Ph.D. in Economics, Northern Illinois University, 1985
Ph.D. in Finance (ABD), University of Pennsylvania, 1988-91

Professional and Teaching Experience
 since  1993: Associate Professor; Department of Economics, Florida Atlantic University
1997 - 2006: Director of the Graduate Program; Department of Economics, Florida Atlantic University
1992 - 1993: Associate Professor; Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, Morris
1984 - 1992: Assistant Professor; Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, Morris

Honors, Awards and Fellowships

2008: "The Best Paper of The Year" from the Association of Korean Economic Studies for the paper "Endogenous Growth and Agglomeration Economies in Korean Manufacturing"

January 2001 - December 2004: InternetCoast Adams Professorship from the	College of Business, Florida Atlantic University

2002, 2004: Nominated for The Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award from the College of Business Florida Atlantic University

2001: Selected as the College Representative for The Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award from the College of Business Florida Atlantic University

1990: University Fellowship from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

1987: McKnight Land Grant Professorship from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Books

The Logic of Securities, the Art of Investment (Introduction to Portfolio Theory), Siat Publishing Co., Seoul, Korea, 2000

Modern Macroeconomics  (Intermediate-level textbook, with Dong-Se Cha), Pubmoon Publishing Co., Seoul, Korea, October 1997.


Research Papers

"The Spatial Density of Production Activity and Productivity Differentials across Regions: A Case of Korea," The Journal of the Korean Economy, 2008, vol. 9, 269-291. 

"What Happened to Pacific-Basin Emerging Markets after the 1997 Financial Crisis" (with Joo H. Nam),  Applied Financial Economics, 2008, vol. 18, 639-658.

"Endogenous Growth and Agglomeration Economies in Korean Manufacturing: A 
Sign of Declining Competitiveness" (with Y.J. Lee and D.S. Lee), The Journal of the Korean Economy, 2007

"Spillover Effects of Volatility from the U.S. Stock Market to the Korean Stock Stock Market" (with Joo H. Nam), Review of International Economics (in Korean), December. 2001, 23-45.

"Economic Growth and Productivity:  A Case Study of South Korea" (with Jene K. Kwon), Applied Economics, 2000.

"Financial Integration and Market Efficiency: Some International Evidence from Cointegration Tests," International Economic Journal, 11, Summer 1997, 103-116.

"Functional Separability and the Existence of Consistent Aggregates in U.S. Manufacturing:  Reply," International Economic Review, 37, February 1996, 259-260.

"Stock Price Volatility:  Tests for Linear and Nonlinear Cointegration in the Present Value Model of Stock Prices," Applied Financial Economics, 6, 1996, 487-494.

"Is the Fisher Effect Robust?  Further Evidence," Applied Economics Letters, 3, February 1996, 41-44.

"The Relation between Real Cash Balances and Physical Inputs in South Korea's   Manufacturing Sector" (with Khan A. Mohabbat), World Development, vol. 19, December 1991, 1777-1785.

"Functional Separability and the Existence of Consistent Aggregates in U.S. Manufacturing (Abstract)," Journal of Economic Literature, 24, September 1991, 1413.

"Input Measurement and Productivity Growth in Japanese and U.S. Manufacturing: Comment," American Economic Review, 81, September 1991, 1012-1014.

"Economic Growth, Technical Change Biases, and the Elasticity of Substitution: A Test of the de la Grandville Hypothesis," Review of Economics and Statistics, 73, May 1991, 340-346.

"Growth and Distribution:  A Test of the Induced Innovation Hypothesis for the Korean Economy," Applied Economics, 23, March 1991, 543-552.

"Functional Separability and the Existence of Consistent Aggregates in U.S. Manufacturing," International Economic Review, 32, February 1991, 229-250.


Published Monographs

Information Technology and Productivity Growth in Korea (with Seung Rok Park), Korea Economic Research Institute, Seoul, Korea, 2004. 

The Effects of Internal Business Transactions on Stock Valuation in Korean Business Groups, Korea Economic Research Institute (KERI), Seoul, Korea, 2002.

Are Rational Bubbles Present in the Korean Stock Market?  A Hazards Model, Korea Economic Research Institute (KERI), Seoul, Korea, 2000.

An Econometric Analysis of Regional Productivity in Korean Manufacturing and Policy Implications (with Yung Joon Lee), Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade (KIET), Seoul, Korea, August 1998.