Yongcheol Shin

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Yongcheol Shin
Born (1960-12-24) 24 December 1960 (age 63)
Nationality British
Academic career
Institution University of York
Alma mater Michigan State University
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Peter Schmidt
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Yongcheol Shin (born 24 December 1960) is a South Korean-born British economist at the University of York. He has previously held positions at leading academic institutions such as University of Cambridge, University of Edinburgh and University of Leeds. His notable contributions to econometrics include asymmetric autoregressive distributed lag model, unit root tests in ESTAR framework, and the long-run structural VAR modelling approach.

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Education and career

Yongcheol Shin received his bachelor's degree in English Literature in 1983 and Master's in Economics at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea in 1985. [1] He received his PhD in economics from Michigan State University in 1992. Currently, Shin is a professor at the Department of Economics and Related Studies at the University of York. [2] Before he has worked as professor at the Department of Economics at the Leeds University Business School (University of Leeds) for seven years. [3]

Previously, he has worked as Senior Research Officer from 1995 to 1998 and Research Officer at the Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge. In 1995–1996, Shin served as short term consultant at the International Economics Department of the World Bank and at the Citibank International plc. London. He was a visiting professor at the SungKunKwan University, Seoul, and Wits University, Johannesburg. From 1995 to 1997, he worked on the econometric software project, Working with Microfit, at the Cambridge University as hands-on session supervisions. [4]

Shin has served as reader from 2000 to 2004 [5] and a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh School of Economics from 1998 to 2000. [1] He was a professor at the Economics Division at the University of Leeds from 2004 to 2011. [3]

Academic merits

Shin has published and written more than 46 articles in leading scientific journals in the areas of econometrics, macroeconomics, asset pricing and empirical finance. [6] His contribution to the ARDL model for the cointegration analysis with Mohammad Hashem Pesaran was introduced in the Cambridge University book, "Econometrics and Economic Theory in the 20th Century" (Ed. Steinar Strøm). [7]

He was awarded Best Paper Award 2002–2004 by Econometric Reviews with Pesaran in 2005 for their research paper Long Run Structural Modelling. [8]

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