Woongki Lee, Ph.D. (Korean: 이웅기)

Finance Theorist · CV · ORCID · OSF · Google Scholar

July 2026 News:

The Crypto Bubble Dashboard is now live. The dashboard builds on my speculation-based asset pricing theory and reports the speculative upside indicator (φ) for eight major cryptocurrencies.

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I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Economics at Yonsei University in Seoul, Republic of Korea. I earned a Ph.D. in Finance (2019) from Korea University and a B.A. in Economics (2013) from Inha University.

My research interests include theoretical and empirical asset pricing, factor models, stochastic discount factors, mispricing, asset price dynamics, portfolio choice, corporate finance, and valuation. Related areas of interest include return predictability, momentum, systemic risk, active investment management, performance evaluation, capital structure, macroeconomic flows, value creation and conversion, and economic equilibrium.

I am the author of New Ideas in Financial Economics: 25 Theoretical Proposals and Academic Synonymbank: A Writing Resource. Econengine is an independent research project exploring a systematic grammar for economic analysis.