Seongjin Park assisted Professor Sufi examining the announcement effects of credit facility. He also constructed IGM's GDP and Personal Income dataset by working on the database of the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
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While at Chicago Booth, he assisted Professor Sufi with his research on the effect of gas price changes on consumption behavior and working on the database of Bureau of Labor Statistics to construct a comprehensive dataset of inflation, employment and wages.
Park graduated from Korea University with bachelor's degrees in Business Administration and Financial Engineering. He also earned a MA degree in Economics from Duke University. His research interests include the development of capitalism, corporate governance, investment, and household finance.
After working with IGM for two years, he entered the PhD program at the University of Chicago.
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