Jinyoung Yoo, Ph.D. Student at Department of Economics Received a Paper of Excellence Award by the Korea Money & Finance Association (KMFA)

[Image 1] Jinyoung Yoo, (Ph.D. student) and Doojin Ryu (Supervisor)

Jinyoung Yoo, Ph.D. student at SKKU’s department of economics (supervisor: Doojin Ryu) received a Paper of Excellence Award at 2020 summer conference held by the Korea Money & Finance Associations.

In the awarded paper (Title: Information trades of options around holidays), Jinyoung Yoo analyzed financial big data as a model of market microstructure and investigated the behavior of high-frequency information trades around the holidays at the derivative markets in various aspects.

Jinyoung Yoo entered the department of economics at SKKU after graduating international high school in Australia and in Beijing. In order to concentrate on studies without interruption, he applied for the combined Undergraduate-Master’s and Master’s-Ph.D. degrees. He is currently in his second year of Ph.D. program.

Even though he is still in his junior years in the degree program, he has published a total seven SSCI academic papers so far, including Finance Research Letters (top 8% of the JCR), and Emerging Markets Review (top 11% of the Business-Finance and the top 15% of Economics). And more of his papers are currently being reviewed in prestigious journals.  

Jinyoung said “The process of writing a paper requires a lot of effort and is difficult, but the experience of exploring new research topics, writing papers and publishing them in academic journals is valuable. I think I am very lucky to be able to focus on research with supervisor, learn how to write thesis, and grow up to be a scholar.”

He also expressed his ambition as a scholar, “I would like to challenge myself to be hired by a prestigious overseas university with SKKU’s undergraduate, Master’s, and Doctoral degrees for the first time.