Senior Teaching Fellow
BCom, MFinc, PhD(Otago)
Office OBS 5.09
Tel +64 3 556 5908
Email isabella.yoon@otago.ac.nz
Isabella joined the Otago team full-time as a Teaching Fellow in 2023 and was promoted to Senior Teaching Fellow in 2025. Isabella has a deep-seated passion for finance education and contributes as a member of the AKO Teaching and Learning Committee.
Isabella’s primary research area lies in the derivatives market. Isabella has been Deputy Director of the Climate and Energy Finance Group (CEFGroup) since March 2024.
Climate and Energy Finance Group
Teaching
Current
- BSNS 114 Financial Decision Making
- ENTR 211 Entrepreneurial Capital and Valuation
- FINC 305 International Financial Management
Past
- FINC 102 Business Mathematics
- FINC 204 Personal Finance
Research interests
- Derivatives market and investment
Publications
Morio, G., In, S. Y., Yoon, J., Rowlands, H., & Manning, C. (2024). ReportParse: A unified NLP tool for extracting document structure and semantics of corporate sustainability reporting. Proceedings of the 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). (pp. 8749-8753). doi: 10.24963/ijcai.2024/1024 Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
Yoon, J. (2023). Essays on derivatives markets (PhD). University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10523/16269 Awarded Doctoral Degree
Yoon, J. (2023, February). Information content of the implied volatility smirk of VIX and VXX on SPX Options. Verbal presentation at the New Zealand Finance Colloquium, Wellington, New Zealand. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Yoon, J., Ruan, X., & Zhang, J. (2022, December). The role of hedgers and speculators in the currency futures market. Verbal presentation at the Finance Management Association (FMA) Asia/Pacific Conference, Melbourne, Australia. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Yoon, J. (2022, February). The role of hedgers and speculators in the currency futures markets. Verbal presentation at the New Zealand Finance Colloquium, [Online]. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs