Kwan Yong Lee

ECON 202: Principles of Macroeconomics

ECON 210: Introduction to Business and Economics Statistics 

ECON 338: International Economics

ECON 410: Empirical Methods in Economics I 

ECON 438: International Money and Finance 

ECON 524: Advanced International Economics 

ECON 596: Applied Economics Research Seminar

ECON 997: Independent Study 

International Economics, Financial Economics, Applied Econometrics

Publications

“Financial Dependence and Margins of Trade: Entrants or Incumbents?” Southern Economic Journal, forthcoming

“Domestic and Foreign Denominated Debt: Firm-level Evidence from South Korea.” International Review of Financial Analysis, 83, (2022) (with Cullen Goenner)

“Monetary Policy, COVID-19 Immunization, and Risk in the US Stock Markets.” Cogent Economics & Finance, 10(1) (2022) (with Seungho Baek)

“The Risk Transmission of COVID-19 in the US Stock Market.” Applied Economics, 53(17) (2021): 1976-1990 (with Seungho Baek)

“Robo-Advisors: Machine Learning in Trend-Following ETF Investments.” Sustainability 12, no. 16 (2020): 6399 (with Seungho Baek, Merih Uctum, and Seok Hee Oh)

“Dynamic Risk Factors in Carry Trades.” Journal of Fixed Income, 29(1) (2019): 55-75 (with Seungho Baek and Mina Glambosky)

“The Income Elasticity of Import Demand: Micro Evidence and An Application.” Journal of International Economics, 113 (2018): 20-34 (with David Hummels)

“Diversification in Korean Banking Business: Is Non-interest Income a Financial Savior?” Journal of Emerging Market Finance, (2018) (with Seungho Baek, Jeong Wan Lee, and Sunil Mohanty)

“Capital Structure and Monitoring Bank Failure.” Journal of Accounting and Finance, 15(4) (2015) (with Seungho Baek and Siva K. Balasubramanian)

Presentations

March 2021 Western Economic Association Virtual International

June 2019 Western Economic Association International, San Francisco, CA

May 2017 Midwest Economic Theory and International Trade Meetings, Lexington KY

November 2015 Sothern Economic Association Meeting, New Orleans, LA

May 2015 Midwest Macroeconomics Conference, Washington University, St. Louis, MO

August 2014 BK 21 Plus Seminar in Food &Resource Economics Department at Korea University, Seoul, Korea

May 2014 Canadian Economics Association, Vancouver, Canada

March 2014 Eastern Economics Association Meeting, Boston MA

October 2013 Midwest Economic Theory and International Trade Meetings, Ann Arbor MI

January 2013 American Economic Association Meeting, San Diego

November 2011 Southern Economic Association Meeting, Washington DC

Ph.D., Economics, Purdue University, August 2013

Dissertation: Essays on The Role of Income in Trade

Committee: David Hummels (Chair), Kanda Naknoi, Chong Xiang, John Barron

M.A., Economics, North Carolina State University, May 2008

B.A., Economics, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, August 2006