Jun Hee Kwak (곽준희)
I am an assistant professor at Sogang University, Department of Economics.
Research Interest: International Finance, Macroeconomics, and Macro-Finance
Working Papers
Corporate-Sovereign Debt Nexus and Externalities
[Revised Draft] is the theoretical part of my job market paper, distributed as a KIF Working Paper 2022-12.
[SSRN WP], [JMP Version] was covered by European Central Bank (Jan 28, 2021)
Distributional Consequences of a Higher Inflation Target with Donggyu Lee and Dohyeon Park
[Draft Available upon Request]
Macroprudential Policy Under Diagnostic Expectations with Taewoong Jo
[Draft Available upon Request]
The Effect of a Large Scale Issuance of State-Owned Company Bonds on the Corporate Bond Markets with Taewoong Jo and Yoonsoo Lee
[Draft]
A Causal Linkage: Corporate Debt and Sovereign Spreads (Revise and Resubmit)
Publications
Capital Flows and Leverage, Annual Review of Economics, 2020 with Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan
Does Trade Cause Capital to Flow? Evidence from Historical Rainfall, Journal of Development Economics, 2020 with Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan and Alex Nikolsko-Rzevhskyy
Inflation Expectations as a Monetary Policy Tool, Korean Journal of EU Studies in Korean, 2021, with Jin Ho Park
Individual Investor Trading and Stock Returns after the Covid-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Korea, Finance Research Letters, 2024
[PDF], [Journal Link], [SSRN WP], The policy report version was covered by Yonhap, Hankyung, YTN, MTN, SBS Biz, Chosun Biz.
Sectoral Credit Allocation and Interest Rate Spreads Worldwide, Applied Economics Letters, 2024
[Draft] [Journal Link]
Selected Research In Progress
Global Financial Cycles and Inequality in Emerging Economies with Donggyu Lee and Dohyeon Park
Integrated Policy Framework with Housing Sector with Daeyoung Jung
Teaching
Instructor
Undergraduate Courses (Sogang University): Macroeconmics 1 , International Economics
Graduate Course (Sogang University): Topics in International Finance and Macroeconomics
Econ 442: Globalization and Capital Markets (undergraduate), University of Maryland, Summer 2018
Teaching Assistant
Econ 330: Money and Banking (undergraduate), University of Maryland, Fall 2016 and Spring 2017
Econ 325: Intermediate Macroeconomic Analysis (undergraduate), University of Maryland, Fall 2020 and Spring 2021
Econ 423: Econometrics 2 (undergraduate), University of Maryland, Fall 2020