pacific-Basin Finance Journal and now available online. [link]

• July 2023, my work "Time Limit and Voting Decision of Foreign Institutional Investors: Evidence from the Adoption of an Electronic Voting Platform" is now available online. [available at: SSRN]

• April 2023, My joint work "How Does Stock Liquidity Affect Corporate Cash Holdings in Japan?" (with Ryosuke Fujitani, Yukihiro Yasuda) is now available online. [available at: SSRN]

• October 2022, My current paper "Earnings Quality and Voting Shareholders’ Reliance on Earnings Information: Evidence from the Top Executive Director Election in Japan" in Accounting Letters is now available online (article-in-press). [link]

• August 2022, My research project "The role of Disclosure in Shareholder Voting" has been accepted by Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up. 科研費「研究活動スタート支援」に採択されました。

• August 2022, My joint work "Do Managers Provide Optimistic Forecasts Following Debt Covenant Violations?" (with Souhei Ishida, Takuma Kochiyama, & Ryosuke Nakamura) is now available online. [available at: SSRN] 

• April 2022, Started working as assistant professor at Tokyo University of Science (TUS). 東京理科大学経営学部経営学科助教となりました。

• March 2022, My joint work "Does stock liquidity matter on cash holding in Japan? " (with Yukihiro Yasuda & Ryosuke Fujitani) is awarded as 2022 Japan Round of Global Pitching Research competition (JPRC) "Runner-up Presentation Award".

• March 2022, Awarded as Ph.D. (Commerce and Management) from Hitotsubashi University. 一橋大学より博士（商学）の学位を授与されました。博士論文はこちら(Dissertation) 

• June 2021, My joint work "Shareholder Voting and Proposals for Director Elections in Japan" (with Takuma Kochiyama, in Japanese) is published in Accounting. 河内山拓磨先生との共著が雑誌『會計』に掲載されました。

• December 2021, My paper "A Policy Evaluation of Institutional Investors Voting Disclosure Rule: A Quasi-Experiment" (in Japanese) is published in Japan Journal of Finance. 拙稿「機関投資家による議決権行使結果の個別開示と社外取締役の選任」が『経営財務研究』誌に掲載されました。[link]

• August 2020, My paper "The Effect of Payout-related Shareholder Proposals on Earnings Management" (in Japanese) is published in Securities Analysts Journal. 拙稿「ペイアウト政策に関する株主提案と経営者による利益調整」が『証券アナリストジャーナル』誌に掲載されました。[link]