Yonsei Macro Meeting
We are a group of researchers who are Yonsei University Alumni (and/or faculty members) and whose research interests lie in macroeconomics or related fields. We always welcome new participants and voluntary presenters!
In the Yonsei Macro Meeting, we study current and important topics in macroeconomics and related fields. We hold regular seminar series and workshops.
The meeting is mainly held online via zoom. Please contact Joonkyu Choi (joonkyu.choi@frb.gov) or Myungkyu Shim (myungkyushim@yonsei.ac.kr) if you are interested in joining this meeting and would like to receive information on the seminar.
This meeting is financially supported by Yonsei Economic Research Fund (R. K. Cho Research Cluster Program).
Meeting history and future schedule:
2021/04/28 (Wednesday, 10am KST): Kwangyong Park (Bank of Korea) "Debt maturity and government spending multiplier under imperfect information environment"
2021/07/07 (Wednesday, 10am KST): Gwangmin Kim (UT Austin, phd candidate) "Inflation Inequality and Product Life Cycle"
2021/08/25 (Wednesday, 10am KST): Jaedo Choi (U of Michigan, phd candidate) "Technology Adoption and Late Industrialization (with Younghoon Shim)"
2021/09/29 (Wednesday, 10am, KST): Joonkyu Choi (FRB) "Political Connections, Allocation of Government Spending, and the Jobs Multiplier (with Veronika Penciakova and Felipe Saffie)"
2021/10/28 (Thursday, 10am, KST): Jongho Park (Soongsil University), "U.S. Monetary Policy Spillover to Emerging Economy Corporate Bond Market (with Heedong Kim)"
2021/11/24 (Wednesday, 9am, KST): Joonseok Oh (FUB), "Optimal Monetary Policy Mix at the Zero Lower Bound (with Dario Bonciani)"
2022/02/04 (Friday, 10am, KST): Chanwoo Kim (Bank of Korea), "Markups, Customer Base, and Firm Dynamics"
2022/04/01 (Friday, 10am, KST): Youngjin Yun (Inha University), "International Liquidity Risk and Bank Resilience: Evidence from Matched Bank-Firm Data (with Youngjoo Kim and Hyunjoon Lim)
2022/06/10 (Friday, 9am, KST): Yonsei Young Macroeconomist Workshop
09:00-09:45 : Changseok Ma (UT Austin, phd candidate), "Firm Liquidity and the Innovations Channel of Monetary Policy"
09:45-10:30 : Younghoon Shim (U of Chicago, phd candidate), "From Imitator to Innovator: Appropriate Technology Policy in Developing Countries (with Jaedo Choi)"
10:45-11:30 : David Jang (UT Austin, phd candidate), "Declining Labor Turnover and Increasing Intensive Marin of Labor Adjustment"
11:30-12:15 : Jinyoung Seo (UC Davis, phd candidate), "Nowhere to Hide: Time-Varying Inflation Target and Bond Market Risk"2022/07/22 (Friday, 10am, KST): Minki Kim (UCSD, phd candidate), "Childhood Infectious Disease and Development"
2022/08/11 (Thursday, 10am, KST): Sunghwan Kim (OSU, phd candidate), "Is Student Loan Forgiveness Really Helping the Poor?"
2022/09/05 (Monday, 10am, KST): Heechul Jung (BU, phd candidate), "The Rise of Intangibles and Financing Frictions"
2022/12/07 (Wednesday, 10am, KST): Shinhyuk Kang (KLI), "Regular and non-regular workers substitutability and policy implications in South Korea"
2023/02/28 (Tuesday, 10am, KST): Seungyub Han (UCLA, phd student), "The Effect of Housing on Portfolio Choice: House Price Risk and Liquidity Constraint"
2023/03/31 (Friday, 10am, KST): Chansik Yoon (Princeton University, phd student), "Is Chinese Development Finance a Boon or a Bane?"
2023/06/30 (Friday, 10am, KST): Jeong Won Son (Johns Hopkins University, phd candidate), "Exchange rate policies and sectoral tradeoffs"
2023/09/01 (Friday, 9:30am, KST): Jinyoung Seo (UC Davis, phd candidate), "The Determinants of Bond-Stock Correlation: the Role of Trend Inflation and Monetary Policy"
2023/10/04 (Wednesday, 10am, KST): Jongsoo Kim (Yonsei University, phd student), "Is government spending effective when needed?"
2023/11/08 (Wednesday, 10am, KST): Seungyub Han (UCLA, phd candidate), "Housing Rent, Inelastic Housing Supply, and International Business Cycles"
2024/02/28 (Wednesday, 10am, KST): Sangheon Ahn (Yonsei University, MA student), "ICT Innovations and Labor Hours: A Business Cycle Analysis"
2024/04/03 (Wednesday, 10am, KST): Myunghwan Lee (NYU, phd student), "Media Bias and Household Expectations: Evidence from Survey Experiments"
2024/04/24 (Wednesday, 10am, KST): Younghoon Shim (IMF), "Superstars of supervillains? Large firms in the South Korean growth miracle"