Positions

Professor, Department of Economics, Sogang University, 2013 ~ Present

Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Sogang University, 2008 ~ 2013

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Sogang University, 2006 ~ 2008

Assistant Professor, College of Business and Economics, University of Idaho, 2003 ~ 2006

Junior Economist, Bank of Korea, 1994 ~ 1996

Education

Ph.D., Economics, University of Washington, 2002

M.A., Economics, Sogang University, 1993

B.A., Economics and Sociololgy, Sogang University, 1991

Research Interests

Industrial Organization, Contract Theory

Publications

• Be Ambitious or Lower Your Expectation: Goals as Optimal Reference Points, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2023

• Use It or Loose It (with F. Khalil, J. Lawarree), Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2019

• Motivating for New Changes When Agents Have Reputation Concerns, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017

•  Contracts Offered by Bureaucrats (with F. Khalil, J. Lawarree), RAND Journal of Economics, 2013

• Delegation of Information Verification, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2013

• Evidence of Asymmetric Information in the Automobile Insurance Market: Dichtomous Versus Multinomial Measurement of Insurance Coverage (with H. Kim, S. Im, and J. Hardin), Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2009

• Captial Budgeting for New Projects: One the Role of Auditing in Information Acquisition, Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2006

• Optimal Task Design: To Integrate or Separate Planning and Implementation? (with F. Khalil and D. Shin),  Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2006

• Exit Option in Hierarchical Agency (with D. Shin, J. Lawarree), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2004

• 손실기피와 담합: 이동통신설비 설치장소 임차료 담합 사례, 시장경제연구, 2024

• 적격심사제 입찰담합, 산업조직연구, 2022

• 갑질 가맹계약, 산업조직연구, 2021

• 공공조달 적격심사제의 투찰균형, 재정학연구, 2020

• 전관예우 균형, 재정학연구, 2020