Curriculum Vitae

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Sungmun Choi

Associate Professor

Department of Economics

Konkuk University

Seoul, South Korea

Employment

Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Konkuk University, March 2023 - present.

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Konkuk University, March 2019 - February 2023.

Research Fellow, Korea Institute of Public Finance, July 2013 - February 2019.

Education

Princeton University, Ph.D. in Economics, May 2013

University of California, Berkeley, B.A. in Economics, Highest Honors, December 2004

Research Interests

Public Economics, Political Economy, Economic Growth and Development

Publications

• Do high-income indivudials respond to the change in the marginal tax rate? Evidence from Major League Baseball, Applied Economics Letters, 2023.

• Intergenerational mobility and voting in the presidential election: Evidence from U.S. counties, Economics Letters, 2022.

• Do interest groups reward politicians for their votes in the legislature? Evidence from the Great Recession, Applied Economics, 2020, 52(34): 3688-3699. 

• Is the current trend of income inequality sustainable?, Sustainability, 2019, 11(19) 

• Politician's ideology and campaign contributions from interest groups, Empirical Economics, 2017, 53(4): 1733-1746.

• Does past experience affect future behavior? Evidence from estate tax avoidance behavior, International Tax and Public Finance, 2017, 24(3): 416-431.

Publications in Korean

• The Effect of Political Institutions on Cyclical Behavior of Fiscal Policy, Journal of Budget and Policy, 2022, 11(4): 31-56. 

• Share of inheritance and gift in aggregate wealth in Korea, Journal of Korean Economic Development, 2022, 28(3): 71-96. 

• 10th anniversary of National Survey of Tax and Benefit: Its meaning and accomplishments, Korean Journal of Public Finance, 2018, 11(1): 1-20. 

• Preferences for redistribution and political ideology in South Korea, (with Sung Hoon Kang) Korean Journal of Public Finance, 2018, 11(4): 1-32. 

Teaching

Instructor (at Konkuk University)

     Microeconomics (Undergraduate)

     Games and Strategy (Undergraduate)

     Economics of Politics (Undergraduate)

Teaching Assistant to (at Princeton University)

     Professor Harvey Rosen, Introduction to Microeconomics, Fall 2009, Fall 2010

     Professor Marco Manacorda, Public Finance, Spring 2010

     Professor Alan Blinder, Introduction to Macroeconomics, Spring 2011

     Professor Alicia Adsera, Introduction to Macroeconomics, Spring 2012