Hyun-Soo Choi
KAIST College of Business
85 Hoegiro, Dongdaemoon-gu, Seoul 02455, Korea
Phone: (82) 2-9583592 / Fax: (82) 2-9583491
Curriculum Vitae
[CV]
Academic Positions
Associate Professor of Finance, KAIST, Mar 2022 – Present
Visiting Scholar, Columbia University, Jan 2023 - Jan 2024
Assistant Professor of Finance, KAIST, Jan 2019 – Feb 2022
Assistant Professor of Finance, Singapore Management University, Jul 2012 – Dec 2018
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
Publications
"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
"Physical Frictions and Digital Banking Adoption" (with Roger Loh), Management Science, Forthcoming
Working Papers
"Nonbank Growth and Local Housing Prices" (with Yongheng Deng and Heejin Yoon), 2024
"Bank Sentiment and Loan Loss Provisioning" (with Junsung Bae and Allen N. Berger and Hugh Hoikwang Kim), 2024
"Tug of War in Corporate Environmental Lobbying" (with Byeong-Je An and Hugh Hoikwang Kim and Paul Youngwook Kim), 2024
"Setting the Wolf to Guard the Sheep: The Influence of Politicians' Asset Holdings on Economic Bill Proposals" (with Hugh Hoikwang Kim and Paul Youngwook Kim), 2024
"Persistence Pays Off: The Impact of Environmental Commitment on Firm Value?" (with Hugh Hoikwang Kim and Yun-Soo Kim), 2024
"How Migrant Workers Optimize the Use of Fintech to Send International Remittances" (with Sumit Agarwal, Sangheum Cho, and Leora Klapper), 2022
"Hedging and Pricing Rent Risk with Search Frictions" (with Briana Chang, Harrison Hong, and Jeffrey D. Kubik), 2017
"Sand States and the US Housing Crisis" (with Harrison Hong, Jeffrey D. Kubik, and Jeffrey P. Thompson), 2016, NBER working paper No. 19798
This paper subsumes some of the material from "When Real Estate is the Only Game in Town".