Department of Economics

Sogang University

1 Shinsu-Dong, Mapo-Gu

Seoul 121-742

Korea

Contact Information

Tel: +82-2-705-8518

Fax: +82-2-704-8599

Email: ecsjhur@sogang.ac.kr

EDUCATION

1995-2001        Ph.D. in Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

1993-1995        M.A. in Economics, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea

1987-1993        B.A. in Economics, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea

 

ACADEMIC POSITION

2008-present      Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea

2001-2008        Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore, Singapore

 

FIELDS OF RESEARCH

International Trade, Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics

 

PUBLICATIONS IN JOURNALS

"Effects of Hub-and-Spoke free trade agreements on trade: A panel data analysis" (with Joseph D. Alba and Donghyun Park), World Development, Forthcoming.

"Outsourcing, labor productivity, and wage inequality in the US: A primal approach" (with Aekapol Chongvilaivan), Applied Economics, Forthcoming.

"Labor Standards, Labor-Management Bargaining and International Rivalry" (with Laixun Zhao), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, vol. 71. no. 2. Aug. 2009, pp. 259-272.

"Outsourcing types, relative wages, and the demand for skilled workers: New evidence from US manufacturing" (with Aekapol Chongvilaivan and Yohanes Eko Riyanto), Economic Inquiry, vol. 47. no. 1. Jan. 2009, pp. 18-33.

"Small hubs, large spokes and overlapping free trade agreements" (with Soo Yuen Chong), World Economy, vol. 31. no. 12. Dec. 2008, pp. 1625-1665.

"Economic Geography in the presence of preferential trade agreements: An empirical analysis of OECD data", (with Donghyun Park and Joseph Dennis Alba), Applied Economics,  vol. 40. no. 8. Apr. 2008, pp. 1031-1041.

 

"Time-inconsistent domestic environmental policies and optimal international environmental arrangements", (with Aekapol Chongvilaivan), Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, vol. 163. no.4. Dec. 2007, pp. 731-758.

 

"Finance and trade: A cross-country empirical analysis on the impact of financial development and asset tangibility on international trade", (with Yohanes Eko Riyanto and Manoj Raj), World Development, vol. 34. no.10. Oct. 2, 2006 , pp. 1728-1741

 

"Tariff policy and exhaustion of intellectual property rights in the presence of parallel imports", (with Yohanes Eko Riyanto), Oxford Economic Papers, vol. 58. no. 3. Jul. 3, 2006, pp. 549-568

 

"Preferential tariff policy, product quality and welfare", Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics, vol. 47. no. 2. Dec. 1, 2006, pp. 197-217

 

"Welfare implication of RTAs within the WTO system in the presence of FDI", (with Donghyun Park), Open Economies Review, vol. 15. no. 1. Jan. 1, 2004, pp. 87-103

 

PUBLICATIONS IN KOREAN JOURNALS, BOOK CHAPTERS, AND E-JOURNALS

"What kinds of countries have more free trade partner countries?: Count regression analysis", (with Backhoon Song), Journal of Korea Trade, Forthcoming.

"Eductional implications of school systems at different stages of schooling", (with Changhui Kang), Journal of Economic Development, vol. 34. no. 2. Dec. 1, 2009, pp. 185-218 

"FTA Influence on trade creation and diversion by regional trading blocs", (with Keembiyahettige Nandasiri), The Journal of the Korean Economy, vol. 9. no. 2. Aug. 1, 2008, pp. 293-333 

"Chapter 3: An empirical test for effects of trade openness in Korea", in Korea’s International Trade Policy: Past, Present and Future (written in Korean), edited by Kwon, Youngmin, Korea Economy Research Institute, Dec. 9, 2004, pp. 95-149

"Effects of regional free trade agreements on industrial structure: an extension of Krugman's economic geography model (1991)", Journal of Economic Integration, vol. 18. no. 1. Mar. 1, 2003, pp. 42-59

"Export under an import substitution trade regime: an alternative view", (with Donghyun Park), Economics Bulletin, vol. 6. no. 5. Nov. 4, 2002, pp. 1-7