Sung Hun Choi (Connecticut)

Dear KAEA Members, The information for our next seminar is as follows. Please note that the seminar is going to be on Tuesday, as opposed to the usual Thursday this time because on Thursday we will have the KAEA Job Market Conference. Date/Time: November 1st at 8pm ET (November 2nd at 9am KST) Presenter: Sung Hoon Choi (University of […]

KAEA Macro VSS Time: Thursday, Nov 10 8:00PM Eastern Time (10:00AM Friday in Korea) Speaker: Hyejin Park (University of Montreal) Paper: "Does Growth Lead to Labor Reallocation? Role of Own-Product Improvement vs. Product Expansion" I study the relationship between long-run growth and labor reallocation when incumbent producers both innovate over their previous products (own-product improvements) […]

Program: Diagnostic Business Cycles 8-8:30pm: mentor-presenter – Francesco Bianchi, Johns Hopkins University, CEPR & NBER 8:30–8:45pm: mentee-discussant – Eunsung Ma, Yonsei University 8:45-9pm: Q&A 9-9:15pm: breakout sessions for more Q&A and networking Zoom link:  https://yonsei.zoom.us/j/95206398679?pwd=NlZqRU9KV1RjMkdOczl2WmpxaFhYZz09 I look forward to seeing you at the seminar. Best wishes, KAEA-VSS-Empirical Macro- Finance organizers Yoosoon Chang, Soojin Jo, and Minchul Shin

Date/Time: November 22 (Tuesday) at 8 pm ET (10 am KST Wed).  Speaker: Professor Minji Bang (CUHK) Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/93672325988 Title: Job Flexibility and Household Labor Supply: Understanding Gender Gaps and the Child Wage Penalty KAEA Applied Micro Organizers Jay Choi, Yujung Hwang, Eunhee Lee

Program Title: Capital Account Policy, Firm-Dynamics, and Export-Led Growth Presenter: Ju Hyun Pyun (Korea University Business School) Discussant: Kei-Mu Yi (University of Houston, FRB Dallas and NBER) Zoom link to the seminar: https://iu.zoom.us/j/88583184890

Date/Time: December 1st at 8pm ET (December 2nd at 10am KST) Presenter: Jihye Jeon (Boston University) Title: Patient Costs and Physicians' Information Abstract: In response to rising health costs, insurers have increased the share of health spending that their enrollees must shoulder out-of-pocket. We study how sensitive physicians' treatment choices are to these changing patient out-of-pocket costs and how […]