Rate My Professor Hae Mi Choi

Hae Mi Choi is an Associate Professor of Finance at Loyola University Chicago's Quinlan School of Business, serving in this role since 2019 after eight years as Assistant Professor. Her educational background includes a Ph.D. in Finance and an M.S. in Business Administration from the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington; an A.M. in Statistics from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts; a B.B.A. in Business Administration and a B.A. in Applied Statistics from Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea; and passage of the Certified Public Accountancy Examination in the State of California. Prior to her Loyola appointment, she worked as a Research Associate at Harvard Business School from 2005 to 2006. Choi's research investigates the role of information, incentives, and behavioral biases in financial markets, encompassing financial analysts, mutual funds, empirical asset pricing, and corporate governance. As a faculty fellow at the Gannon Center for Women and Leadership, she is examining diversity in mutual fund teams, including the conditions under which diverse managers are hired and the "glass cliff" phenomenon in finance.

Her publications feature in premier journals, including Management Science, Journal of Banking and Finance, and Financial Review. Key works comprise "Enforcement Waves and Spillovers" (Management Science, 2024, with Jonathan Karpoff, Jerry Martin, and Xiaoxia Lou), documenting industry-wide waves of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement for financial misrepresentation, associated with 30% average one-day stock price drops, elevated CEO turnover, and bankruptcy risks; "Public Sector Unions and Municipal Debt" (Global Finance Journal, 2024, with Swasti Gupta-Mukherjee); "Analysts’ Use of Industry-level and Firm-specific Information: Implications for Information Production" (Journal of Banking and Finance, 2022, with Swasti Gupta-Mukherjee); "A Tale of Two Uncertainties" (Journal of Banking and Finance, 2018); "Analysts’ Optimism and Incentives under Market Uncertainty" (Financial Review, 2017, lead article, with Jin Woo Chang), revealing analysts' optimistic forecasting during high volatility due to reduced penalties and brokerage incentives; and "When Good News is Not So Good: Economy-wide Uncertainty and Stock Returns" (Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, 2014). Awarded Quinlan School of Business Researcher of the Year in 2023, Choi teaches Business Finance, Fundamentals of Corporate Finance, and Applied Econometrics. She holds executive board membership in the Korean-American Finance Association, is a founding member of KAFA-WIN, and advises Delta Sigma Pi.