Contents

• Contact Information
• Biographical Information
• Papers

Curriculum Vitae

Contact Information

Department of Economics
Tufts University
Medford, MA 02155

Phone: 617-627-3662
Fax: 617-627-3917

E-mail: sunghyun.kim@tufts.edu

Biographical Information

• Fields of Interest: Open Economy Macroeconomics, International Finance, International  Capital flows and Business Cycles.

• Degrees

Ph. D., Economics, Yale University, 1997

M.A., International Economics, Seoul National University, Korea, 1991

B.A., International Economics, Seoul National University, Korea, 1989

Research Papers

Working Papers

"Welfare Effects of Tax Policy in Open Economies: Stabilization and Cooperation," 2005, with Jinill Kim (Federal Reserve Board). Click here for paper.

“Perturbation Analysis of the Incomplete-Markets Model,” revised version in 2007, with Jinill Kim (FRB) and Robert Kollmann (ECARES). Click here for paper.

“Low-Order Perturbation Analysis of a Multi-Country Complete Markets Model,” revised version in 2007, with Jinill Kim (FRB) and Robert Kollmann (ECARES). Click here for paper.

"International Capital Flows and Boom-Bust Cycles in the Asia Pacific Region," revised version in 2005, with Soyoung Kim (Korea University) and Yunjong Wang (KIEP). Click here for paper.

Selected Published Papers

"Calculating and Using Second Order Accurate Solutions for Discrete Time Dynamic Equilibrium Models," 2003, with Jinill Kim (Federal Reserve Board), Ernst Schaumburg (Northwestern University), and Christopher Sims (Princeton University). Forthcoming in JEDC. Click here for paper.

“Fear of Floating in East Asia,” 2005, with Soyoung Kim (Korea University) and Yunjong Wang (KIEP). Forthcoming in Pacific Economic Review. Click here for paper.

"Two Pitfalls of Linearization Methods,"  2007, with Jinill Kim (Federal Reserve Board). JMCB 39, 995-1001. Click here for paper.

"Dynamic Welfare Effects of Tax Reform: Case of Korea,” 2007, Korea Development Review 3(2), 177-196.Click here for paper.

"Financial Panic and Exchange Rate Overshooting During Currency Crises," 2007, with Soyoung Kim (Korea University). International Economic Journal 21(1), 71-89. Click here for paper.

"Sources of Fluctuations: Case of MENA," 2007, with Hideaki Hirata (Bank of Japan) and Ayhan Kose(IMF). Emerging Markets Finance and Trade 43(1) 5-34. Click here for paper.

“Financial Integration and Consumption Risk Sharing in East Asia,” 2006, with Soyoung Kim  (Korea University) and Yunjong Wang (SK Research Institute). Japan and the World Economy 18(2), 143-57. Click here for Paper.

 “Integration and Fluctuations: The case of MENA,” 2004, with Ayhan Kose (IMF) and H. Hirata (Bank of Japan). Emerging Markets Finance and Trade 40(6), 49-69. Click here for Paper.

“Macroeconomic Effects of Capital Account Liberalization: Case of Korea,” 2004, with Soyoung Kim (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) and Yunjong Wang (KIEP), Review of Development Economics 8(4), 624-639. Click here for Paper.

“Dynamics of Business Cycles in Asia: Differences and Similarities,” 2003, with Ayhan Kose (IMF) and Michael Plummer (Johns Hopkins-Bologna). Review of Development Economics   7 (3), 462-477. Click here for Paper.

“Patience, Persistence and Welfare Costs of Incomplete Markets in Open Economies,” 2003, with Jinill Kim (Federal Reserve Board) and Andrew Levin (Federal Reserve Board). Journal of International Economics 61, pp. 385-96. Click here for Paper.

“Spurious Welfare Reversals in International Business Cycle Models,” 2003, with Jinill Kim (Federal Reserve Board). Journal of International Economics 60, pp. 471-500. Click here for Paper.

“Dynamics of Open Economy Business Cycle Models: Understanding the Role of the Discount Factor,” 2003, with Ayhan Kose (IMF). Macroeconomic Dynamics 7, pp. 263-90. Click here for Paper.

“The Saving-Investment Correlation Puzzle is Still a Puzzle,” 2001, Journal of International Money and Finance 20, pp. 1017-34. Click here for Paper.

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