Yong Kim

Education

• PhD Economics, 2003 London School of Economics (Advisor: Nobuhiro Kiyotaki)
• MSc Economics with Distinction London School of Economics
• BA Hons Economics Trinity College, University of Cambridge

Work experience

Henry Crown Visiting Professor, Robert Day School Claremont McKenna College

Associate Professor (on leave), School of Economics, Yonsei University

PREVIOUSLY Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Southern California

Tutorial Fellow, Department of Economics, London School of Economics

CURRENT PAPERS

1. The Price of Experience and The Level of Wages
2. Financial Institutions, Technology Diffusion and Trade, R&R
3. Experience-Labor Complementarity and Cross-country Transition Dynamics (with Hyeok Jeong), submitted
4. A Rental Discount Theory of the Rent Price Ratio, R&R

PUBLICATIONS

1. Asset Ownership, Investor Protection and Technology Adoption, Global Economic Review, 2020, 49:2.
2. Skill Accumulation in the Search Unemployment Model, Global Economic Review, 2019, 48:4, 440-462.
3. The Price of Experience (with Hyeok Jeong and Iourii Manovskii), American Economic Review, 2015, 105(2), 784-815. (NBER Working Paper 20457)
4. Complementarity and Transition to Modern Economic Growth (with Hyeok Jeong), B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, 2015, vol. 15, no. 1, 365-412.
5. Tsunami: Market Tightness and Asset Price Volatility, Global Economic Review, 2014, vol. 43, no. 4, 355-380.
6. Liquidity and Selection in Asset Markets with Search Frictions, Journal of Economic Theory and Econometrics, 2012, vol.23, no.2, 113-142.
7. Capital Reallocation and Liquidity with Search Frictions, Journal of Economic Theory and Econometrics, 2012, vol.23, no.1, 1-29.
8. Hangovers, International Economic Journal, 2012, vol. 26, no. 2, 203-218.
9. Structural Change and Green Growth in Korea, 1980-2020, KDI Journal of Economic Policy, 2012, vol. 34, no. 4, 1-26.
10. Unemployment and the Asset Market for Jobs, Korean Journal of Economics, 2012, vol. 19, no. 1.