K. Jeremy Ko
Senior Financial Economist
Office of Investments and Intermediaries

Education Summary

Senior Financial Economist: Division of Risk, Strategy and Financial Innovation; U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; 2009–present
Assistant Professor of Finance: Smeal School of Business; Pennsylvania State University; 2002–2009
Visiting Professor of Finance: McCombs School of Business; University of Texas - Austin; 2006–2007

K. Jeremy Ko and Zhijian (James) Huang, Persistence of Beliefs in an Investment Experiment, 2012, Quarterly Journal of Finance 2.
Yoon-Ho Alex Lee and K. Jeremy Ko, Consumer Mistakes in the Mortgage Market: Choosing Unwisely Versus Not Switching Wisely, 2012, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law 14, 417-462.
K. Jeremy Ko, Leveraged Investor Disclosures and Concentrations of Risk, 2009, Journal of Financial Markets 12, 368-390.
K. Jeremy Ko and Zhijian (James) Huang, Arrogance Can Be a Virtue: Overconfidence, Information Acquisition, and Market Efficiency, 2007, Journal of Financial Economics 84, 529-560.

K. Jeremy Ko and Jared Williams, The Effects of Regulating Penalty Fees for Consumer Financial Products, RSFI Working Paper 2013-03.
K. Jeremy Ko and Yoon-Ho Alex Lee, Economic Models and Regulatory Remedies for the Problem of Consumer Credit.
Zhijian (James) Huang and K. Jeremy Ko, Out-of-Sample Performance of Optimal Anomaly Portfolios.

Paper presentation and discussant, 2012 FMA Conference

Paper presentation, 2012 FDIC Consumer Research Symposium

Paper presentation and discussant, 2012 World Finance Conference

Paper presentation, 2008 European Finance Association Conference

Paper presentation, 2008 Washington Area Finance Conference

Paper presentation, 2007 FARFE Conference

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 2012

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 2011

University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2009

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 2009

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, 2009