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University of Sydney

#4,291 worldwide#4,179 in Australia

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4.08/20/2025

Inspires confidence and independent thinking.

4.05/21/2025

Makes even the toughest topics accessible.

5.03/31/2025

A role model for academic excellence.

4.02/27/2025

Always fair, kind, and deeply insightful.

5.02/4/2025

Great Professor!

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About Simon

Simon Kwok is an Associate Professor in the School of Economics at the University of Sydney, part of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. He earned his PhD in Economics from Cornell University in August 2012. His research specializes in time series econometrics, statistics, and financial econometrics, with a particular emphasis on option pricing models, jump processes in asset returns, and detecting financial bubbles using options data. Kwok's work addresses key challenges in econometric modeling, such as nonparametric inference for jump autocorrelation, specification tests for calibrated option pricing models, and policy evaluation under interactive fixed effects.