Eun Jin (EJ) Kwak

College of Family and Consumer Sciences

Financial Planning, Housing and Consumer Economics

Ph.D. Student

Education

Degree Field of Study Institution Graduation
M.S. Business Management with Large Scale Data Analysis City University of New York 2017

Teaching

FHCE 4205 Wealth Management II 

Prior Professional Positions

Organization Title Years of Service
UBS Securities Financial Analyst 2011-2015
J.P. Morgan Securities Financial Analyst 2007-2011

Awards

Award Name Awarded By Year Awarded
Outstanding Financial Planning Graduate Student Award University of Georgia 2021

Publications

Grable, J. E., Kwak, E. J., & Chen, P. J. (2022). An evaluation of the association between marital status and financial risk tolerance. Journal of Financial Planning, 35(7), 84-96.

Grable, J. E., & Kwak, E. J. (2022). An evaluation of the consistency of financial risk aversion estimates. Journal of Personal Finance, 21(1), 19-30.

Grable, J. E., Warmath, D., & Kwak, E. J. (2022). An assessment of the association between Political orientation and financial risk tolerance. Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 15(199), 1-16.

Grable, J. E., & Kwak, E. J. (2022). The disappointment dilemma: The role of expectation proclivity and disappointment aversion in describing financial risk aversion and investing risk-taking behavior. Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning, 33(2), 1-19.

Kwak, E. J., & Grable, J. E., (2021). Conceptualizing the use of the term financial risk by non-academics and academics using Twitter messages and ScienceDirect paper abstracts. Social Network Analysis and Mining, 11(1), 1-14.

Warmath, D., Chen, P. J., Grable, J. E., & Kwak, E. J. (2021). Soft landings: Extending the cushion hypothesis to financial well-being in collectivistic cultures. Journal of Consumer Affairs. https://doi.org/10.1111/joca.12408

Grable, J. E., Kruger, M., Byram, J-L., & Kwak, E. J. (2021). Perceptions of a partner’s spending and saving behavior and financial satisfaction. Journal of Financial Therapy. https://doi.org/10.4148/1944-9771.1257

Grable, J. E., Joo, S-H., & Kwak, E. J. (2021). Describing gambling affinity: The role of personality traits. Journal of Financial Therapy. https://doi.org/10.4148/1944-9771.1236

Grable, J. E., & Kwak, E. J. (2021). The role of disappointment aversion and expectation proclivity in describing financial risk aversion among financial decision makers. International Journal of Bank Marketing. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJBM-12-2020-0593

Grable, J. E., Joo, S-H., & Kwak, E. J. (2020). An assessment of the strength of association between stated and revealed risk-preference measures. Financial Planning Review, 13(3), 77-98.

Grable, J. E., Kwak, E. J., Fulk, M., & Routh, A. (2020). A simplified measure of investor risk aversion. Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, 0260107920924518.

Mattia, L, Kwak, E. J., Grable, J. E., West, C. L., Leitz, L. Y., & Rehl, K. M. (2020). Self-empowerment among widows: A financial planning perspective. Journal of Financial Planning, 33(10), 52-60.

White, K., McCoy, M., Love, K., Kwak, E. J., Bruce, E., & Grable, J. E. (2019). The role of signaling when promoting diversity and inclusion at the firm level: A financial advisory professional case study. Advances in Business Research, 9(1), 1-16.

Remy, C., Brakewood, C., Ghahramani, N., Kwak, E. J., & Peters, J. (2018). Transit information utilization during an extreme weather event: An analysis of smartphone app data. Transportation Research Record, 2672(1), 90-100.

Brakewood, C., Ghahramani, N., Peters, J., Kwak, E. J., & Sion, J. (2017). Real-time riders: A first look at user interaction data from the back end of a transit and shared mobility smartphone app. Transportation Research Record, 2658(1), 56-63.

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