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] 

The Causal Effects of Equity Flows: Evidence from Korea with Bada Han, Jaeyoung Lee (Submitted)

 [Draft] 

A Causal Linkage: Corporate Debt and Sovereign Spreads (Revise and Resubmit)

[Revised Draft]

Publications

Capital Flows and Leverage, Annual Review of Economics, 2020 with Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan 

[PDF] [Journal Link]

Does Trade Cause Capital to Flow? Evidence from Historical Rainfall, Journal of Development Economics, 2020 with Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan and Alex Nikolsko-Rzevhskyy 

[PDF] [Journal Link]

Inflation Expectations as a Monetary Policy Tool, Korean Journal of EU Studies  in Korean, 2021, with Jin Ho Park

[PDF] [Journal Link]

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

Teaching Assistant