Spring 2024
HYUNJU LEE
Contact Information
Department of Economics
4104 Martin Luther King Blvd.
Houston, Texas 77204-5019
e-mail: hlee73@uh.edu
Citizenship: South Korea (Permanent Resident of U.S. and Canada)
Academic Position
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Houston, 2023 - current
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Toronto Metropolitan University, 2018 – 2023
Education
2018, PhD in Economics, University of Minnesota
2015, MA in Economics, University of Minnesota
2012, MA (coursework) in Economics, Seoul National University
2011, BA summa cum laude in Economics, Seoul National University
Working Papers
“Intangible Capital and Shadow Financing”, with Radoslaw Paluszynski
Published Papers
“Capital Regulation and Shadow Finance: A Quantitative Analysis”, with Radoslaw Paluszynski and Sunyoung Lee (Forthcoming, the Review of Economic Studies)
“Overreaction and the Value of Information In a Pandemic”, with Keyvan Eslami (European Economic Review 161 (2024) 104624)
“A Model of Gross Capital Flows: Risk Sharing and Financial Frictions” (Forthcoming, International Economic Review)
Work in Progress
“Trade Costs and Financial Frictions: A Horse Race”, with Sterre Kuipers and Radoslaw Paluszynski
"Optimal Capital Regulation: Micro Evidence and Macro Implications", with Radoslaw Paluszynski
“Network Cities”, with Alessandra Fogli
Presentations (* scheduled)
2024: UC Santa Cruz* (Santa Cruz), SED* (Barcelona), Dallas Fed* (Dallas)
2023: ASSA (New Orleans), Rice University (Houston), Federal Reserve Board (Washington DC), University of Houston (Houston), National University of Singapore (Singapore), UNSW (Sydney), SED (Cartagena), KBER-Macro (Seoul), SAET (Paris), Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (virtual), Southern Economic Association (New Orleans)
2022: Korea Institute of Finance (virtual), T2M conference (London/virtual), BSE Summer Forum (Barcelona), Society of Economic Dynamics (Madison), Summer workshop on Money, Banking, Payments, and Finance (Washington DC), McMaster University (Hamilton), 2022 ITAM-PIER Conference on Macro-Finance (Mexico City), 2nd WE_ARE_IN Macroeconomics and Finance conference (Basel), Queen’s University (Kingston), St Louis Fed (St Louis), University of Missouri (Columbia), Kansas City Fed (Kansas City), CAFRAL Annual Conference (discussant; Mumbai)
2021: ASSA (virtual), KAEA-Macro (virtual), Minneapolis Fed (virtual), Korean Consulate in Toronto-KCUPF(virtual), Canadian Economics Association (virtual), Society for the Advancement of Economics Theory (virtual), Society of Economic Dynamics (Minneapolis), Southern Economic Association (Houston), Second Conference on the Interconnectedness of Financial Systems (Fed Board, virtual)
2020: ASSA (discussant; San Diego), KAEA-KWEN (virtual), 1st International Macro/Finance and Sovereign Debt Workshop in East Asia (discussant; virtual), Seoul National University (Seoul)
2019: Annual Workshop of Southern Ontario Macro Economists (Hamilton), Mid-West Macroeconomics Meeting (Athens, GA), Society for the Advancement of Economics Theory (Ischia), KER International Conference (Seoul), Vienna Macroeconomics Workshop (Vienna), Conference on Financial Stability (Mexico City)
2018: Bank of Portugal (Lisbon), Trinity College (Dublin), University of Melbourne (Melbourne), Penn Wharton Budget Model (Philadelphia), Ryerson University (Toronto), Yonsei University (Seoul), Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society (Seoul), Society for Economic Dynamics (Mexico City), University of New South Wales (Sydney)
2017: Mid-West Macroeconomics Meeting (Louisiana), Society for the Advancement of Economics Theory (Faro), European Economic Association – European Meeting of the Econometric Society (Lisbon)
2016: Workshop on Dynamic Macroeconomics (Vigo)
Honors and Awards
2023: Start-up Funds, University of Houston ($30,000)
2022-2024: Digital Research Alliance of Canada, Resource Allocations Competition, Principal Investigator, “Heterogeneous Shadow Financing”, awarded HPC resources ($16,673)
2022: Digital Research Alliance of Canada, Resource Allocations Competition, Co-Investigator, “Health Shocks, Wealth Inequality and Health-Care Policy”, awarded HPC resources ($10,745)
2019-2022: Travel grant, Faculty of Arts, Ryerson University
2018: Start-up Funds, Ryerson University ($20,000)
2013-2014: Bruce D. and Mildred D. Mudgett Fellowship, University of Minnesota
2012-2013: Burt and Susan Hill Gross Fellowship, University of Minnesota
2011-2012: Graduate School Fellowship, Seoul National University
2011: Taesung Kim Memorial Scholarship, Seoul National University
2008-2010: Scholarship for Academic Excellence, Seoul National University
Visiting Scholar/Other Professional Experience
2023-2024: Visiting Scholar, Stanford Economics (September 2023 - August 2024)
2023: Visiting Scholar, University of New South Wales (June 2023)
2022: Visiting Scholar, St Louis Fed (October 2022)
2018: Visiting Scholar, University of New South Wales (August 2018)
2014-2018: Research Analyst, Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Research analyst for Dr. Alessandra Fogli.
2011-2012: Research Assistant, Seoul National University. Research assistant for Prof. Tack Yun.
Referee
Economic Theory, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, Economics Letters, European Economic Review
Teaching
2018-2023: Instructor, Introductory Macroeconomics (BA), Intermediate Macroeconomics (BA), Macroeconomics (MA), International Finance (PhD), Department of Economics, Toronto Metropolitan University
Summer 2014: Grader, Math Refresher (PhD), Department of Economics, University of Minnesota
2013-2014: Teaching Assistant, Applied Econometrics (PhD), Department of Economics, University of Minnesota
2011-2012: Teaching Assistant, Mathematics for Economists (BA), Intermediate Microeconomics (BA), and Economics of Contracts (BA), Seoul National University