
Choi, Yongok
Email : choiyongok@cau.ac.kr
Phone : 02-820-5548
Room : 1003 Centennial
Personal Webpage :
Education
Indiana University Ph.D. (Economics). 2012.7.
Statistics, Department of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University 2000.2.
Experience
2017. 3. ~ present Associate Professor, School of Economics, Chung-Ang University
2014. 7. ~ 2017. 2. Associate Fellow, korea development institute, Financial Economics Research
2012. 8. ~ 2014. 5. Invitation Assistant professor, School of Economics, Indiana University
Research Interests
Energy Economics, Econometrics of Big Data and Machine Learning, Finanical Economics, Population Economics
Selected Publications
Information Aggregation Bias and Samuelson’s Dictum (with Giacomo Rondina and Todd B. Walker), Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Volume 55, Issue 5, 2023, pp. 1119 – 1145
Forecasting regional long-run energy demand: A functional coefficient panel approach (with Yoosoon Chang, Changsik Kim, J. Issac Miller, and Joon Y. Park), Energy Economics, Volume 96, 2021, pp. 1 – 10
Impact of Longevity Risks on the Korean Government: Proposing a New Mortality Forecasting Model, The Korean Economic Review, Volume 36, Number 1, Winter 2020, pp. 201-225
A New Approach to Model Regime Switching (with Yoosoon Chang and Joon Y. Park), Journal of Econometrics 196, 2017, pp. 127 – 143
Disentangling Temporal Patterns in Elasticities: A Functional Coecient Panel Analysis of Electricity Demand (with Yoosoon Chang, Changsik Kim, J. Issac Miller, and Joon Y. Park), Energy Economics, Volume 60, 2016, pp. 232 – 243
A Reexamination of Stock Return Predictability (with Stefan Jacewitz and Joon Y. Park), Journal of Econometrics 192, 2016, pp. 168–189
Evaluating Factor Pricing Models Using High Frequency Panels (with Yoosoon Chang, Hwagyun Kim, and Joon Y. Park), Quantitative Economics, Volume 7, Issue 3, November 2016, pp. 889 – 933
Research on measurement and management of longevity risk, Korea Development Institute, 2015
Economic Effects of Regulatory Reform, Korea Development Institute, 2015
Courses
(Undergraduate) Economic Statistics Econometrics, Economic Data Analysis Using Machine Learning
(Graduate) Energy Demand Forecasting, Econometrics of Big Data and Machine Learning