Sebeom Oh

I am a fifth-year PhD student in Finance at Temple University. My research interests include fintech, digital assets, and financial misconduct, with a particular focus on how technological innovation interacts with investor behavior and market integrity. I will be on the 2025-26 job market.

Working Papers

(*: presentation by coauthor)

[1]  "Preference-Driven Herding in the Market for Non-Fungible Tokens" with Samuel Rosen and Anthony Lee Zhang, Resubmitted to the Journal of Finance, Available at SSRN [Link]

Previous titles were "Investor Experience Matters: Evidence from Generative Art Collections on the Blockchain" and "Digital Veblen Goods".

• 2021 Temple University (23rd YSIF Research Funds Award)

• 2022 Temple University Brownbag*, Kyung Hee University (Online), 2nd Annual CBER Conference* (Boston U), Joint Conference with the Allied Korea Finance Associations (Seoul, Dr.  Jung Soon Shin Memorial Award), Hong Kong Conference for Fintech, AI, and Big Data in Business* (CUHK - Online), NFT.NYC*, DeFi Philly*, Cardiff Fintech Conference* (Online), Financial Management Association Annual Meeting (Atlanta, Semifinalist for Best Paper Award: Fintech), Philly Five Conference* (Villanova U), ISAFE Annual Meeting (Online), New Zealand Finance Meeting* (Online), 3rd Annual Boca Corporate Finance and Governance Conference* (FAU)

• 2023 University of Sussex* (Online), Web3 Financing & Inclusivity* (Online), Wayne State University* (Online)

• 2024 Fintech and Financial Institutions Research Conference* (U Delaware & Philadelphia Fed), FinTech Technology Workshop (U Delaware), Boulder Summer Conference on Consumer Financial Decision Making* (CU Boulder), SFS Cavalcade North America* (GSU), Drexel University*, The Latest in DeFi Research (TLDR) Conference*

• 2025 University of St. Gallen*, U.S. Treasury Office of Financial Research*, University of Lausanne*, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne*

[2]  "Market Manipulation on the Blockchain" (sole-author), Available at SSRN [Link]

Previous title was "Market Manipulation in Non-Fungible Token Markets".

• 2022 Temple University (x2, 25th YSIF Research Funds Award)

• 2023 Joint Conference with the Allied Korea Finance Associations (Seoul, Dr.  Jung Soon Shin Memorial Award), Asia-Pacific Association of Derivatives (Busan), 33rd Annual Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting (Rutgers U), 7th Shanghai-Edinburg-UCL Fintech Conference (Online), Southern Finance Association Annual Meeting (Puerto Rico), 4th Annual Boca-ECGI Corporate Finance and Governance Conference (FAU - Online), 36th Australasian Finance and Banking Conference (UNSW - Online)

• 2024 Eastern Finance Association Annual Meeting (St. Petersburg, Florida), Financial Fraud, Misconduct and Market Manipulation Conference (Lancaster U), Financial Management Association Annual Meeting (Grapevine, Texas)

• 2025 Northern Finance Association Annual Meeting - PhD poster session (Calgary)

[3]  "Price Discovery Within Earnings Calls" (sole-author, Job Market Paper), To be distributed soon

• 2025 Temple University

Publications

[1] "A comparative analysis of housing prices in different cities using the Black–Scholes and Jump Diffusion models" with Hyejin Ku and Doobae Jun, Finance Research Letters, 2022 [Link]

• Based on MA survey paper.

[2] "Measuring CSR, ESG, and Sustainability" with J.H. John Kim, in Responsible Firms: CSR, ESG, and Global Sustainability, Edited by J. Jay Choi and Jimi Kim, 2024 [Link]

• Non-peer reviewed book chapter.

Education

Ph.D. student in Finance, Fox School of Business, Temple University, PA, USA, 2021-2026 (expected)

SoFiE Financial Econometrics Summer School, NYU Shanghai (Online), 2024

• Topic: Financial Machine Learning

CBER-CDFT-DSF Summer School, Columbia University, NY, USA, 2024

• Topic: Blockchain Economics

G.Dip., Financial Engineering, Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada, 2018-2019

M.A., Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Toronto, Canada, 2018-2019

• Specialization in Probability

B.B.A, Business Administration, minor in Mathematics, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea, 2011-2018

• Military obligation during 2014-2016 

Service

Ad Hoc Reviewer

• ACM Transactions on the Web

Conference Reviewer

• 2025 Southern Finance Association

• 2024 Financial Managment Association, Southern Finance Association, Financial Management Association Asia/Pacific

Conference Discussant

• 2025 Financial Management Association (scheduled)

• 2024 Eastern Finance Association

• 2023 Shanghai-Edinburg-UCL Fintech Conference, Southern Finance Association, Boca-ECGI Corporate Finance and Governance Conference, Australasian Finance and Banking Conference

• 2022 International Society for the Advancement of Financial Economics