Paul Yoo is a Finance Ph.D. Candidate at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill.

Yoo’s current research interests cover ESG Integration, Sustainable Finance, FinTech & Banking, and Monetary Economics. His job market paper empirically identifies significant pricing effects of the two distinct motives for ESG integration: (i) non-pecuniary and (ii) risk-mitigating preferences.

Yoo worked as a Research Assistant at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. He graduated from Columbia University with a BA in Financial Economics and concentrations in Mathematics and Business Management.