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Taeyoon Hwang, PhD
Taeyoon Hwang, PhD
- Assistant Professor - Economics
Teaching Area(s)

Econometrics

Statistical Analysis

Financial Data Modeling and Coding

Time Series Data Forecasting

Education

PhD, Economics, Michigan State University, 2024

MA, Economics, Michigan State University, 2018

MA, Economics, Yonsei University, 2017

BA, Economics (Minor: Applied Statistics), Yonsei University, 2015 

Biography

Dr. Taeyoon Hwang is a Professor in the Department of Economics at Western Kentucky University. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Michigan State University. His research interests include Econometrics, Time Series Analysis, and the intersection of Machine Learning and Econometrics for Empirical Finance, with publications in the Journal of Econometrics and the Journal of Business & Economic Statistics. In addition to his teaching and research, Dr. Hwang serves as a Board Member for the Kentucky Economic Association. He has prior industry experience as a Quantitative Research Consultant at a US quantitative hedge fund for stock trading. In his free time, he enjoys coding. (Available coding languages: Python, Fortran, GAUSS and MATLAB)

Recent Publications

“Some Fixed-b Results for Regressions with High Frequency Data over Long Spans” (with Timothy J. Vogelsang), Journal of Econometrics, 2024, 244(2), 105773.

“Robust Confidence Intervals for Autocorrelations of Stationary Time Series” (with Timothy J. Vogelsang), Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Accepted, pp.1-24.

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