School of Economics at Yonsei University

Macro/Finance Seminar

In Spring 2020, Yonsei macro-finance seminar series will be held on Monday 1:15 pm - 2:30 pm at Daewoo Hall #607 otherwise mentioned. If you want to present a macro/finance paper at the seminar, please contact Myungkyu Shim or Sangyup Choi.

For Yonsei Economics seminar series, please see here.

Upcoming seminar schedule

Spring 2020

June 15 Kyoung-Gon Kim (Korea Institute for Defense Analyses) "Vertical supply chain and the environment: the role of monetary policy in the financial crisis"

Cheolbeom Park (Korea University) "Exchange rate predictability, risk premiums and predictive system" (will be rescheduled due to COVID-19)

Jinil Kim (Korea University) "Monetary policy of the Federal Reserve" (will be rescheduled due to COVID-19)

Seung Hoon Lee (Georgia Institute of Technology) "The well-being of nations: estimating welfare from international migration" (will be rescheduled due to COVID-19)


Fall 2019

October 28 Yongsung Chang (Seoul National University) "How sticky wages in existing jobs can affect hiring"

November 11 Jay Hong (Seoul National University) "Income volatility and portfolio choices"

November 25 ByeongHwa Choi (National Taiwan University) "Trade, margins of innovative technologies, and markups"

December 6 Yun Jung Kim (Sogang University) "International capital flows: private versus public"

December 9 Eunsung Ma (Louisiana State University) "Monetary policy and inequality: how does one affect the other?"

December 16 Youngjin Yun (Bank of Korea) "International liquidity shock transmission to firms: evidence from bank-firm matched data for Korea"

December 17 Bosung Jang (Bank of Korea) "Product selection, concentration and stock returns"


Spring 2019

March 18 Kwangyong Park (Bank of Korea, Research Institute) "Uncertainty, attention allocation and monetary policy asymmetry"

April 15 Sung Je Byun (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas) "Trade liberalization, local credit supply, and amplified impacts in the financial frictions in U.S. banking industry"

May 13 Jaebin Ahn (Seoul National University, GSIS) "Bilateral trade balances and global value chains"

June 3 Jay Hyun (Columbia University) "Spillovers of regional housing market disruptions during the Great Recession: the role of product replacements by multi-market producers"

June 24 Joonseok Jason Oh (European University Institute) "The long-run effects of uncertainty shocks"

July 23 Sean Fahle (SUNY Buffalo) "Save, spend, or give? A model of housing, family insurance, and savings in old age"


Fall 2018

December 18 Sewon Hur (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland ) "Firm entry and exit and aggregate growth"

December 7 JungJae Park (National University of Singapore) "Social norms and fertility"


1st Yonsei macro-finance mini-conference was held on June 18, 2019 at Daewoo Hall. Please find attached the program schedule.