Chiwon Yom

Chiwon Yom is a senior economist at the Center for Financial Research with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Her research interests include bank performance and risk measurement, new bank formation and entrepreneurship, and relationship lending and credit availability. In addition to research, she has worked on deposit insurance pricing and early warning models, participated in the Basel Committee Research Task Force, and reviewed credit risk, market risk and stress-testing models on bank examinations. She received her doctorate from the University of California at Irvine and her Bachelor of Science from the University of California at Berkeley.