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Samuel Lee is an Associate Professor of Finance at Santa Clara University's Leavey School of Business. His research focuses on corporate finance, bankruptcy law, social networks in financial systems, and the economics of human trafficking and prostitution regulation. He has published extensively in top journals including the Review of Financial Studies and American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.
Key research areas include the market for corporate control, risk management failures, and informal financing structures. His recent work explores how social trust dynamics influence financial transactions and how bankruptcy laws reshape corporate governance. He has received the 2025 ECGI Working Paper Series Intesa Sanpaolo Finance Prize for outstanding contributions.
Lee’s publications analyze topics like leveraged buyout financing mechanisms, activist investor strategies, and policy implications for prostitution markets. He contributes to handbook chapters on alternative finance and violence in informal labor markets. His current research includes projects on preemptive competition in financial markets and family influences on corporate governance.
