Contact
Email: heoeunjeong@gmail.com (Office: Mirae Hall 502-2)
Degrees earned
Ph.D. in Economics, University of Rochester, USA 2006-2012
M.A. in Economics, Seoul National University, South Korea 2004-2006
B.A. in Economics (summa cum laude), Seoul National University, South Korea 2000-2004
Employment history
University of Seoul: Department of Economics, Associate professor 2021 - present
Sungkyunkwan University: Department of Economics, Associate professor 2020 - 2021
Sungkyunkwan University: Department of Economics, Assistant professor 2019 – 2020
Vanderbilt University: Department of Economics, Assistant professor 2013 – 2019
University of Bonn: Department of Economics, Post-doctoral research fellow 2012 – 2013
Research
Publications
"Agent-wise-replication invariance for random allocations," Economics Letters 247, (2025) 112087
"Financial aid in college admissions: need-based versus merit-based," Social Choice and Welfare 60, (2023) 265–297
"Allocating CO2 emissions: a dynamic claims problem", with Jinhyuk Lee, Review of Economic Design 27, (2023) 163–186
"Efficient use of immunosuppressants for kidney transplants," with Youngsub Chun and Sunghoon Hong, Journal of Health Economics 85, (2022) 102650
"The top-trading cycles and chains solution for kidney exchange with immunosuppressants," with Youngsub Chun and Sunghoon Hong, International Journal of Economic Theory 18, (2022) 77-91
"Kidney exchange with immunosuppressants," with Youngsub Chun and Sunghoon Hong, Economic Theory 72 (2021) 1-19
"Acyclic priority profiles in school choice: characterizations," with Siwei Chen, Journal of Mathematical Economics 92 (2021) 22-30
"Preference profiles for efficiency, fairness, and consistency in school choice problem," International Journal of Game Theory, 48 (2019) 243–266
"Implementation in stochastic dominance Nash equilibria," with Vikram Manjunath, Social Choice and Welfare, 47 (2017) 5-30 (in honor of William Thomson)
"A characterization of the extended serial correspondence", with Özgür Yılmaz, Journal of Mathematical Economics, 59 (2015) 102-110
"Probabilistic assignment problem with multi-unit demands: A generalization of the serial rule and its characterization," Journal of Mathematical Economics 54 (2014) 40-47
"The extended serial correspondence on a rich preference domain,'' International Journal of Game Theory 43 (2014) 439–454
"Strategy-proof rules for two public goods: double median rules," Social Choice and Welfare 41 (2013) 895-922
"Probabilistic assignment of objects: characterizing the serial rule," with Anna Bogomolnaia, Journal of Economic Theory 147 (2012) 2072-2082
"Queueing problems with two parallel servers," with Youngsub Chun, International Journal of Economic Theory 4 (2008) 299-315
Publications in Korean:
"천연가스시장 경쟁도입과 필수설비 공유의 효과 분석," 2020, 조명환 · 허은정, 자원 · 환경경제연구 29, 47-89.
"네트워크 게임의 배분규칙과 그 특성에 관한 연구," 2006, 전영섭·허은정, 경제논집 45, 37-56.
Working papers and works in progress:
"Need-blind versus Need-aware College Admissions, Financial Aid and Student Loan Programs," with In-Uck Park, 2024.
"Efficient random allocation with ordinal rules," with Samson Alva and Vikram Manjunath, 2025.
"Ordinality in random allocation," with Vikram Manjunath, 2025.
"Fair Cost Sharing in Ride Sharing," 2024 (supported by NRF-2023S1A5A8082955).
"Non-Separable Ranking Methods Based on Platform Ratings," 2024.
Books:
Equity and Diversity in College Admissions (2019) A chapter in The Future of Economic Design, Laslier, J.-F., Moulin, H., Sanver, M.R., Zwicker, W.S. (Eds.), Springer, 473-478.
