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Academic Background

B.B.A., business administration, Chonnam National University
M.S., finance, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ph.D., finance, University of Houston

Research Specialties

• Emerging capital markets
• International finance
• Investments

Current Research

• Comovement of security returns
• International portfolio investment
• Security returns and investment flows

Major Works

• "How Integrated are the Equity and Debt Markets? A comparative Study of Japanese and the U.S. Capital Markets," with T. Jithendranathan and J. Kim, Japanese Fixed Income Markets: Money, Bond and Interest Rate Derivatives, Elsevier North Holland. Forthcoming.
• “The Market Demand Curve for Common Stocks: Evidence from Equity Mutual Fund Flows,” with B.S. Lee, The Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol. 36 (2), pp. 195-220, June 2001.
• “The Dynamic Relationship between Security Returns and Mutual Funds Flows,” Journal of Management and Economics Research, Vol. 24 (2), pp. 153-184, 2001.
• “Cross-border Capital Flows and the Behavior of the Market Returns,” Journal of Management, Vol. 26, pp 143-173, 2001.

Significant Scholarly Honors

• Dean's award for academic excellence, University of Houston, 1999
• The Clay and Lucy Carter award for excellence in teaching, University of Houston, 1998
• Rotary foundation scholarship, Rotary Foundation, Evanston, Illinois, 1992