Employment:

• Assistant Professor in Economics, University of Rochester, July 2006 - present

Education:

• Ph.D. in Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 2006
  Dissertation: “ Essays on Life Insurance and Household Decisions”
  Advisor: José-Víctor Ríos-Rull
• Graduate School in Economics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, 1997
• B.A. in Economics, summa cum laude, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, 1997

Fields of Interests :

• Research:
  Macroeconomics, Quantitative Macroeconomics Theory, Family Economics, Social Insurance
• Teaching:
  Macroeconomics, Computational Economics, Family and Demographics

Research Papers:

1. “Social Security, Life Insurance and Annuities for Families,” (with José-Víctor Ríos-Rull), Journal of Monetary Economics, (Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series), 54(1), 2007.
2. “Life Insurance and the Value of Spouses: Labor Supply vs. Household Production,”.
3. “Constrained Efficiency in the Neoclassical Growth Model with Uninsurable Idiosyncratic Shocks,” (with Julio Dávila, Per Krusell, & José-Víctor Ríos-Rull).
4. “Life Insurance and Household Consumption,” (with José-Víctor Ríos-Rull).
5. “Do Technological Improvements in the Manufacturing Sector Raise or Lower Employment?,” (with Yongsung Chang), American Economic Review, 96(1), 2006.

Research in Progress:

• “Small Fluctuations and Jobless Recovery and Changing Occupations,” (with Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis).
• “The Role of Unemployment Risk for Aggregate Dynamics During the Great Depression,” (with Satyajit Chatterjee).
• “Firm Size Distribution along the Business Cycle,” (with Árpád Ábrahám, & Eva Carceles-Poveda).

Grants, Honors and Awards:

• Young Scholar Award, Korea-America Economic Association, 2008
• Graduate Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 2001
• KFAS Scholarship, the Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies, 2000-2005
• Award for Academic Excellence, Seoul National University, 1997
• Department Fellowship, Seoul National University, 1996

Professional Activities:

• Referee: American Economic Review; Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control; Review of Economic Studies; Journal of Public Economic Theory; International Economic Review; Journal of Monetary Economics; Review of Economic Dynamics.
• Conference: Carnegie-Rochester Conference on Public Policy (2006); Murray S. Johnson Memorial Conference, the University of Texas at Austin (2005); NBER Summer Institutes (2003)
• Committee: University of Rochester Research Computing Committee (2006-present)

Students:

• Ricardo M. Santos, Committee Member, 2009, ITAM
• Juan M. Sanchez, Committee Member, 2008, Richmond Fed.

Research and Teaching Experience:

• Instructor, Intermediate Macroeconomics (U), Rochester, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009
• Instructor, Macroeconomics I (G), Rochester, Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2008
• Instructor, Topics in Macroeconomics (G), Rochester, Spring 2007, Spring 2008
• Instructor, Quantitative Macroeconomics (G), Rochester, Fall 2008
• Teaching Assistant, Econometrics II (G), Penn, Spring 2002 and Spring 2003
• Teaching Assistant, Intermediate Macroeconomics (U), Penn, Fall 2002
• Research Assistant for Professor José-Víctor Ríos-Rull, Penn, 2002 - 2003
• Senior Economic Analyst, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, 2003 - 2005

Additional Skills:

• Languages: Korean, English
• Extensive programming experience in: FORTRAN, parallel computing (MPI), STATA, MATLAB, GAUSS and EVIEWS

Personal:

• US Permanent Resident (Citizenship: Korean)
• Married, one child