Jin Suk Park

• Instability in financial markets - caused by market structural issues, e.g. trade constraints, and external events, e.g. terrorism.
• Price and volatility dynamics - stock, foreign exchange and commodity futures markets, and their interactions.
• Intraday and high-frequency trading - with a special emphasis on liquidity and efficiency.
• Economic and industrial development in East Asia and Africa - oil and transportation industries, FDI, trades and factor mobility.
• Corporate financial performance
• Financial market integration

I was awarded a PhD from the University of Nottingham after graduated with a MSc degree in economics and finance from the University of York. I had taught at Durham University full-time since 2010 before joining Oxford Brookes University in 2014 as a senior lecturer. I have been researching and lecturing at Coventry University since 2015. I have taught many modules in finance, econometrics and economics at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, and successfully supervised more than 140 students for their MSc/UG dissertations. Prior to his academic career, I worked as a business consultant and a military officer for several years. I am currently the PGR (PhD/MRES) Director for the Centre for Financial and Corporate Integrity (CFCI).

Area of Expertise:

• Applied econometrics
• Financial econometrics
• Sectoral and regional studies

I am currently supervising the following PhD projects.

• Impact of industry diversification on economic and human development in oil-producing Sub-Saharan African countries. 
• Investigating the causes and impact of South Korea's FDI into Sub-Saharan African countries.
• Testing decouping and recoupling hypotheses between conventrional and Islamic stock markets. 
• Corporate financial performance and the adoption of entreprise risk management. 
• Corporate financial performance and corporate social responsibility.