CV

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Employment

• Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Central Washington University, Sep. 2020 - Current.

Education

• Ph.D. in Economics, University of Washington - Seattle, 2020
• M.A. in Economics, University of Washington - Seattle, 2015
• M.A. in Economics, Seoul National University, 2013
• B.A. in Economics, Yonsei University, 2011

Research and Teaching Fields

Macroeconomics, international macroeconomics, labor market, structural reforms, entrepreneurship

Journal Publications

Drafts are available under the Research tab.

• “Reducing the United States’ Risks of Dependency on China in the Rare Earth Market,” with Tennecia Dacass, accepted at Resources Policy (2022).
• “Reflections on the Volcker Rule: Innovations in the Financial Services Industry and Fixing Too Big to Succeed,” with Koushik Ghosh, Challenge (2022): 1-10.
• “Financial Market Integration, Exchange Rate Policy, and the Dynamics of Business and Employment in Korea,” with Matteo Cacciatore and Fabio Ghironi, NBER Chapter in: International Finance in the Global Markets, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 42 (December 2016, lead article): 79-99.

Working Papers

• “Excessive Firm Turnover in the Shadow of Unemployment.”
• “Do Conference Calls Reduce Information Asymmetry When Bad News is Released?” with Han Donker (CWU).
• “Sexual Harassment Training Laws and ESG Performance” with Jaap Donker (CWU) and Toni Sipic (CWU).
• “Trade Liberalization and Structural Reforms Under Self-Employment.”
• “Measuring Political Regimes in Economic Growth”.
• “Growth, Unemployment, and the Public Sector.”

Other Publications

• Principles of Macroeconomics Workbook, Kendall Hunt, 2022. (Link)

Teaching Experience

• Central Washington University
  • ECON 130 Foundations for Business Analytics
  • ECON 202 Principles of Economics Macro
  • ECON 330 Money and Banking
  • ECON 402 Intermediate Macroeconomics Analysis
• University of Washington - Seattle
  • Instructor, ECON 201 Introduction to Macro
  • Instructor, ECON 301 Intermediate Macroeconomics
  • Internship Instructor, ECON 399 Internship
  • Teaching Assistant, B ECON 500 Introduction to Business Economics (MBA course)
  • Teaching Assistant, FIN 423 Banking and the Financial System
• Seattle University
  • Adjunct Faculty, ECON 2100 Business Statistics
• Shoreline Community College
  • Adjunct Faculty, ECON&202 Macroeconomics
• Seoul National University
  • Teaching Assistant, ECON 212.202 Macroeconomics

Research Experience

• Research Assistant for Dr. Hongsoo Kim, 02/2013 – 05/2013
  • Health Services Research and Gerontology Lab, Department of Public Health Science, Seoul National University, Korea
• Research Assistant for Professor Soyoung Kim, 03/2011 - 02/2013
  • Department of Economics, Seoul National University, Korea
• Research Assistant (Intern), POSCO Research Institute (POSRI), Korea, 01/2010 - 02/2010

Professional and Service Activities

• Conferences and Presentations
  • 2024: European Accounting Association (EAA) 46th Annual Congress (Bucharest, Romania), Invited Talk at the University of Jordan (Amman, Jordan), Pacific Northwest Regional Economic Conference (PNREC; Bend, OR), Eastern Economic Association (EEA) 50th Annual Conference (Boston, MA), 20th Annual Economic Outlook Conference (Ellensburg, WA)
  • 2023: Pacific Northwest Regional Economic Conference (PNREC; Walla Walla, WA), 19th Annual Economic Outlook Conference (Ellensburg, WA), Korean Economic Review International Conference (KERIC; Yeosu, Korea)
  • 2022: Kittitas Chamber of Commerce Economic Summit (Ellensburg, WA), 97th Western Economic Association International (WEAI) Annual Conference (Portland, OR), CSWEP CeMENT Workshop (Online)
  • 2021: ASSA 2021 Poster Session (Online)
  • 2020: Korean Economic Review International Conference (KERIC), Southern Economic Association (SEA) 90th Annual Meeting (Invited)
  • 2018: T. S. Kim Seminar, Seoul National University (Seoul, Korea)

• Refereeing for peer-reviewed journals: Macroeconomic Dynamics; Emerging Markets Finance and Trade; Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research; International Journal of Corporate Governance (IJCG); International Journal of Accounting & Information Management (IJAIM)

• Committees and Other Services
  • Assurance of Learning (AoL) Committee, College of Business, CWU, 09/2020-Present.
  • University Assessment Council, CWU 09/2022-Present.
  • Principle Investigator for the Student Price Index Project, 09/2021-Present.
  • CWU Faculty Advisor for the Economics Association, Economics Department, CWU, 09/2021-06/2024.
  • Library Advisory Council, CWU 07/2022-06/2023.