Education

   •    Ph.D. in Information Systems, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, Expected May 2014

   •    M.S. Management Engineering, KAIST Business School, 2006

   •    B.S. Mechanical And Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University, 2000

Research Interests

Economics of Information Systems

Crowdsourcing, Digitization, Innovation, IT and Finance Interface, Empirical IO, and Structural Modelling

Publications & Papers Under Review

   •    “Industry-Specific Human Capital and Wages: Evidence from an Emerging Economy”, with Sunil Mithas, Jonathan Whitaker , and Prasanto K. Roy, Under 2nd round of revision at Information Systems Research.

   •    “Assessing Risks Associated with IT Investments across Industries: Evidence from Bond Markets”, with Sunil Mithas and Michael Kimbrough, Under 1st round of review at Management Science.

   •    “Product Market Competition and Corporate Venture Capital Investments: Evidence from the IT Industry”, with Anand Gopal and Gerard Hoberg, Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, 2012, Boston, Massachusetts.

   •    “How Does Bond Market View IT Investments of Firms: An Empirical Analysis of Bond Ratings and Yield Spreads”, with Sunil Mithas, Proceedings of the 32th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), 2011, Shanghai, China.

Working Papers

   •    “Product Market Competition and Corporate Venture Capital Investments: Evidence from the IT Industry”, with Anand Gopal and Gerard Hoberg

   •    “Information Technology and Baumol's "Disease" How Information Technology Influences Productivity of Service Activities”, with Sunil Mithas and Hank Lucas

Research-In-Progress

   •    “The Role of Information and Transparency in Innovation Contests”, with Siva Viswanathan and Il-Horn Hann

Conference Presentations

   •    “Product Market Competition and Corporate Venture Capital Investments: Evidence from the IT Industry”, with Anand Gopal and Gerard Hoberg, Academy of Management Meetings, 2012, Boston, Massachusetts.

   •    “How Does Bond Market View IT Investments of Firms: An Empirical Analysis of Bond Ratings and Yield Spreads”, with Sunil Mithas, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), 2011, Shanghai, China.

   •    “How Does Bond Market View IT Investments of Firms: An Empirical Analysis of Bond Ratings and Yield Spreads”, with Sunil Mithas, Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST), 2011, Charlotte, North Carolina.

   •    “Information Technology and Baumol's "Disease"? How IT Influences Productivity of Service Activities”, with Sunil Mithas, Hank Lucas, Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST), 2010, Austin, Texas.

Teaching

BMGT 301: Introduction to Information Systems (undergraduate), University of Maryland

Professional Experience

   •    Samsung Research Institute of Finance, May 2007 - May 2009

   •    Korean Reinsurance Company, Dec 2005 - Apr 2007

This page was updated on 21 Apr 2012