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Sahn-Wook Huh

Assistant Professor
Finance and Managerial Economics Department

Education

PhD, Management, University of California at Los Angeles
MBA, Finance and Statistics, University of Chicago
BA, Economics, Seoul National University, Korea

Research Interests

• Asset Pricing
• Market Microstructure
• Empirical Corporate Finance
• Foreign Exchange Economics
• Behavioral Finance

Teaching Interests

• Investment Management
• Corporate Finance
• Financial Institutions

Selected Publications

Tarun Chordia, Sahn-Wook Huh, and Avanidhar Subrahmanyam, “Theory-Based Illiquidity and Asset Pricing,” Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming

Zhongzhi He, Sahn-Wook Huh, and Bong-Soo Lee “Dynamic Factors and Asset Pricing,” Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Forthcoming

Tarun Chordia, Sahn-Wook Huh, and Avanidhar Subrahmanyam “The Cross-Section of Expected Trading Activity,” Review of Financial Studies 20, 709-740

Awards, Grants, and Honors

• Early Researcher Award ($190,000), Ministry of Research and Innovation of the Ontario Provincial Government, Canada, 2009
• Best Paper Award in the Finance Division, Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC), Niagara Falls, 2009
• SSHRC Strategic Research Grant ($158,911), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2008
• SSHRC Standard Research Grant ($28,194), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2006
• Best Paper Award in the Market Microstructure Track, Financial Management Association, Chicago, 2005
• Fulbright Scholarship, The Fulbright Foundation, 1991-1993 
• Rotary International Scholarship, The Rotary Foundation, 1991-1993

Professional Affiliations

• American Finance Association
• Western Finance Association
• Financial Management Association 
• Korea-America Finance Association
• Korea-America Economic Association

Non-Academic Experience

Experience of several years in the private sector (investment banking and commercial/merchant banking) as well as the public sector (Korea ministry of finance).