Dr. Kyungsik NAM

Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor in the Division of Climate Change at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS), specializing in Structural and Distributional Modeling of Climate and Energy Risk.

My Research Fields are

Academic: Climate & Energy Econometrics, Applied Time-series Econometrics, Environmental and Resource Economics
Policy: Electricity Markets, Energy Efficiency and Demand-side Management Program, Energy Demand and Price, Nuclear Power Policy, Carbon Neutrality, ODA

My Recent Teaching Courses are

- Introduction to Climate Economics (Spring 2026)
- Statistical Analysis of Climate Change (Spring 2026)

Contact Information

E-mail: ksnam@hufs.ac.kr (university), norandom83@gmail.com (personal)
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CBtxXg0AAAAJ&hl=en
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kyungsik-Nam
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-kyungsik-nam/

For more information,

my Curriculum Vitae is linked to [here].

HUFS's Undergraduate Research Club is linked to [Earth's Axis].

Working Papers

1. Sectoral Vulnerability to Climate Change: Distributional Evidence from Spatially Heterogeneous Economies (with Won-Ki Seo).

2. Optimal Incentive Design for Truthful Reporting in B2B Electricity Saving Platforms (with Yeji Lim and Seongwon Yang).

3. Functional Regression with Nonstationarity and Error Contamination: Application to the Economic Impact of Climate Change (with Won-Ki Seo). (Under Review)

4. Evaluating Consumer Utility and Energy Efficiency Pricing (with Yeji Lim). (Under Review)

5. Pre-screening Statistics for Electricity Demand Response Markets (with Myongji Cho, Minho Lee, and Sangkyu Park).

6. Overcoming the Demand Response Chasm (with Yerim Rieu and Sangkyu Park).

Publications in Refereed Journals

13. Nonlinear Temperature Sensitivity of Residential Electricity Demand: Evidence from a Distributional Regression Approach (with Won-Ki Seo), Energy Economics, 153: 109076, 2026.

12. Designing a Demand Response in the Electricity Market for Social Welfare Maximization (with Seongwon Yang and Chang Sik Kim, in Korean), Journal of Economic Theory and Econometrics, 36(4): 27–48, 2025.

11. Powering Profits: Second-Degree Price Discrimination for Time-Sensitive Electricity Consumers (with Yeji Lim and Steven Chen), Applied Economics, 1-20, 2025.

10. Evaluating Climate Change Vulnerabilities in the ASEAN Service Sector (with Ingul Baek and Seonyong Kim), Climate Change Economics, 16(4): 2550014, 2025.

9. Energy Efficiency Pricing in Regulated Electricity Markets (with Guiyoung Jin and Yeji Lim), Energy Economics, 145: 108406, 2025.

8. Time-heterogeneous Impacts of Global Temperature Cycle on World Business Cycle, Journal of Applied Economics, 27(1), 2024.

7. Welfare Effects of Electricity Price Distortion (with Jinyoung Jeong, in Korean), Journal of Korean Economic Studies, 42(2): 5-34, 2024.

6. Modeling Peak Electricity Demand: A Semiparametric Approach Using Weather-Driven Cross Temperature Response Functions (with J. Isaac Miller), Energy Economics, 114: 106291, 2022.

5. Investigating the Effect of Climate Uncertainty on Global Commodity Markets, Energy Economics, 96: 105123, 2021.

4. Policy Study for Unified Energy Supply and Demand Statistics based on the Case of East and West Germany (with Sungjae Lee, in Korean), Korean Energy Economic Review, 20(1): 25-52, 2021.

3. Nonlinear Cointegrating Regression of the Earth's Surface Mean Temperature Anomalies on Total Radiative Forcing, Econometrics, 9(1): 6, 2021.

2. Dating Hiatuses: A Statistical Model of the Recent Hiatus in Global Warming - and the Next One (with J. Isaac Miller), Earth System Dynamics, 11(4): 1123-1132, 2020.

1. Nonlinearity between CO2 Emission and Economic Development: Evidence from a Functional Coefficient Panel Approach (with Sungro Lee and Hocheol Jeon), Sustainability, 12(24): 10258, 2020.

Other Publications (Publicly Available Only)

- International Cooperation Strategies between the Republic of Korea and Indonesia in Energy Efficiency, KDI Research Report, 2024 (in Korean).

- A Study on Strengthening the Demand Response Market Using a Data-Driven Bottom-Up Approach (3/3) (with Sangkyu Park), KEEI Research Report, 2023 (in Korean).

- A Study on Strengthening the Demand Response Market Using a Data-Driven Bottom-Up Approach (2/3) (with Sangkyu Park), KEEI Research Report, 2022 (in Korean).

- A Study on Strengthening the Demand Response Market Using a Data-Driven Bottom-Up Approach (1/3) (with Sangkyu Park), KEEI Research Report, 2021 (in Korean).

- Analysis on Daily Peak Demand of Electricity, KEEI Research Report, 2020 (in Korean).

- Nuclear Power Plants in the U.S. under Climate Risk, World Nuclear Power Market Insight, December 4, 2020 (in Korean).

- Analyzing the Effects of Energy Price Distortion on Energy Consumption Efficiency (with Kwangsoo Park), KEEI Research Report, 2019 (in Korean).

External Research Service

- Development of a RAG System and Question Network Analysis Methodology for Identifying Potential Issues, Korea Energy Economics Institute (KEEI), October 2025 - February 2026

- Policy Analysis of Tiered Subsidy Schemes by Customer Contract Category, Korea Electric Power COrporation (KEPCO), May 2025 - August 2025

- Establishing Optimal Demand Bidding Strategies through Elastic Demand Management, Korea Electric Power COrporation (KEPCO), February 2025 - February 2026

- Time Series Forecasting of Mobile Data Traffic, Korea Information Society Development Institute (KISDI), January 2025 - February 2025

- Indonesia's Energy Efficiency Strategy for the Goal of Carbon Neutrality, Korea Development Institute (KDI), May 2024 - December 2024