Young Jae (Jay) Choi

Undergraduate courses

• FIN 340 Intermediate Financial Management
• FIN 350 Financial Statement Analysis
• FIN 360 Capital Market Financing and Investment Strategies
• FIN 370 Student Investment Fund I
• FIN 470 Student Investment Fund II
• FIN 492 Readings and Research in Finance

Graduate courses

• FIN 501 Managerial Finance

Behavioral finance/economics, Experimental finance/economics, Investments, Social finance

Research Awards

• Early Career Scholars Program Award, University of North Dakota (2026)
• Best Paper Award, Securities Law and Finance, American Law and Economics Conference (2023)

Teaching Awards & Recognition

• Meritorious Student Impact Award, University of North Dakota (2024)
• Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Michigan (2011)

Ph.D. in Finance, Rady School of Management, University of California San Diego

M.A. in Applied Statistics, University of Michigan

B.S.B. in Finance, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota

B.S. in Economics, University of Minnesota

Zombie Stocks, Harvard Business Law Review, Vol. 14, pp. 185-233, 2024. (with Joseph E. Engelberg, Frank Partnoy, Adam V. Reed, and Matthew C. Ringgenberg)

When Losers Talk: Information Diffusion, Social Norms, and Conversations of Investors, Financial Management, Forthcoming.

When Portfolios Speak: Identity Signaling in Congressional Trading, Finance Research Letters, Vol 98, pp. 109772, 2026. (With Xiang Gao)