Rate My Professor Horag Choi

Horag Choi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Monash Business School, Monash University, a position he has held since joining the institution in 2010 after seven years as a faculty member at the University of Auckland. He earned his PhD in Economics from Ohio State University in 2003. Choi's research focuses on open economy macroeconomics, macroeconomics, and international trade and finance. His work explores critical areas such as trade adjustment dynamics, the welfare gains from trade, exporter dynamics, trade costs, establishment heterogeneity, microeconomic uncertainty and its effects on international trade and aggregate fluctuations, the J-curve phenomenon in trade balances, and regional inequality through purchasing power measures. He contributes to understanding how firm-level decisions influence macroeconomic outcomes in open economies, including entry and exporting over business cycles and the impacts of trade facilitation amid non-independent impediments.

Choi has published in prominent journals including the Journal of International Economics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, The World Economy, and Journal of Regional Science. Key publications include 'The dynamics of the U.S. trade balance and real exchange rate: the J curve and trade costs?' with George Alessandria (Journal of International Economics, 2021), 'Trade adjustment dynamics and the welfare gains from trade' with Alessandria and Kim J. Ruhl (Journal of International Economics, 2021), 'Trade facilitation in the presence of non-independent impediments' with Joseph Mancuso and Christis G. Tombazos (The World Economy, 2021), 'Regional inequality in the U.S.: evidence from city-level purchasing power' with Chi-Young Choi and Alexander Chudik (Journal of Regional Science, 2020), 'Entry, trade, and exporting over the cycle' with Alessandria (Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2019), and 'Do sunk costs of exporting matter for net export dynamics?' with Alessandria (Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2007). His scholarship has accumulated over 1,200 citations on Google Scholar, shaping discourse in international economics. Choi teaches units such as International Economics and Trade Finance and Foreign Exchange at Monash University.