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Assistant Professor
DuckKi Cho
Ph.D. in Finance, Arizona State University
Research Interests: Corporate Finance, Labor Economics, Business Networks, Household Finance
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duckki.cho@phbs.pku.edu.cn
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Office:Rm 751, PHBS Building
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Biography
Research Fields:
Corporate Finance, Labor Economics, Business Networks, Household Finance

Education:
Arizona State University, W. P. Carey School of Business, Ph.D. Finance, May 2017

London School of Economics and Political Science, M.Sc. Finance and Economics (Research Track), 2012

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Business School, M.Sc. Management Engineering (Concentration: Finance), with High Honor, 2008

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, B.Sc. Industrial Engineering, with Magna Cum Laude, 2006

Professional Experience:
Moody’s Korean Affiliate - KIS (Korea Investors Service) Pricing Inc., Senior Analyst & Manager @ Fixed Income Quantitative Analysis Division (Compulsory National Service)
Working papers:
 - Do Natural Disaster Experiences Limit Stock Market Participation? (with Sreedhar T. Bharath)
        Awarded Best Paper Award in Behavioral Finance at the 2016 MFA
 - Shadow Union in Local Labor Markets and Capital Structure (with Lyungmae Choi)
 - Downward Wage Rigidity, Corporate Investment, and Firm Value
        Awarded Best Doctoral Paper Award in Corporate Finance at the 2017 SWFA
        Semi‐finalist for Best Paper Award in Corporate Finance at the 2017 FMA
 - Win‐Stay, Lose‐Shift: A Strategy of Serial Acquirers (with Sreedhar T. Bharath and Lyungmae Choi)
        Awarded Best Paper Award at the 2017 Auckland Finance Meeting
 - It’s Not Who You Know —It’s Who Knows You: Employee Social Capital and Firm Performance (with Lyungmae Choi, Michael Hertzel, and Jessie Jiaxu Wang)
        Granted General Research Fund from the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (Project No. 21502018)
Teaching Experience:

Corporate Governance, Peking University HSBS Business School, 2019‐2020

Corporate Finance, Peking University HSBC Business School, 2019‐2020

Financial Risk Management, The University of Sydney, S1 2018

Mergers and Acquisitions, The University of Sydney, S1 2018 – Average Ratings 4.3 / 5.0

Capital Markets and Corporate Finance, The University of Sydney, S2 2017

Research Methods (PhD), ASU, Fall 2015 ‐ Average Ratings 6.9 / 7.0