Contributed Sessions I

Tuesday, July 4 (13:30-14:50 KST)                                                      

Contributed Session 1 ｜ Market and Information 1

Place : Sapphire I

Chair: Dong Chul Won (Ajou University)

• Monopoly with Product Design

presented by: Kyungmin Kim (Emory University), co-authored with Nenad Kos (Bocconi University)

• Ex-ante Information Heterogeneity in Global Games Models with Application to Team Production

presented by: Myungkyu Shim (Yonsei University), co-authored with Seongkyun Kim (Yonsei University), Doyoung Song (University of California, San Diego)

• Quasiconcave Price Effect and the Uniqueness of Equilibrium with CRRA Preferences

presented by: Dong Chul Won (Ajou University)

Contributed Session 2 ｜ Technological Changes

Place : Lily I

Chair: Hyun Park (Kyung Hee University)

• Is Software Eating the World?

presented by: Yongseok Shin (Washington University in St. Louis), co-authored with Sangmin Aum (Kyung Hee University) 

• Competition, Firm Innovation, and Growth under Imperfect Technology Spillovers

presented by: Seula Kim (University of Maryland), co-authored with Karam Jo (Korea Development Institute)

• Data, Privacy, and Artificial Intelligence

presented by: Hyun Park (Kyung Hee University), co-authored with Kyu Y. Lee (Korea Institute for International Economic Policy)

Contributed Session 3 ｜ Monetary Policy

Place : Lily II

Chair: Jae Won Lee (Seoul National University)

• Macroeconomic Effects of the US Quantitative Easing during Two Zero Lower Bound Periods

presented by: Jihye Ahn (Seoul National University), co-authored with Soyoung Kim (Seoul National University)

• The Time-Varying Response of Credit Spread Variables to Monetary Policy Shock

presented by: Do Wan Kim (Bank of Korea)

• Optimal Inflation Targeting with Cost-Push Shocks

presented by:  Jae Won Lee (Seoul National University), co-authored with Jin Shil Hong (Seoul National University), Yeji Sung (Columbia University)

Contributed Session 4 ｜ Development

Place : Grand Ballroom I

Chair: Dongyoung Kim (Korea Development Institute)

• Social Fractionalization and Economic Development: Evidence from the Korean New Village Movement

presented by: BooKang Seol (Columbia University)

• Air Pollution and Agricultural Productivity in a Developing Country

presented by: Josh Merfeld (KDI School)

• Gendered Local Labor Market Effects of Peace: Evidence from the End of the Aceh Insurgency

presented by: Dongyoung Kim (Korea Development Institute)

Contributed Session 5 ｜ Family

Place : Grand Ballroom II

Chair: Minchul Yum (University of Southampton)

• Spousal Bargaining Power and Consumption of Married Couples in the US: Evidence from Scanner Data

presented by: So Yoon Ahn (University of Illinois at Chicago), co-authored with Yu Kyung Koh (Columbia University)

• Intimate Partner Violence and Children’s Human Capital

presented by: Alexander Vickery (Royal Holloway University of London) co-authored with Gloria Moroni (Erasmus University), Dan Anderberg (Royal Holloway University of London)

• Parental Leave Policies, Fertility, and Labor Supply

presented by: Minchul Yum (University of Southampton), co-authored with Daisoon Kim (North Carolina State University)

Contributed Session 6 ｜ International Trade and Demographic Changes

Place : Sapphire II

Chair: Geoffrey Kitetu (Pukyong National University)

• Community Banks and the Mitigation of the China Shock

presented by: Seung Hoon Lee (Yonsei University), co-authored with SungJe Byun (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas), Sanghoon Lee (University of British Columbia)

• Does Political Conflict Hurt Immigration? Evidence from the South Korea–China THAAD Dispute

presented by: Hyoungchul Kim (Yonsei University), co-authored with Jongkwan Lee (Ewha University)

• Energy Efficiency of CO2 Emission Nexus in the EU: Assessing the Effect of Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism on CO2 Emission Reduction Using the GTAP-E Model

presented by: Geoffrey Kitetu (Pukyong National University), co-authored with Jong-Hwan Ko (Pukyong National University)

Special Session 1 ｜ BOK Special Session

Place : Sapphire III

Chair: Seungcheol Lee (Bank of Korea)

• The Eighty Years of the Korean Economy (1970 to 2050) and Its Future Growth Strategy

presented by: Taehyoung Cho (Bank of Korea)

• Is There an Information Channel of Monetary Policy?

presented by: Boreum Kwak (Bank of Korea), co-authored with Oliver Holtemoeller(Martin-Luther University Halle and IWH), Alexander Kriwoluzky(Freie University Berlin and DIW)

• Shocks, Frictions, and Inequality in Korean Business Cycles

presented by: Seungcheol Lee (Bank of Korea), co-authored with Ralph Luetticke (University of Tübingen, University College London and the CEPR), Morten O. Ravn (University College London and the CEPR)