Youngjin Choi

Youngjin Choi

  • College of Liberal Arts

    Economics

    Assistant Professor - Instructional

Office Location

Gladfelter Hall, 239

Expertise

International Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Applied Econometrics

Biography

Dr. Choi joined the Economics Department at Temple in 2015 after receiving her PhD from North Carolina State University. Her research has been in the fields of Empirical Macroeconomics, Applied Econometrics, International Macroeconomics, and Monetary Economics. Her research topics have been optimal international portfolio choices for emerging markets, optimal monetary policy for emerging economies with heterogeneous households, international spillovers of the US Quantitative Easing (US QE) policy to emerging economies, and optimal exchange rate regimes for small open economies. The methodologies that she has used in her research have been primarily dynamic stochastic general equilibrium modeling (DSGE), Bayesian vector autoregressive modeling (BVAR), and Machine Learning big data analysis with TensorFlow and Python.

Courses Taught

  • 8129 Time Series Econometrics
  • 8190 Bayesian Econometrics
  • 8119 Econometrics II
  • 3564 International Monetary 
  • 1102 Microeconomic Principles