공공경제학 (in Korean, "Public Economics") 제5판, 박영사 (공저: 나성린, 전영섭, 홍성훈)
Grants, Scholarships, and Awards:
National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) grant (2023S1A5A8082955) 2023-2025
Neul-purun prize, the Korean Resource Economics Association 2020
Research Scholar Grant (RSG), Vanderbilt University 2015-2016
Conibear Memorial Prize (best third-year paper), University of Rochester 2009
Graduate fellowship and tuition scholarship, University of Rochester 2006 –2011
Graduate Scholarship, Samsung Scholarship Foundation 2006 – 2010
Teaching:
Courses taught at SKKU and UoS
Mathematics for Economics
Intermediate Microeconomics
Welfare Economics
Microeconomics I (Graduate)
Public Economics (scheduled in 2023)
Courses taught at Vanderbilt University
Mathematics for Economists (PhD)
Microeconomic Theory III (PhD)
Intermediate Microeconomics
Microeconomics
Microeconomic Topics: Market Design and Resource Allocation
Professional Services
Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Theory and Econometrics, 2024-present
Associate Editor of The Korean Journal of Economic Studies, 2021- present
Referee for: Journal of Economic Theory, Theoretical Economics, Games and Economic Behavior, Review of Economic Studies, Econometrica, Social Choice and Welfare, Economic Theory, International Journal of Economic Theory, Mathematics of Operations Research, and Mathematical Social Sciences.
Dissertation committee member for: Martin Van der Linden (2017) Ying Zheng (2018) Hayri Alper Arslan (2018) Pansang Kang (2020), Chang-Yong Han (2020) Yunji Her (2021)
Conference organized:
Theory Conference in honor of John Weymark, Nashville, USA, 2019
The 14th International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Seoul, South Korea, June 2018
Vanderbilt Market Design conference, Nashville, USA, 2018
Conference and Seminar Presentations
2025:
2025 Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory Conference, Ischia, Italy
Seminar at École Polytechnique, Paris, France
Seminar at the University of Rochester, Rochester, USA
2024:
KIEA 2024 Winter conference, South Korea
Seminar at Seoul National University, South Korea
Greater Bay Area Market Design Workshop, Macau
Seminar at Yonsei University, South Korea
2023:
2023 Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory Conference, Paris, France
Seminar at Sogang University, South Korea
2022:
2022 Deakin Economic Theory Workshop, Melbourne, Australia
CDJ Summer Workshop on Fair Allocation Mechanism, South Korea
2022 Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory Conference, Canberra, Australia (online)
2022 Conference on Mechanism and Institution Design, Singapore (online)
Seminar at the Korean Econometric Society, Micro Theory, South Korea
Invited lecture at the Center for Distributive Justice, Seoul National University, South Korea (online)
2021:
Seminar at U of Seoul, South Korea (online)
Seminar at KAIST, Seoul, South Korea (online)
2020:
Seminar at ISER, Osaka University, Japan (online)
Seminar at Kyunghee University, Seoul, South Korea
Seminar at Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea (online)
Conference organized by the Korean Resource Economics Association (online)
2019:
Seminar at Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea
2019 NSF/CEME Decentralization conference, Ann Arbor, USA
2018
Seminar at University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Honolulu, USA
Seminar at University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
Midwest Economic Theory Conference, Nashville, USA
Ottawa Microeconomic Theory Workshop, Ottawa, Canada
Asia Meeting of the Econometric Society, Seoul, South Korea
The 14th International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Seoul, South Korea
Vanderbilt Market Design conference, Nashville, USA
2017
2017 Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory conference, Faro, Portugal
Society for Economic Design Conference, York, UK
2016
Seminar at Stanford University (market design group), Stanford, USA
Seminar at University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Seminar at Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Seminar at Texas A&M University, College Station, USA
2016 Asia Meeting of the Econometric Society, Kyoto, Japan
The 17th Korean Economic Association International Conference, Seoul, South Korea
Conference on Market Design and Micro Theory, Seoul, South Korea
The 13th International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Lund, Sweden
2016 NSF/CEME Decentralization conference, Providence, USA
2015
Seminar at Boston College, Boston, USA
Society for Economic Design Conference, Istanbul, Turkey
2014
Seminar at University of Illinois, Urbana, USA
The 12th International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Boston, USA
2013
Seminar at Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey
Seminar at Universite Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium
Seminar at Paris School of Economics, Paris, France
2012
“Matching in the EU: Market Failures and Solutions”, Bellaterra, Spain
Seminar at University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Seminar at Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany
Seminar at University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Seminar at Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, USA
Seminar at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA
Seminar at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
2011
The 7th Spanish-Italian-Netherlands Game Theory Meeting, Paris, France
International Conference of the 22nd Game Theory Festival, Stony Brook, USA
Society for Economic Design Conference, Montreal, Canada
Seminar at Columbia University, New York, USA
Seminar at Rice University, Houston, USA
2010
International Young Economists’ Conference, Osaka, Japan
The 10th International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Moscow, Russia
2009
Market Design, Networks, and Information, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
2008
The 9th International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Montreal, Canada
2006
The 8th International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Istanbul, Turkey