Hyunbae Chun

Professor, Department of Economics, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea

E-mail: hchun@sogang.ac.kr

Fields of Research:  Industrial Organization, Innovation, Productivity

CV English  Korean   

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Selected Publications

The Rise of E-Commerce and Generational Consumption Inequality: Evidence from COVID-19 in South Korea, (with Eunjee Kwon and Dongyun Yang), Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2024.

E-Commerce and Local Labor Markets: Is the Retail Apocalypse Near? (with Hailey Hayeon Joo, Jisoo Kang, and Yoonsoo Lee), Journal of Urban Economics, 2023.

Protecting Small-Scale Enterprises: Evidence from the Korean Ready-Mix Concrete Industry (with Hailey Hayeon Joo, Jisoo Kang, and Soo Hyung Kim), Review of Industrial Organization, 2023.

Productivity Dynamics in the Retail Trade Sector: The Roles of Large Modern Retailers and Small Entrants (with Janghee Cho and Yoonsoo Lee), Small Business Economics, 2023.

Cross-border Vertical Integration and Intra-firm Trade:  New Evidence from Korean and Japanese Firm-level Data (with Jung Hur, Young Gak Kim, and Hyeog Ug Kwon), Asian Economic Papers, 2017.

Intangible Investment and Changing Sources of Growth in Korea (with M. Ishaq Nadiri), Japanese Economic Review, 2016.

How Does the Entry of Large Discount Stores Increase Retail Employment? Evidence from Korea (with Janghee Cho and Yoonsoo Lee), Journal of Comparative Economics, 2015.

How Does Information Technology Improve Aggregate Productivity? A New Channel of Productivity Dispersion and Reallocation (with Jung-Wook Kim and Jason Lee), Research Policy,  2015.

Determinants of R&D Cooperation in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (with Sung-Bae Mun), Small Business Economics,  2012.

Varying Heterogeneity among U.S. Firms: Facts and Implications (with Jung-Wook Kim and Randall Morck), Review of Economics and Statistics,  2011.

Creative Destruction and Firm-Specific Performance Heterogeneity (with Jung-Wook Kim, Randall Morck, and Bernard Yeung), Journal of Financial Economics, 2008.

Decomposing Productivity Growth in the US Computer Industry (with M. Ishaq Nadiri), Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008.

Information Technology and the Demand for Educated Workers: Disentangling the Impacts of Adoption versus Use, Review of Economics and Statistics, 2003.

Why Do Married Men Earn More: Productivity or Marriage Selection? (with Injae Lee), Economic Inquiry, 2001.

Working Papers

Social Costs of Digital Platforms: Evidence from Online Food Delivery Services (with Hailey Hayeon Joo, Kanghyock Koh, and Sangwon Lee), 2024.

How Do Online Food Delivery Services Expand Restaurant Markets? (with Gong Lee, Dongyun Yang), 2022.

Does Airbnb Reshape the Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity in Cities? (with Hailey Hayeon Joo and Jaeyeon Kim), 2021.

Competing with Airbnb: Strategies of Incumbent and Entrant Hotels (with Hailey Hayeon Joo, Jaeyeon Kim, Sangkon Park, and Chamna Yoon), 2019.

China Syndrome and Local Labor Markets: Sectoral Reallocation and Job Quality,” (with Jaehong Choi, Jung Hur, and Nyeong Seon Son), 2018  (accepted at the World Economy).