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Contact: ymkoh@korea.ac.kr
CAREER
Associate Professor, Korea University (2025 - Present)
Associate Professor, University of Seoul (2022 - 2025)
(Parental leave - Spring 2025 )
(Sabbatical leave - Spring 2024)
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:
"Subway, Collaborative Matching, and Innovation" [Appendix]
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"
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"
with Gea M. Lee, Research Policy, 2023, Volume 52, Issue 1.
"Dissolution Risk and Legislative Effort of Politicians"
with Yuri Matsumura and Ken Onishi, Electoral Studies, 2022, Volume 78.
"Pretrial Justice Reform and Black-White Difference in Employment"
with Jung K. Kim, Applied Economics, 2022, Volume 54, Issue 12, pp.1396 -1414.
"Pretrial Justice Reform and Property Crime: Evidence from New Jersey"
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"
with Gea M. Lee, Economics Letters, November 2020, Volume 196.
"Infrastructure Investment and Travel Time"
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"
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" with Gea M. Lee and Gene Moo Lee
"R&D Investment and Collaboration under Geopolitical Tensions in Technology" with Gea M. Lee
"Transport Network and Rural–Urban Convergence in Fertility" with Jing Li and Junjian Yi
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Introductory Economics (undergrad) -- Singapore Management University, University of Seoul
Economics and Society (undergrad) -- Singapore Management University
Political Economy (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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