Research
Publications
“The Cleanup of US Manufacturing through Pollution Offshoring” (with Jay Hyun, Gueyon Kim, and Ziho Park), Journal of International Economics, 2025, vol 154, 104046
“Bound by Ancestors: Immigration, Credit Frictions, and Global Supply Chain Formation” (with Jay Hyun and Ziho Park), Journal of International Economics, 2024, vol 147, 103855
“Tariffs, Agricultural Subsidies, and the 2020 US Presidential Election” (with Sunghun Lim), American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2023, vol 105, issue 4, pp 1149-1175
“Offshoring, Matching, and Income Inequality”, Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2023, vol 106, 102846
“Anxiety or Pain? The Impact of Tariffs and Uncertainty on Chinese Firms in the Trade War” (with Felipe Benguria, Deborah Swenson, and Mingzhi Xu), Journal of International Economics, 2022, vol 137, 103608
“Global Influences on Gender Inequality: Evidence from Female Employment in Korea” (with Theresa Greaney), International Economic Review, 2022, vol 63, issue 1, pp 291-328
“Two-Sided Heterogeneity, Endogenous Sharing, and International Matching Markets”, Economic Theory, 2021, vol 72, issue 2, pp 473-509
“The Labor Market Effects of the China Syndrome: Evidence from South Korean Manufacturing” (with Mingzhi Xu), World Economy, 2020, vol 43, issue 11, pp 3039-3087
“The Global Value Chain under Imperfect Capital Markets”, World Economy, 2020, vol 43, issue 2, pp 484-505
“Two-sample Instrumental Variable Regressions with Potentially Weak Instruments” (with Shu Shen), Stata Journal, 2019, vol 19, issue 3, pp 581-597
“Offshoring and Skill Overlap: An Empirical Investigation”, Review of International Economics, 2019, vol 27, issue 4, pp 1199-1233
“Weak-instrument Robust Inference for Two-sample Instrumental Variables Regression” (with Jiaying Gu and Shu Shen), Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2018, vol 33, issue 1, pp 109-125
Working Papers
“Downard Nominal Wage Rigidity, Fixed Exchange Rates, and Unemployment: Evidence from a Quasi Natural Experiment” (with JaeBin Ahn and Ivan Rivadeneyra)
“Environmental Regulation, Induced Innovation, and Greener Transition: Firm-level Evidence” (with Sunghoon Chung and Manho Kang)
“Labor Market Rigidity at Home and Multinational Corporations' Flexible Production Reallocation Abroad” (with JaeBin Ahn and Sunghoon Chung), Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Development Economics
“Instrumental Variable Regression with Varying-intensity Repeated Treatments” (with Dakyung Seong and Shu Shen), Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Econometrics
“Does Protectionism Save Domestic Jobs?: New Evidence from Tariffs on Washing Machines” (with Jisoo Hong)
“Bilateral Investment Treaties and Cross-border M&As: Understanding Through Legal Origins” (with Seowoo Han)
“Incursion of Ethnic Diversity: The Effect of Immigration on Public Goods Provision in the U.S.” (with Yujeong Lee)
“A Tale of Two Countries: Global Value Chains, the China Trade Shock, and Labor Markets” (with Masahiro Endoh and Akira Sasahara)
“The China Shock and Internal Migration: Evidence from Bilateral Migration Flows” (with Hyoungchul Kim and Seung Hoon Lee)
“The Role of City Minimum Wage in Firm's Entry and Exit Decisions during the Covid-19 Pandemic” (with Elizabeth Kwon, Seung Hoon Lee, and Ziho Park)
“Product Scope Adjustment to the China Shock: Competition at Home and Abroad” (with Seongin Hong, Jung Hur, and Manho Kang)
“Labor Market Effects of a Minimum Wage: Evidence from Ecuadorian Monthly Administrative Data” (with Ivan Rivadeneyra and Kenia Ramirez), Revise and Resubmit, Southern Economic Journal
“ESG and Matching in Global Supply Chains” (with Omrane Guedhami, Jay Hyun, Jong-Min Oh, and Hwan-Jin Yong)
“Ostrom Meets the Pandemic: Lessons from Asian Rice Farming Traditions” (with Sunghun Lim)