Youngjin Choi

Youngjin Choi

  • College of Liberal Arts

    Economics

    Assistant Professor - Instructional

Office Location

Gladfelter Hall, 239

Expertise

Applied Econometrics, International Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics

Biography

Dr. Youngjin Choi joined Temple University's Economics Department in 2015 after earning her PhD from North Carolina State University. Her research encompasses Empirical Macroeconomics, Applied Econometrics, International Macroeconomics, and Monetary Economics. She has investigated topics such as optimal international portfolio choices for emerging markets, optimal monetary policy for emerging economies with heterogeneous households, international spillovers of U.S. Quantitative Easing policies to emerging economies, and optimal exchange rate regimes for small open economies. Methodologically, Dr. Choi employs dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) modeling, Bayesian vector autoregressive (BVAR) modeling, and machine learning techniques using TensorFlow and Python. She is also the founder and advisor of the Temple Data Analytics Club (TDAC).

Courses Taught

  • 8129 Time Series Econometrics
  • 8190 Bayesian Econometrics
  • 8119 Econometrics II
  • 3564 International Monetary 
  • 3544 Computer - Based Modeling
  • 1101 Macroeconomic Principles
  • 1102 Microeconomic Principles