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Hwang, Joon Ho 황준호

  • Finance
  • Professor
  • Financial Management, Corporate Finance
  • Room 514 in LG-POSCO bldg.
  • TEL : 02-3290-2830
  • Email : joonhwang@korea.ac.kr
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Education

  • Ph.D. in Finance (Minor in Mathematics), Indiana University (Bloomington, IN) (2005)
  • M.E. in Management Engineering, KAIST (Seoul, Korea) (1999)
  • B.E. in Industrial Management, KAIST (Daejon, Korea) (1997)

Career

Experience
  • Associate Dean for Planning and Budget, Korea University Business School, 2020-2022.
  • Professor of Finance, Korea University, 2019-Present.
  • Finance Area Chair, Korea University, 2017-2019.
  • Associate Professor of Finance, Korea University, 2014 - 2019.
  • Visiting Associate Professor, UCLA, 2015-2016.
  • Academic Director, Finance MBA Program, Korea University, 2014-2015.
  • Assistant Professor of Finance, Korea University, 2007-2013.
  • Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Memphis, 2005-2007.

Awards
  • IBRE Research Award, Korea University, 2009,2013,2014. 2017.
  • Outstanding Article Award, Journal of Financial Research, 2009.
  • Distinguished Paper Award, Korean Finance Association, 2015.
  • Distinguished Paper Award, Korean Financial Management Association, 2008.
  • Outstanding Teaching (Seok-tap) Award, Korea University, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014.
  • Korea University Business School MBA Teaching Award, 2015.
  • Ayres Fellowship from ABA (American Bankers Association) Stonier Graduate School of Banking, 2007.
 
Services
•Director, Korean Research Association for the Business Education (한국상업교육학회), 2023-present.
•Associate Editor, Korean Research Association for the Business Education (한국상업교육학회), 2017-present. 
•Director, Korean Securities Association (한국증권학회), 2020-2021.
•Associate Editor, Korean Journal of Financial Studies (한국증권학회지), 2013-2017.
•Associate Editor, Asian Review of Financial Research (재무연구), 2010-2013.
•American Red Cross Lifeguard, 2005-2007.
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Publications

  • A Decision Model for Advertising Expense: From the Perspective of the Blockholder’s Private Benefits (Journal of Commodity Science and Technology, June 2009)
  • Private benefits : ownership vs. control (Journal of Financial Research, December 2009; Outstanding Article Award for 2009)
  • Dynamics of general purpose technologies in an open economy (Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics, December 2009)
  • Pricing of private placements of equity (Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies, February, 2010)
  • An empirical examination of the parimutuel sports lottery market versus the bookmaker market (Southern Economic Journal, April 2010)
  • The role of R&D and corporate governance in Korea: IT firms versus non-IT firms (Information Techonology and Management, March 2013)
  • The impact of earnings guidance on information asymmetry (Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, January/Februay 2014)
  • Block premium and shareholder litigation (Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies, June 2014)
  • Misunderstanding of the binomial distribution, market inefficiency, and learning behavior: Evidence from an exotic sports betting market (European Journal of Operational Research, May 2015)
  • Corporate social responsibility, market competition, and shareholder wealth (Investment Analysts Journal, January 2016)
  • Determinants of point redemption in loyalty programs: Implications for customer equity management (Journal of Business Research, September 2016)
  • Corporate governance, product market competition, and stock returns: Evidence from the Korean market (Asian Business & Management, February 2017)
  • Directors' and officers' liability insurance and firm value (Journal of Risk and Insurance, June 2018)
  • The effectiveness of foreign debt in hedging exchange rate exposure: Multinational Enterprises vs. Exporting Firms (Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Dec 2020)
  • Bitcoin Price Manipulation: Evidence from Intraday Orders and Trades (Applied Economics Letters, Dec 2020)
  • Underwriters' price support regulation and institutional investors' trading: The case of the putback option (Research in International Business and Finance, forthcoming)
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