Jai-Won  Ryou

PROFILE

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  Education

• Ph.D. in Economics, Yale University, 1989

• M.Phil. in Economics, Yale University, 1986

• B.A. in Economics, Seoul National University, 1982

 

  Academic Positions

• 2016.9 - 2018.8               Provost and Executive Vice President, Konkuk University

• 2015.8 - 2016.8               Dean of the Graduate School, Konkuk University

• 2009.1 - 2009.6               Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge University

• 2006.4 - 2006.12             Visiting Research Fellow, Korea Institute for International Economic Policy

• 2004.4 - 2004.9               Visiting Research Fellow, Institute for Monetary and Economic Research, BOK

• 2001.1 - 2001.12             Visiting Research Fellow, Economic Growth Center, Yale University 

• 1993. 3 - present             Professor, Department of Economics, Konkuk University.

• 1989.10 - 1993.2             Research Fellow, Korea Institute for International Economic Policy

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  Affiliations and Activities

• 2015.12 - 2016.12           President, The Korea International Economic Association (KIEA)

• 2014.7 - 2015.6               President, The Korea International Finance Association (KIFA)

• 2013.1 - 2016.8               President, Center for International Economic Studies (CIES)

• 2010.2 - 2011.2               President, The Korea Development Economics Association (KDEA)

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  Honor and Awards

• Excellent Paper Award, the Korea Association for Financial Studies, 2013.

• Grand Prize for Academic Achievement, Konkuk Univerity, 2005.

• Excellent Paper Award, the Korea Association for Financial Studies, 2000.

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​  Papers (In English)

• “Declining Fixed Investment and Increasing Financial Investment of Korean Corporations,” with Daehwan Kim and Sunhee Kim, KIEP, East Asian Economic Review, 23(4), 2019, 355-379. 

• “Effects of Japanese Quantitative Easing Policy on the Economies of Japan and Korea,” with Saang Joon Baak and Won Joong Kim, North American Journal of Economics and Finance 48, April, 2019, 241-252.

• “Global Value Chains of East Asia: Trade in Value Added and Vertical Specialization,” with T.H. Kim, Asian Economic Journal 29(2), East Asian Economic Association, 2015, 121-143.

• “Saving, Investment and Intra-national Capital Mobility in Korea," with B.H. Yoo, Review of International Money and Finance, 4(2), Korea International Financial Association, 2014, 69-100.

• “Time Preference and Saving Rate: Implications for Global Imbalances," with D.H.   Kim, Journal of Money and Finance, 26(3), Korea Money and Finance Association &Korean Institute of Finance, 2012, 61-91. 

• “Mean-Variance Efficiency of Reserve Portfolios,” with D.H. Kim, Seoul Journal of Economics,24(4), 2011, 593-612. 

• "Financial market reforms and corporate financing in Korea," with T.J. Kim and S.  Takagi, Applied Financial Economics, 20, 2010, 1659-1666.

• “What Makes International Capital Flows So Volatile? Push vs. Pull Factors in the  Case of Korea,"T.J. Kim, Journal of International Economic Studies 14(2), KIEP, 2010, 111-137.

•  “What is Driving Global Imbalances? The Global Savings Glut Hypothesis Reexamined,"    Journal of International Economic Studies, 13(2), KIEP, 2009, 1-37.

•  "Software and Information Technology Enabled Services(ITES) Industry in India:The Making of Competitiveness," with H. Panda, Reitaku International Journal of Economic Studies, 17(1), 2009, 1-17.

• "Challenges in India's Organized Manufacturing Employment during the Pre- and Post-Liberalization Periods: A Decomposition Analysis," with H. Panda, The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 50(1), 2007, 111-116.

• “Regional monetary integration in the presence of two large countries: What modality makes sense for East Asia?” with T.J.Kim and S. Takagi, Japan and the World Economy 17, 2005., 17171-187.

•  “Monetary Cooperation in East Asia: Major Issues and Future Prospects," with Yunjong   Wang, KIEP, Journal of East Asian Integration, 8(1), 2004, 3-33.

• “Overborrowing and Overinvestment in East Asia: The Case of the Korean Firms," with T.J. Kim, Korean Economic Association, The Korean Economic Review, 19(2), 2003, 327-346

•  “Transaction Costs and Welfare Effects of Currency Unions," Institute of Economic Research, Seoul National University, Seoul Journal of Economics, 15(4), 2002, 529-554.

•  "The Stock Market and Macroeconomic Policy in Emerging Market Economies: The Case of Korea," with T.J. Kim, Korean Social Science Journal, 29(1), 2002, 75-106.

•  “Korea's Overseas Direct Investment: Evaluation of Performances and Future Challenges,” with Sung-sup Rhee, Journal of Korea Trade, 4(2), the Korea Trade Research Association, 2000, 141-160.

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  Other Publications

• “The Dollar and the International Monetary System: Crisis and Reforms,” Shinji Takagi, Korea Institute for Finance, Working Paper 10-11, 2010. 

• “The Asian Bond Market: Issues and Tasks for Financial Cooperation in Northeast Asia,” with Koichi Hamada and Seung-Cheol Jeon, Jeong-Ho Hahm, Northeast Asian Economic Cooperation and the Korean Economy, Institute for Monetary and Economic Research, The Bank of Korea, 2004.

•  “The Asian Currency Crisis and the Regional Monetary System," with T. J. Kim, in R.Hooley and Jang-Hee Yoo eds., The Post-Financial Crisis Challenges for Asian Industrialization, JAI, 2002, 303-322.

•  “International Cooperation,” in Introduction to International Studies, Jang-Hee Yoo and Kye Woo Lee eds., Ewha Womans University Press, 2002.

•  “Regional Arrangements to Borrow: A Scheme for Preventing Future Asian Liquidity Crises”, with T.J.Kim and Yunjong Wang, KIEP, Policy Analyses 00-01, 2000.

•  “Regional Integration and Liberalization,” with Honggue Lee, KIEP, Policy Paper 97-02, 1997.

•  “Korea’s Foreign Direct Investment in Southeast Asia,” with Byung-Nak Song, KIEP,  Working Paper No. 93-02, 1993.

•  “Korea’s Outward Direct Foreign Investment and the Division of Labor in the Asia-Pacific,” in Hiro Lee and David W. Roland-Holst eds. Economic Development and Cooperation in the Pacific Basin, Cambridge University Press, 1998, 297-330.

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  Books (in Korean)

• International Finance and Open-Economy Macroeconomics, with T.J. Kim and C.Y. Song, 2nd edition, Dasan Books, 2020. 

• International Commerce: Policies, Rules and Negotiations, with I.S. Kang, et al., 7th edition, Pakyoungsa, 2018.

• Understanding the Korean Economy: Issues and Prospects, with I.S.Kang, et al., 2nd edition, Kyobo Books, 2008.   

• Principles of International Economics, with I.S. Kang, et al., 2nd edition, Pakyoungsa, 2005.

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