Jung Ho Choi

Assistant Professor, Accounting

Jung Ho Choi

Assistant Professor of Accounting

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Research Statement

Ongoing EEO-1 Project. Jung Ho Choi investigates how informational frictions and innovations have an influence on the processes and outcomes of the labor market and how these factors interact with each other. Using corporate disclosure as a major research setting, he studies how informational frictions, especially about employers, can interact with the labor market in three different dimensions: 1) Corporate disclosure (e.g., accounting fraud) has an impact on corporate decisions, which, in turn, affect the labor market (e.g., wage and job turnover); 2) Corporate disclosure shapes the labor market as employees, as an important stakeholder, consumes corporate disclosure (e.g., earnings announcements) for decision making (e.g., job search); 3) Employees, as an input in the (information) production function, have an impact on corporate disclosure. Additionally, he studies how corporate disclosure (e.g., cost structure disclosure) has an impact on individual and aggregate productivity and innovation (e.g., cost innovation and productivity dispersion).

Research Interests

  • Real Effects of Accounting
  • Non-financial Disclosures
  • Personnel Economics
  • Human Resource Management

Bio

Jung Ho Choi completed his PhD at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 2017. In 2012, he earned a master’s degree in statistics from Columbia University. He worked as a financial adviser at PricewaterhouseCoopers in South Korea for five years after he graduated from Korea University with a bachelor’s degree in economics in 2005. His research interests are in real effects of accounting, labor economics, personnel economics, productivity, and innovation.

Academic Degrees

  • PhD, Accounting, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, 2017
  • MA, Statistics, Columbia University, 2012
  • Bachelor of Economics, Korea University, 2005

Professional Experience

  • Financial Adviser, PricewaterhouseCoopers, 2004-2010

Awards and Honors

  • Fletcher Jones Faculty Scholar, 2018-2019

Publications

Journal Articles

Jung Ho Choi, Brandon Gipper
Journal of Accounting and Economics
January 2024
Carrie Oelberger, Alyce Eaton, Jung Ho Choi
Review of Public Personnel Administration
December 2023
Jung Ho Choi, Brandon Gipper, Sara Malik
Journal of Accounting Research
September 2023 Vol. 61 Issue 4 Pages 1109–1158
Bong-Geun Choi, Jung Ho Choi, Sara Malik
Journal of Accounting and Economics
August 2023 Vol. 76 Issue 1
Jung Ho Choi, Joseph Pacelli, Kristina M. Rennekamp, Sorabh Tomar
Journal of Accounting Research
June 2023 Vol. 61 Issue 3 Pages 695–735
Philip G. Berger, Jung Ho Choi, Sorabh Tomar
Management Science
May 2023
Jung Ho Choi
Journal of Accounting Research
September 2021 Vol. 59 Issue 4 Pages 1179–1219
Jung Ho Choi, Alon Kalay, Gil Sadka
Journal of Financial Markets
June 2016 Vol. 29 Pages 110-143

Working Papers

John Manuel Barrios, Jung Ho Choi, Yael V. Hochberg, Jinhwan Kim, Miao Liu November 2023

Stanford Case Studies

Insights by Stanford Business

July 06, 2023
Employees may not understand complex financial reports. But they know when their jobs could be at risk.
December 12, 2022
Eleven articles to help you work, lead, and collaborate better.
March 21, 2022
People are drawn to companies that show they have more diverse workforces, a new study finds.
March 19, 2021
When companies shut down because of executive malfeasance, bottom-tier workers suffer most — especially when it comes to future earnings.

School News

September 19, 2017
The return of the school year welcomes new tenure-line faculty and lecturers, plus new electives to broaden the student experience.