Tadanori Yosano is associate professor at the Graduate School of Business Administration at Kobe University; and visiting scholar of the Research Institute of Capital Formation, Development Bank of Japan. His fields of interest in research are within accounting for intangibles, intellectual capital reporting, accounting for M&A, accounting for employee stock options as well as soft information role in bank-firm relationship. He received a bachelor’s degree in economics at Kyoto University in 1994 and a Ph.D. in business administration at Kobe University in 2002.
Takayoshi Nakaoka is working at Kindai University in Japan as an associate professor, and gives lectures on statistics and econometrics. His current research focuses on relationship banking, corporate cash holding, and information management in the organization. He received a Ph.D. in commerce at Kobe University in 2011, and worked as a researcher at SMBC Nikko Securities Inc.