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Contact: ymkoh@korea.ac.kr
CAREER
Associate Professor, Korea University (2025 - Present)
Associate Professor, University of Seoul (2022 - 2025)
Assistant Professor, University of Seoul (2021 - 2022)
Assistant Professor, Singapore Management University (2015 - 2022)
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Economics, University of Pennsylvania (2010 - 2015)
B.A., Economics, Seoul National University (2005 - 2009)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Public Economics, Economics of Innovation, Urban Economics, Political Economy
PUBLICATIONS:
"Business Licensing and Local Business Dynamics: Evidence from Chicago"
Economics Letters, 2026, Volume 262.
"Subway, Collaborative Matching, and Innovation" [Appendix]
co-authored with Jing Li and Jianhuan Xu , The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2025, 107 (2): 476–493.
"Young Women in Cities: Urbanization and Gender-biased Migration"
co-authored with Jing Li, Yifan Wu, Junjian Yi, and Hanzhe Zhang, Journal of Development Economics, 2025, Volume 172.
[A link to SMU City Perspectives column]
"R&D Subsidies in Permissive and Restrictive Environment: Evidence from Korea"
co-authored with Gea M. Lee, Research Policy, 2023, Volume 52, Issue 1.
"Dissolution Risk and Legislative Effort of Politicians"
co-authored with Yuri Matsumura and Ken Onishi, Electoral Studies, 2022, Volume 78.
"Pretrial Justice Reform and Black-White Difference in Employment"
co-authored with Jung K. Kim, Applied Economics, 2022, Volume 54, Issue 12, pp.1396 -1414.
"Pretrial Justice Reform and Property Crime: Evidence from New Jersey"
co-authored with Jung K. Kim, Applied Economics, 2021, Volume 53, Issue 6, pp.663-675.
"A Ricardian rationale for the WTO rules on R&D subsidies"
co-authored with Gea M. Lee, Economics Letters, November 2020, Volume 196.
"Infrastructure Investment and Travel Time"
co-authored with Gea M. Lee, Economics Letters, February 2020, Volume 187.
"Universalism and the Value of Political Power"
International Economic Review, August 2018, Volume 59, Issue 3, pp.1375-1402.
"The Informal Economy and Bribery in North Korea"
co-authored with Byung-Yeon Kim, Asian Economic Papers, Fall 2011, Vol.10, No.3, pp. 104-117.
WORKING PAPERS
"Price Competition and Active or Inactive Consumer Search" co-authored with Gea M. Lee and Gene Moo Lee
"R&D Investment and Collaboration under Geopolitical Tensions in Technology" co-authored with Gea M. Lee
Revise & Resubmit, Research Policy
"Transport Network and Rural–Urban Convergence in Fertility" co-authored with Jing Li and Junjian Yi
"Felony Thresholds, Theft, and Local Business Activity" co-authored with Songman Kang
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Introductory Economics (undergrad) -- Singapore Management University, University of Seoul
Political Economy and Policy Analysis (undergrad) -- University of Seoul
Public Finance (undergrad, grad) -- University of Seoul
Industrial Organization (undergrad) -- University of Seoul
Capstone Seminar in Economics (undergrad) -- University of Seoul
Urban Economics and Public Policy (undergrad) -- Korea University
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