FBE Ph.D. Students

Suk won Lee is a Ph.D. student in Finance and Business Economics. Prior to joining the program, Suk worked as Junior Economist at the Bank of Korea, dealing with open market operations and foreign reserve management. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Yonsei University and MSc in Finance and Economics from London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Bruce (Yuan) Li is a PhD student of Finance and Business Economics. His research interests include media and financial market, innovation, and labor finance. Prior to PhD study, Bruce got his bachelor’s degree in Economics from Tsinghua University, China.

Roman in a Ph.D. student in Finance and Business Economics. His ongoing research uses analysts' price targets for stocks to compute expected abnormal returns. Using these expectations, he forms portfolios and observes how they perform as compared to equally-weighted portfolios to conclude on the usefulness of analysts' recommendations.

Yuan is a Ph.D. Student in Finance and Business Economics. Prior to coming to USC, he was a research assistant at Chicago Booth. His past research projects heavily relied on the abundance of high frequency security data and computational power from grid computing. His current research interest is empirical asset pricing and he has found exploring financial risks through a well-established discipline has many great values.