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Economist
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Research Interests
- International macroeconomics, Applied Time Series
Econometrics, Asian Economics, Economic Geography.
Education
- University of Oregon: M.A. (1996, Mathematics);
Ph.D. (1996, Economics)
Employment
- October 1996–present: Federal Reserve Bank
of Dallas
- March 2002–July 2002: Visiting Scholar, Ministry
of Finance, Japan
Languages
- English, Korean and Japanese
Selected Publications
International and Macroeconomics
- “Does NAFTA Move North America Toward
a Common Currency Area” (with William
C. Gruben), in Monetary Integration And
Dollarization: No Panacea (edited by Matias
Vernengo), 2005 Edward Elgar.
- “Feedback between US and UK Prices:
A Frequency Domain Analysis” (with Paul
A. Johnson), Economics Bulletin, Vol.
6 No. 17, 2004, pp. 1–9.
- “How
Much Does International Trade Affect Business
Cycle Synchronization?”
 (with
William C. Gruben and Eric Millis), Federal
Reserve Bank of Dallas Working Paper 0203, 2002.
- “Business Cycles Under Monetary Union:
EU and US Business Cycles Compared,” (with
Mark Wynne), Economica, Volume 67,
2000, pp. 347–74.
- “Measuring Regional Cost of Living,”
(with Keith Phillips and Fiona Sigalla), Journal
of Business and Economic Statistics, Vol.
18, 2000, pp. 127–36.
- “Rolling
Recessions,” (with Sheila Dolmas
and Mark Wynne) Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Southwest Economy, September 1997.
- “Frequency Domain Analysis of Causal
Relationship between Economic Time Series,”
Ph. D. dissertation, Univeristy of Oregon 1996.
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Banking and Finance
- “Financial Liberalization, Market Discipline
and Bank Risk,” (with William C. Gruben
and Robert Moore), Presented at KIF/KAEA Conference
in Seoul, December 2004.
- “When Does Financial Liberalization
Make Banks Risky?” (with William C. Gruben
and Robert Moore) in Research in Financial
Services, Vol. 14, 2002, edited by George
G. Kaufman.
- “Financial
Repression, Financial Development and Economic
Growth,” (with Joseph H. Haslag)
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Working Paper
9902, 1999.
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Asian Economic Issues
- "Miracle
to Malaise: What’s Next for Japan?”
(with W. Michael Cox), Federal Reserve Bank
of Dallas Economic Letter, vol. 1,
no. 1, January 2006.
- “Three Myths of Foreign Exchange Market
Intervention in Major East Asian Economies,”
(with Dong Fu), ChinaMoney, June 2004.
- “China is not threat to America,”
(with W. Michael Cox), Financial Times,
October 28, 2003.
- “China:
Awakening Giant,” (with W. Michael
Cox), Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Southwest
Economy, October 2003.
- “Japanese
Economic Policy Conundrums,” Federal
Reserve Bank of Dallas Southwest Economy,
August 2003.
- “China’s
Growing Economic Influence in East Asia After
WTO,” (with Dong Fu) Federal Reserve
Bank of Dallas Southwest Economy, July
2002.
- “Recovery
from a Financial Crisis: The Case of South Korea,”
(with Sherry Kiser) Federal Reserve
Bank of Dallas Economic and Financial Review,
December 2001.
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Economic Geography
- “Do Historical Events Matter in Geographic
Agglomeration? The Case of South Korea,”
(with Yune Lee), Applied Economics Letters,
2006 (forthcoming).
- “Trends in Geographic Distribution of
Manufacturing in South Korea: 1909–2003,”
(with Yune Lee), Review of Economic History,
July 2005.
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Submitted Papers
- “An Economic Interpretation of Suicide Cycles
in Japan”
- “Intra-industry Trade, Inter-industry Trade
and Business Cycle Synchronization”
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