Yonsei School of Business

EDUCATION

1992 Ph.D. University of California at Los Angeles
1983 MBA University of Washington at Seattle
1980 B.B.A. Yonsei University

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Professor, School of Business, Yonsei University,
Assistant Professor, The Pennsylvania State University, 1992-1994

TEACHING INTERESTS

Managerial Accounting Agency Theory

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Agency Theory Cost Structures Management Compensation

SELECTED PUBLICATION

Lee, Kyung-Tae, Sung-Kyu Sohn and Jong-Won Choi. 2007. The Effect of Litigation Risk on Audit Fees. Korean Accounting Journal 16(1): 53-79.

Lee, Kyung-Tae and Jong-Won Choi. 2006. An Outside Assessment of the Corporate Governance Quality : The Directors' and Officers' Insurance Premium. Korean Accounting Review 31 (4): 53-84.

Lee, Kyung-Tae and Jong-Won Choi. 2006. The Characteristics of Korean Firms Purchasing Directors' and Officers' Insurance. Korean Insurance Journal 74 :1-31.

Park, Ae-Young, Kyung-Tae Lee and Sang-Cheol Lee. 2006. The Effect of Executive Stock Options Compensation and Ownership Structure on R&D Investment. Korean Accounting Review 31 (2): 89-126.

Lee, Kyung-Tae, Moon-Jong Chung and Sang-Cheol Lee. 2006. Cost Incurrence Structures and Cost Management Practices of Manufacturing Companies in Korea. Korean Journal of Management Accounting Research 6(1):1-25.

Lee, Kyung-Tae, Sang-Cheol Lee and Ae-Young Park. 2005. Effect of Ownership and Governance Structure on Executives` Stock Options. Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies 34(3):37-70.

Lee, Kyung-Tae, Sang-Cheol Lee and Ae-Young Park. 2005. Effect of Executives` Stock Option on Firm Value: Linear and Non-Linear Analysis. Korean Management Review 34(6): 1637-1665.

Lee, Kyung-Tae, Sang-Cheol Lee and Ae-Young Park. 2005. The Impact of Executive Stock Option Compensation on Stock Return Volatility. Korean Management Review 34(1): 57-84.

Lee, Kyung-Tae, Sang-Cheol Lee and Ae-Young Park. 2004. Firm’s Characteristics Affecting a Reasonable Weight of Stock Options in Executive Compensation. Korean Accounting Review 29 (4): 155-189.

Choi, Byung Hyun and Kyung-Tae Lee. 2004. An Empirical Study of the Ratchet Effect in Performance Evaluation System. Korean Accounting Review 29(3): 293-322.

Lee, Kyung-Tae and Oi-soon Lee.2004. The Study of the Effect of Customer Satisfaction on Firm Value. Customer Satisfaction Research.

Yang, Il-Sun, Mun-Kyung Park, Jin-A Cha, Sang-Yong Park and Kyung-Tae Lee. 2004. Identification of foodservice operation evaluation model's criteria items for certifying contract foodservice management company. Korean Food & Cookery Science Research.

Lee, Sang-Cheol and Kyung-Tae Lee. 2003. An Empirical Study on the Effect of an Audit Committee on Earnings Management. Korean Accounting Review 28(3): 143-172.

Kim, Jee-Hong, Sung-Kyu Sohn, Kyung-Tae Lee and Sang-Chae Choo. 2003. An Empirical Study on the Effect of Raising the Function of Supervision on the Quality of Construction Work-Applying agency theory to government-contracted construction. Korean Accounting Review 28(2): 173-209.

Lee, Kyung-Tae. 2003. Analysis on the Effect of EDI Adoption and of cognition difference between members in the Public Procurement Market. Journal of Supply Management.

Kim, Jee-Hong and Kyung-Tae Lee. 2003. Factors Causing the Difference of Product Costs Under a Traditional Costing System and an ABC systems. Korean Journal of Management Accounting Research 3(2): 97-117.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND AWARDS

Treasurer, Yonsei University, 2004-2005 Chairperson, Department of Business Administration,
Yonsei University, 2003-2004 President,
Management Accounting Association of Korea, 2008-present