Chamna Yoon

About Me

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Seoul National University. My research primarily focuses on public economics, urban and housing economics, and labor economics, with an emphasis on empirical and structural econometric analyses to inform policy decisions.

Contact Information

Seoul National University, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
+82-2-880-6358
chamna.yoon@snu.ac.kr

Education

PhD in Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 2013
BA in Economics, Seoul National University, 2007

Employment

Associate Professor of Economics, Seoul National University, September 2022 - Present
Associate Professor of Economics, KAIST College of Business, July 2018 – August 2022
Assistant & Associate Professor of Economics, Sungkyunkwan University, March 2017 – June 2018
Assistant Professor of Real Estate, Baruch College, CUNY, September 2013 – February 2017

Research Interests

Public Economics
Housing Economics
Urban and Regional Economics
Structural Econometrics
Labor Economics

Selected Publications

The Impact of Local Fiscal and Migration Policies on Human Capital Accumulation and Inequality in China (with Holger Sieg and Jipeng Zhang), International Economic Review, 2023, 4(1), 57-93.
Electoral Accountability and Control in U.S. Cities (with Holger Sieg), Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 130(11): 2985-3023
Time to Build and the Real-Options Channel of Residential Investment (with Hyunseung Oh), Journal of Financial Economics, 2020, 135(1): 255-269
Waiting for Affordable Housing in New York City (with Holger Sieg), Quantitative Economics, 2020, 11(1): 277–313
Estimating Dynamic Games of Electoral Competition to Evaluate Term Limits in U.S. Gubernatorial Elections (with Holger Sieg), American Economic Review, 2017, 107(7): 1824 – 57
Estimating a Dynamic Spatial Equilibrium Model to Evaluate the Welfare Implications of Regional Adjustment Processes: The Decline of the Rust Belt, International Economic Review, 2017, 58(2): 473 – 497