Faculty and Staff Profiles

Research Area: International Trade, Multinational Corporations, Trade Policy 

Working Papers

• An empirical investigation on the transfer of expatriates within MNCs from a knowledge perspective (with Carmen Astorne-Figari) 
  

Publications

• Did China Tire Safeguard Save U.S. Workers? (with Sunghun Chung and Thomas Osang), accepted, European Economic Review
• The Impacts of Offshoring on Temporary Workers: Evidence on Wages from South Korea, (with Hongshik Lee), Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv) 151(2015), p.555-587
• Technology diffusion and host-country productivity in South-South FDI flows, (with Hyukwhang Kim and Hongshik Lee), Japan and the World Economy 33(2015), p.1-10 (ADB working paper version: Foreign Direct Investment, Technology Diffusion, and Host Country Productivity Growth)
• The Transfer of Workers within Multinationals and Ownership of Foreign Affiliates, Economics Letters 125 (2014), p.149-152
• How and Where to Offshore: A Productivity Comparison at the Firm Level, (with Jae-Jun Han and Hongshik Lee), Applied Economics 46 (2014), p. 1704-1715
• Language, Ethnicity, and Intra Firm Trade, (with Peter Debaere and Hongshik Lee), Journal of Development Economics 103 (2013), p. 244-253
• FDI Externalities and the Response of the Korean Stock Market, (with Sungjin Kang and Hongshik Lee), Korean Economic Review, Summer (2013)
• Agglomeration, Backward and Forward : Evidence from South Korean Investment in China, (with Peter Debaere and Myungho Paik), Canadian Journal of Economics 43 (2010), p. 520-546
• It Matters Where You Go: Outward Foreign Direct Investment and Multinational Employment Growth at Home, (with Peter Debaere and Hongshik Lee), Journal of Development Economics 91 (2010), p. 301-309
• Regional Production Network, Service Offshoring, and Productivity in East Asia, (with Moonsung Kang, Hyukwhang Kim, and Hongshik Lee), Japan and the World Economy 22 (2010), p. 206-216

Other Publications

• Offshoring and wage inequality, voxeu.org, 20 December 2015
• Clustering together abroad: South Korean multinationals in China, voxeu.org, 3 June 2009
• Venturing abroad at the cost of doemstic employment?, voxeu.org, 24 December 2008