Seokwoo Lee, Ph.D

Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance 

Robert H. Smith School of Business,
The University of Maryland  (2021-present)


Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance 

Stephen M. Ross School of Business,
The University of Michigan (2019-2020)


Visiting Scholar (Finance) at The Wharton School 

The University of Pennsylvania (Fall 2017; Fall 2018)


Assistant Professor of Finance (on leave 2019 AY)

School of Business, George Mason University (2013-2020) 


Contact:

University of Maryland

Robert H. Smith School of Business

Van Munching Hall College Park, MD

Office: VMH 4457


email: swlee7 at umd dot edu

Research Interests

Financial Institutions and Contracting, Continuous-time Asset Pricing and  Corporate Finance, Robust Beliefs, Machine Learning Methods in Finance, Economics of Blockchain (using Global Games), Bayesian Econometrics 

Professional Services

Referee: American Economic Review (AER), Journal of Finance (JF), Management Science (MS), Review of Finance (RF), Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA), Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial Intermediaries, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies.

Program Committee:   European Finance Association (EFA) 2021 - present.

Education

Ph.D.  Finance (2013)
Ross School of Business, University of Michigan

M.S.  Statistics (Bayesian Econometrics, 2008)
University of Chicago

B.S., summa cum laude, and M.S.  Computer Engineering (2001 - 2005)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor  

U.S. Patent 

Recovery from errors in a data processing apparatus, U.S. Patent Number: 20050207521.