Bong-Chan Kho

·           Professional Experiences

 

·           Education

 

·           Research Interests

 

·           Teaching Experiences

 

·           Publications in Journals

 

·           Working Papers

 

·           Honors and Awards

 

·           Academic Activities

Professor of Finance, Ph.D.

Business School

Seoul National University


Professional Experiences

·      1997 – Current, Professor of Finance, Seoul National University

·      2009 – Current, Director of Advanced Banking Program, Seoul National University

·      2008 – 2010, Associate Dean for MBA Programs, Seoul National University

·      2007 – 2008, Director of Ph.D. Program, Seoul National University

·      2003 – 2005, Visiting Professor, Dice Center Research Fellow, The Ohio State University

·      1995 – 1997, Assistant Professor, University of Seoul

 

Education

·      1994, Ph.D. in Finance, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A.

·      1989, MBA, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

·      1985, B.B.A., Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

 

Research Interests

·      Investments - Asset Pricing, Market Efficiency, International Finance

·      Derivative Securities and Risk Management

·      Corporate Finance

 

Teaching Experiences

·      Financial Management - Undergraduate course

·      Investments - Undergraduate course

·      Derivative Securities - Undergraduate course

·      Studies in Corporate Finance - Master course

·      Seminar in Financial Management - Master course

·      Fixed Income Securities - Master course

·      Financial Econometrics - Master/Ph.D. course

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Publications in Journals

·   What Factors Drive Global Stock Returns?Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming (with Andrew Karolyi and Kewei Hou) (SSRN)

 

·    “Financial Globalization, Governance, and the Evolution of the Home Bias,” Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 47, No. 2, May 2009 (with René M. Stulz and Frank Warnock; Also published in NBER Working paper No. 12389)

 

·   “The Impacts of Day-Trading on Volatility and Liquidity,” Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies, Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 237~275, April 2009 (with Hyuk Choe and J. M. Chung; Presented at the Korean Finance Association Annual Conference in 2002)

 

·   “Accrual Anomaly and Arbitrage Trading Opportunity,” Korean Journal of Financial Studies, Vol. 38, No. 1, pp.77-105, March 2009.(with Jin-Woo Kim)(in Korean)

 

·   “Does National Pension Service’s Trading Destabilize Korean Stock Market?,” Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies, Vol. 37, No. 3, 2008 (with Byung-Hee Lee, Woo-Jong Lee, Lee-Seok Hwang) (in Korean)

 

·   “Earnings Forecast Accuracy and Recommendation Profitability of the Analysts in Korea,” Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies, Vol. 36, No. 6, 2007 (with Jin-Woo Kim) (in Korean)

 

·   “Does the Accrual Anomaly Reflect a Risk Factor? The Case of the Korean Stock Market,” Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies, Vol. 36, No. 3, 2007 (with Jin-Woo Kim) (in Korean)

 

·   “Interaction of Momentum Returns in Stock and Bond Markets in Korea,” Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 103~133, 2006 (in Korean)

 

·   “Do Domestic Investors Have an Edge? The Trading Experience of Foreign Investors in Korea,” Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 18, No. 3, 2005. (with Hyuk Choe and René M. Stulz; Presented at the American Economic Association Annual Conference in 2003)

 

·   “Bayesian Anaysis of Stochastic Beta Models in Korean Stock Markets,” Korean Journal of Financial Management, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 43~69, 2005 (with Seung-Min Yae) (in Korean)

 

·   “Trading Performance of Domestic and Foreign Investors in KOSPI 200 Index Futures Markets,” Korean Journal of Futures and Options, Vol. 13, pp. 1~27, 2005 (with Jin-Woo Kim) (in Korean)

 

·   “Momentum Strategies: Some Bootstrap Tests,” Journal of Empirical Finance, Vol. 11, No. 4, 2004. (with Andrew Karolyi; Presented at the Journal of Empirical Finance’s Special Conference on Behavioral Finance in October 2002)

 

·   “Do Foreign Investors Destabilize Stock Markets Through Futures Trading During the Korean Crisis in 1997?” Korean Business Journal, Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 1~29, 2003 (with Hee Kim) (in Korean)

 

·   “Financial Activities of Large Firms in Korea,” Journal of Finance and Banking, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 1~56, 2003 (with D. S. Choi and Y. S. Park) (in Korean)

 

·   “Conditional Skewness and Risk Premium,” Journal of Finance and Banking, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 111~135, 2003 (with S. Y. Park) (in Korean)

 

