Hyunsoo Choi

Education

• Princeton University, Ph.D., Economics, Jun 2012
• Princeton University, M.A., Economics, May 2008
• Seoul National University, B.A. in Economics and B.S. in Statistics, Summa cum laude, Feb 2005

Academic Positions

• Associate Professor of Finance, KAIST, Mar 2022 – Present
• Assistant Professor of Finance, KAIST, Jan 2019 – Feb 2022
  
• Assistant Professor of Finance, Singapore Management University, Jul 2012 – Dec 2018
  

Publications & Research

"Speculating on Home Improvements" (with Harrison Hong and Jose Scheinkman), Journal of Financial Economics, 111(3), 2014, pp. 609-624

"Matching in Housing Markets: The Role of Ethnic Social Networks" (with Sumit Agarwal, Jia He, and Tien Foo Sing), Review of Financial Studies, 32(10), 2019, pp. 3958-4004

"The Effect of Monetary Policy on Bank Wholesale Funding" (with Dong Beom Choi), Management Science, 67 (1), 2021, pp. 388-416

"Clogged Intermediation: Were Home Buyers Crowded Out?" (with Dong Beom Choi and Jung-Eun Kim), Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 54(4), 2022, pp.1065-1098

Field of Research Interest

• Real Estate Finance; Household Finance; Banking; FinTech; Behavioral Finance