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Current Faculty

Current Faculty

Kyongwook Choi

Research Area

International Finance, Macroeconomics

email
Email Address

kwchoi@uos.ac.kr

phone
Phone Number

(+82) 2-6490-2064

location
Office

Mirae Hall, 917

Education

  • Ph.D., Economics, University of Washington, Seattle, 2002.
  • M.A., Economics, University of Iowa, 1998.
  • M.A., Economics, Korea University, 1993.
  • B.A., Economics, Korea University, 1989.

Employment

  • 2003-presentAdvisory Professor, The Bank of Korea
  • 2020-presentNational Assembly Future Institute, Board of Directors
  • 2016-presentHyundai Heavy Industry, Foreign Currency Consultant
  • 2007-presentProfessor/Associate Professor, School of Economics, University of Seoul
  • 2002-2007Ohio University(tenured), Department of Economics, Assistant Professor
  • 1993-2002Bank of Korea

Selected Publications

  • Home Bias of Korean Resident Bond Investors: The Role of FX Hedging (with Daejung Yang), Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 58(10), 2021, pp.1-15.
  • Structural Change in the Forward Discount: Implications for the Forward Rate Unbiasedness Hypothesis (with Eric Zivot and George Sakoulis), Journal of Empirical Finance, 17, 2010, pp.957-966.
  • Long Memory versus Structural Breaks in Modeling and Forecasting Realized Volatility (with Eric Zivot and Weichoun Yu), Journal of International Money and Finance, 29, 2010, pp.857-875.
  • Long Memory in Oil and Refined Products Markets (with Shawkat Hammoudeh), The Energy Journal, 30, 2009, pp.97-116.
  • Long Memory and Structural Changes in the Forward Discount: An Empirical Investigation (with Eric Zivot), Journal of International Money and Finance, 26, 2007, pp.342-363.