CURRICULUM VITAE

NAME: Hwan-sik Choi (hwansik@binghamton.edu)

Associate Professor

Department of Economics

Binghamton University

4400 Vestal Parkway E.

Binghamton, NY 13902

Phone: (607) 777-7356

CITIZENSHIP: Republic of Korea         VISA: U.S. Permanent Resident

EDUCATION:

Ph.D., Economics, Cornell University.

M.A., Economics, Cornell University and Seoul National University.

M.S., Statistics, Cornell University.

B.S., Aerospace engineering / economics, Magna cum laude, Seoul National University.

POSITIONS:

Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Binghamton University, 2016~Present.

    Research Fellow, Info-Metrics Institute, 2018~Present.

    Adjunct Associate Professor, American University, Fall 2019.

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Binghamton University.

Assistant Professor, Department of Consumer Science, Purdue University.

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Texas A&M University.

Economist, Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), Washington D.C.

Research Assistant, Risk Analysis Division, The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, U.S. Department of the Treasury (Part time).

RESEARCH:

Econometrics:

Model selection; Diffusions; Robust inference with misspecified models; Bayesian methods; Forecasting; Statistical curvature and differential geometrical methods in statistics.

Financial economics:

Household finance; Credit risk; Macro-finance.

Behavioral economics: 

Noncognitive ability; Health economics; Genoeconomics; Neuroeconomics.

ARTICLES:

Information-Theoretic Perspective on Human Ability, In Chen et al. (eds.), Advances in Info-Metrics, Chapter 4, 2020.

The Credit Card Debt Puzzle and Non-cognitive Ability (with Ron A. Laschever), Review of Finance, 22(6), 2109-2137, 2018.

Information Theory for Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Diffusion Models, Journal of Econometrics, 191(1), 110-128, 2016.

Expert Information and Nonparametric Bayesian Inference of Rare Events, Bayesian Analysis, 11(2), 421-445, 2016.

An Asymptotic Analysis of Likelihood-Based Diffusion Model Selection Using High Frequency Data (with Minsoo Jeong and Joon Y. Park), Journal of Econometrics, 178 (3), 539-557, 2014.

Geometry of the Log-Likelihood Ratio Statistic in Misspecified Models (with N. Kiefer), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 141 (6), 2091-2099, 2011. 

Improving Robust Model Selection Tests for Dynamic Models (with N. Kiefer), Econometrics Journal, 13(2), 177-204, 2010.

Development and Validation of Credit Scoring Models (with D. Glennon, E. Larson, and N. Kiefer), Journal of Credit Risk, 4(3), 41-101, 2008.

Robust Nonnested Testing and Demand for Money (with N. Kiefer), Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 26, 9-17, 2008.

Software Evaluation: EasyReg International (with N. Kiefer), International Journal of Forecasting, 21, 609-616, 2005.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES:

Referee service:

Proposal review for the National Science Foundation (2). 

Review of Finance, Review of International Economics, Economics Bulletin, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Economic Modelling, Journal of Econometrics (2), Journal of Credit Risk.

Department and university service:

Binghamton University: Graduate placement director (2013-2016), Faculty recruiting committee (2013-2015, 2016-2019), Graduate program committee (2013-2014, 2016-2018), Graduate admissions (co-chair, 2013-2014; director, 2016-2018; committee member, 2018-2021), Department seminar organizer (2014-2016), Department executive committee (2014-2015, 2016-2018).

Purdue University: Chronic disease research interest group committee (Purdue, 2010-2011), Recruiting committee (Purdue, 2010-2012), Department seminar organizer (2011-2012), Instructor for Learning Communities for first-year students (2011).

CONFERENCE & INVITED SEMINAR PRESENTATION: