Rate My Professor Isabella Yoon

Dr Jungah (Isabella) Yoon is a Senior Teaching Fellow in the Department of Accountancy and Finance, part of the Otago Business School at the University of Otago. She assumed her full-time role as Teaching Fellow in 2023 and advanced to Senior Teaching Fellow in 2025. Yoon earned her BCom, MFinc, and PhD from the University of Otago, with her doctoral thesis titled Essays on Derivatives Markets completed in 2023. Passionate about finance education, she is a member of the AKO Teaching and Learning Committee and serves as an Undergraduate Student Adviser in Finance as well as an Academic Subject Adviser for Finance. Her current teaching responsibilities include BSNS 114 Financial Decision Making, ENTR 211 Entrepreneurial Capital and Valuation, and FINC 305 International Financial Management. In the past, she has taught FINC 102 Business Mathematics and FINC 204 Personal Finance.

Isabella Yoon's research specializations center on derivatives markets and investment. She holds the position of Deputy Director of the Climate and Energy Finance Group (CEFGroup) since March 2024. Her scholarly contributions include the publication 'VIX option-implied volatility slope and VIX futures returns' in the Journal of Futures Markets (2022, with X. Ruan and J.E. Zhang), 'The skewness risk in the energy market' in the Journal of Risk and Financial Management (2021, with X. Ruan and J.E. Zhang), and co-authorship of 'ReportParse: A Unified NLP Tool for Extracting Document Structure and Semantics of Corporate Sustainability Reporting' in the proceedings of the 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI, 2024, with G. Morio et al.). Yoon has also presented papers such as 'The Role of Hedgers and Speculators in the Currency Futures Markets' at the FMA Asia/Pacific Conference (2022) and the New Zealand Finance Colloquium (2022), and 'Information content of the implied volatility smirk of VIX and VXX on SPX Options' at the New Zealand Finance Colloquium (2023).