Youngran Choi

Title
Assistant Professor
Email
Department
Accounting, Economics, Finance & Information Sciences
College
College of Business
Youngran Choi

Dr. Youngran Choi is an assistant professor of business analytics at the David B. O’Maley College of Business. She earned her Ph.D. in Economics in 2020 at Washington State University with a concentration in Econometrics and Industrial Organization.

Prior to starting her Ph.D., she worked in business consulting at the "Big 4" accounting firms, such as Ernst & Young and Deloitte, and international organizations such as the UN FAO. In both sectors, she used her analytical skills to provide advisory services to a range of multinational clients as they coped with fast-paced changes in market dynamics and successfully completed a number of cross-border mergers and acquisitions deals and transfer pricing restructuring.

Her research interests center on gaining insights into the patterns and underpinnings of decision-making, employing various econometric tools and cutting-edge analytic techniques in aviation and beyond. 

  • Ph.D. - Doctor of Philosophy in Economics, Washington State University
  • BA 352: Bus Analyt for Decision Making
  • BA 530: Busin Analytics for Managers
  • EC 225: Engineering Economics
  • EC 210: Microeconomics

BA352 – Business Analytics for Decision Making

BA399 – Special Topics in Data Analytics

Related articles

Spence, T., Choi, Y. (2025). Unpacking the digital divide: heterogeneous effects of Open Sky Agreements on air transport network centrality amid internet regulation constraints. Transport Policy, 168, 207-219

Choi, Y., Gladson, E. J., & Adhikari, H. (2024). Global dynamics of bond co-movements: insights from the response to the US bond yields using wavelet methods. Finance Research Letters, 69, 106000.

Choi, Y., & Gibson, J. R. (2023). The effect of COVID-19 on self-reported safety incidents in aviation: An examination of the heterogeneous effects using causal machine learning. Journal of Safety Research, 84, 393-403.

Choi, Y., Zou, L., & Dresner, M. (2022). The effects of air transport mobility and global connectivity on viral transmission: Lessons learned from Covid-19 and its variants. Transport Policy, 127, 22-30.

Iles, R. A., Choi, Y., Kagundu, S., & Gatumu, H. (2022). Estimating willingness-to-pay for a livestock vaccine among the marginalized: The role of reflective thought in discrete choice experiments. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 201, 105592.

Choi, Y., Chen, K. J., & Marsh, T. L. (2020). Consumer preference for bio‐based batteries. Journal of Consumer Behaviour, 19(4), 382-396.