·   “Intraday Price Changes and Trading Volume in Korea Treasury Bond Futures and Futures Options Markets,” Korean Journal of Futures and Options, Vol. 10, pp. 57~94, 2002 (with Jin-Woo Kim) (in Korean)

 

·   “Measuring Corporate Credit Risk Spreads Based on the Reduced-Form Model,” Journal of Finance and Banking, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1~36, 2002 (with Jin-Woo Kim) (in Korean)

 

·   “Insider Trading Around Corporate Information Disclosures in Korea,” Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies, Vol. 30, pp. 1~32, 2002 (with D. S. Choi) (in Korean) (Presented at the Special Symposium of the Korean Securities Association in September 2000)

 

·   “Reference Rate and Arbitrage Opportunities in the Floating Rate Notes in Korea,” Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies, Vol. 28, pp. 21~56, 2001 (with D. S. Choi and J. M. Chung) (in Korean) (Presented at the Annual Conference of the Korean Securities Association in October 2000)

 

·   “Threshold Cointegration and Nonlinear Dynamics of KOSPI200 Cash and Futures Prices,” Korean Journal of Futures and Options, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 105~139, 2001 (with B. H. Kim and B. S. Seo) (in Korean) (Presented at the Annual Conference of the Korean Finance Association in 2001)

 

·    U.S. Banks, Crisis, and Bailouts: From Mexico to LTCM,” American Economic Review, Vol. 90, No. 2, 2000. (with Dong Wook Lee and René M. Stulz; Presented at the IMF Annual Conference in 1999, and the American Economic Association Annual Conference in 2000; Also published in NBER Working paper No. 7529)

 

·   “Banks, the IMF, and the Asian Crisis,” Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Vol. 8, 2000. (with René M. Stulz; Presented at the Federal Reserve Board, Columbia University, the Ohio State University, the University of St. Gallen, and the American Economic Association Annual Conference in 2000; Also published in NBER Working paper No. 7361)

 

·   “An Empirical Analysis on the Abnormal Performance of Security-Issuing Firms in Korea,” Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies, Vol. 27, pp. 439~476, 2000 (with R. S. Park) (in Korean) (Presented at the Annual Conference of the Korean Finance Association in 1999)

 

·   “Do Foreign Investors Destabilize Stock Markets? The Korean Experience in 1997,” Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 54, No. 2, 1999. (with Hyuk Choe, and René M. Stulz; Presented at the Federal Reserve Board, Korea University, London Business School, MIT, Seoul National University, the Ohio State University, Virginia Tech University, Yale University, University of California at Berkley, World Bank, the NBER Asset Pricing Group, Q-Group, and the Korea Finance Association meeting in 1998; Also published in NBER Working paper No. 6661, and the NBER Digest, October 1998)

 

·   “Execution Performance of Market and Limit Orders in the Korea Stock Exchange,” Korean Journal of Finance, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 165~197, 1999 (in Korean) (Presented at the Annual Conference of the Korean Securities Association in 1999)

 

·   “Time-varying Risk Premia and Profitability of Momentum Strategies,” Korean Business Journal, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 1~18, 1999 (in Korean)

 

·   “Time-varying Risk Premia and Profits from Portfolio Trading Strategies in the U.S. Stock Markets,” Seoul Journal of Business, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 75~111, 1998

 

·   “Currency Futures Prices, Volume, and Volatility: A Semi-nonparametric Approach,” Journal of Economics and Management, Vol. 12, No 1, pp. 347~387, 1997

 

·   “Long-Term Performance of Security-Issuing Firms in Korea,” Korean Journal of Money and Finance, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 145~174, 1997 (in Korean) (Presented at the Annual Conference of the Korean Money and Finance Association in 1997)

 

·   “Time-varying Risk Premia and Profitability of Relative Strength Strategies,” Korean Journal of Financial Management, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 1~21, 1997 (in Korean)

 

·   “Stock Price and Volume: Semi-nonparametric Approach,” Korean Journal of Finance, No. 13, pp. 1~35, 1997 (in Korean) (Presented at the Annual Conference of the Korean Finance Association in 1997)

 

·   “Time-varying Risk Premia, Volatility, and Technical Trading Rule Profits: Evidence from Foreign Currency Futures Markets,” Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 41, No. 2, 1996. (Rated with the Highest Quality Rating by ANBAR Management Intelligence in 1998)

 

·   “Information, Trading, and Stock Returns: Lessons from Dually-listed Securities,” Journal of Banking and Finance, Vol. 20, No. 7, 1996. (with K. C. Chan, W.-M. Fong, and René M. Stulz; Rated with the Highest Quality Rating by ANBAR Management Intelligence in 1998)

