CV  (pdf updated in June 2022)

Contact

• Department of Economics, 163 Seoulsiripdaero, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, South Korea (02504)

• 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 

• "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:

• "Need-blind versus Need-aware College Admissions, Financial Aid and Student Loan Programs," with In-Uck Park, 2023

• "Efficient random allocation with ordinal rules," with Samson Alva and Vikram Manjunath, 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: 

  1. Theory Conference in honor of John Weymark, Nashville, USA, 2019

  2. The 14th International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Seoul, South Korea, June 2018

  3. Vanderbilt Market Design conference, Nashville, USA, 2018

Conference and Seminar Presentations

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