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Working Papers

·   “Do Domestic Investors Have More Valuable Information About Individual Stocks Than Foreign Investors?” (with Hyuk Choe and René M. Stulz; Presented at the Ohio State University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Duke University, Bank of Korea; published in NBER Working paper No. 8073) (SSRN)

 

·   “Price Manipulation Using Fictitious Orders in an Electronic Limit Order Market,” (with Hyuk Choe, J. M. Chung, and I. S. Myung)

 

·   “Time-Varying Risk Premia and the Returns to Buying Winners and Selling Losers: Caveat Emptor et Venditor,” (with Andrew Karolyi; Presented at the Chicago CRSP Seminar, Queen’s University, University of Michigan, and the Ohio State University) (SSRN)

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Work in Progress

·   “Characteristics versus Covariances: A Global Perspective,” (with Andrew Karolyi and Kewei Hou)

 

·   “On the Value Relevance of Cash Flow: A Cross-Country Analysis,” (with Andrew Karolyi and Kewei Hou)

 

·   “Explaining the Long-run Abnormal Performance Following New Security Issues,” (with René M. Stulz)

 

·   “Raising Competitiveness of Derivative Securities Markets in Korea,” (with I. J. Kim, Y. H. Eum, and I. M. Lee; Presented at the Special Symposium of the Korean Association of Futures and Options, Fall 2000)

 

·   “Do International Investors Perform Better?” (with Hyuk Choe; Presented at the Financial Management Association Meeting in Chicago, October 1998)

 

·   “Stock Prices, Volume, and Volatility: The Case of the Korean Stock Market,” (Presented at the Ohio State University, and the Financial Management Association in Honolulu, Hawaii, October 1997)

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Books and Monographs

·   “Comparison of the Performance Measurements for Domestic Equity Mutual Funds,” Seoul National University, 2010

 

·    “Cyber Financial Risk Management,” Seoul National University, 2003

 

·   “Capital Structure and Dividend Policy of Korean Firms,” (with D. S. Choi and Y. S. Park), Park Young Publishing Co., 2001. (Presented at the Summer Conference of the Korean Academic Society of Business Administration in 2000)

 

·   “Salient Features of Shareholder-Value Creating Firms in Korea,” (with D. S. Choi and Y. S. Park), Park Young Publishing Co., 2001.(Presented at the Summer Conference of the Korean Academic Society of Business Administration in 2000)

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Honors, Awards, and Grants

·   Best Research Award, Seoul National University, 2010

 

·   Best Teaching Award, Seoul National University, 2008

 

·   Best Paper Award, Korea Securities Association, 2003, 2007, 2010

 

·   Best Paper Award, First International Conference on Asia-Pacific Financial Markets, 2006

 

·   Best Paper Award, Korea Financial Management Association, 2006

 

·   Maekyung Economist Award, 2006

 

·   INQUIRE-UK Research Grant Award, 2006

 

·   BSI Gamma Foundation Research Grant Award, 2006

 

·   Dice Center Research Fellow, The Ohio State University, 2003~2005

 

·   Korea Research Foundation Grant, 2004

 

·   Top 20 in Research Productivity of the Finance Profession in the Asia-Pacific Region, 2001

(Pacific-Basin Finance Journal Vol. 9)

 

·   Highest Quality Rating Paper by ANBAR Management Intelligence, 1998

 

 

 

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Academic Activities

·   Vice President, Korean American Finance Association (KAFA), 2009 ~ Current

 

·   Co-Editor, Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies (the first SSCI-listed finance journal in Asia), 2008 ~ 2010

 

·   Board Member, Asia Finance Association (AsFA), 2008 ~ 2010

 

·   President Nominating Committee, American Finance Association, 2006 ~ 2007

 

·   Program Committee, Financial Management Association, 2005 ~ Current

 

·   Program Committee, Western Finance Association, 2003 ~ Current

 

·   Program Committee, PACAP/FMA, 2001

 

·   Editorial Board Member, Korea Finance Association, 1997 ~ Current

 

·   Editorial Board Member, Korean Association of Futures and Options, 1999 ~ Current

 

·   Editorial Board Member, Korean Securities Association, 2001 ~ Current

 

·   Board of Directors, Korean Association of Futures and Options, 2002 ~ Current

 

·   Referee Work, 1995 ~ Current

-         Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, American Economic Review, Journal of International Money and Finance, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal

-         Korean Journal of Finance, Journal of Korean Securities Association, Korean Journal of Futures and Options, Korean Journal of Money and Finance, Korean Management Review

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