Vol. XXI, No. 3, September-November, 2005


KAEA Election KAEA Conferences and Meetings
Nominees for 2006 ASSA/KAEA SEA/KAEA BOK & KIF

 
Election of 2006 Officers

This election page is prepared by the Executive Committee and questions regarding this election should be directed to the Executive Committee (sunghyun.kim@tufts.edu).

Nominees for Executive Committee and Advisory Board

The 2005 Nominating Committee has selected the following nominees for the Executive Committee for 2006 and the current Advisory Board selected a nominee for the Board member to replace Professor John Riew whose term expires this year. Click on the name to see their short c.v., which is limited to less than 3 page long.

Executive Committee:
President-Elect:      Joon Yong Park
Vice President:      Kang Hoon Park
Treasurer:              Bang Nam Jeon
 Advisory Board:
Board Member:      Soo-Bin Park

The Article VIII.3 of the ByLaws allows nomination of candidates "by three percent (3%) or more of the membership."  Twenty members (with five signatures) nominated

President-Elect:      Yong Hun Kim

Professor Yong Hun Kim accepted the nomination on October 5 and sent his c.v. on October 12.


Election Schedules

President Kyoo H. Kim announced on October 5 the following election schedules.

1. Cut-off date for voting; Friday, October 28, 2005: Any member who wishes to cast a vote this year must pay the 2005 due or life-time membership due by then. Your mail containing the due must be postmarked on or before October 28, 2005.

2. Date for mailing out ballots: Monday, November 7, 2005

3. Ballot-return date: Friday, December 9, 2005: Returned ballots containing your vote must be postmarked on or before December 9, 2005.

Appointments of Tellers

On September 13, 2005, President Kyoo H. Kim appointed Professor Bong Joon Yoon in the Department of Economics at SUNY-Binghamton as the teller.

On December 5, 2005, President Kyoo H. Kim appointed another teller, Professor Yong Jin Kim in the School of Management at SUNY-Binghamton, in consultation with president-elect candidate Yong H. Kim and the Nominating Committee, and in accordance with Article VIII.5 of the Bylaws.

They will open and count the votes at 10 am on Monday, December 19, 2005.


 
ASSA-KAEA Annual Meeting
January 6-8, 2006

2006 ASSA-KAEA Annual Meeting
Preliminary Program

The preliminary program of the 2006 Annual Meeting in Boston is posted at ASSA/KAEA Program.

Papers to be presented at the meeting

Barry Eichengreen, University of California-Berkeley, and Hui Tong, Bank of England, "The Impact of China's Growth and the Exports and FDI of Other Asian Countries"

Kyungchul Kevin Song, University of Pennsylvania, "Testing Conditional Independence Using Conditional Martingale Transforms"
Sokbae Simon Lee, University College London, "Identification of a Competing Risks Model with Unknown Transformations of Latent Failure Times"
Minjae Song, Georgia Institutes of Technology, "The Quality Adjusted Price Index and Consumer Heterogeneity"

Woochan Kim, KDI School of Public Policy, and Taeyoon Sung, KAIST Graduate School of Management, "What Makes Group-Affiliated Firms Go Public?"
Kwang Soo Cheong, Johns Hopkins University, and Keun Lee, Seoul National University, "Behavioral Characteristics of Business Group Firms: A Formal Model and Empirical Investigation"
Heung-Joo Cha, University of St. Thomas, and Jaebeom Kim, University of St. Thomas, "Short and Long Run Dynamic Relations between Security Returns and Mutual Fund Flows: a System Approach"

Sei Wan Kim, Ewha University, "Another Look at Long-Horizon Stock Returns: Evidence from the G-7 Stock Markets"
Jee-Hyeong Park, Seoul National University, "Trigger Strategies in Repeated Games with Imperfect Private Monitoring"
Yoonbai Kim, University of Kentucky, "Characterizing Exchange Rate Policy in East Asia: A Reconsideration"
HyeYoon Chung, George Mason University, "Playing Hopes at Seven Eleven"

 
SEA-KAEA Meeting
November 18-20, 2005

2005 SEA-KAEA Meeting
November 18-20, 2005

The program of the 2005 Meeting in Washington D.C. is as follows:

KAEA-SEA Session I: Trade and Economic Transition
Chairperson: Byung-Joo Lee, University of Notre Dame

Papers:

Byung-Joo Lee, Justin M. Dubas, and Nelson C. Mark, University of Notre Dame, "Effective Exchange Rate Classification and Growth."
Joachim Ahrens. and Philipp Mengerianghaus, European Business School of International University, "Institutional Change and Economic Transition: Market-enhancing Governance, Chinese Style."
Semoon Chang, University of South Alabama, and Katarina Gofusova, University of Economics, Bratislava, "Intra-Industry Trade between Korea and Slovakia."

Discussants:
Byung-Joo Lee, University of Notre Dame
Joachim Ahrens, European Business School of International University
Katarina Gofusova, University of Economics, Bratislava

KAEA-SEA Session II: Entrepreneurship and Technology
Chairperson: H. Youn Kim, Western Kentucky University

Papers:

Yong J. Yoon, George Mason University, "Entrepreneurial Element in the Extent of the Market"
YoungJun Kim, Henderson State University, "Determinants of Technology Licensing Partners"
Jaymin Lee, Yonsei University, "Union and Profitability of Korean Firms before and after the Crisis"
H. Youn Kim, Western Kentucky University, "Intertemporal Production and Intertemporal Substitution"

Discussants:
YoungJun Kim, Henderson State University
H. Youn Kim, Western Kentucky University
Jaymin Lee, Yonsei University
Yong J. Yoon, George Mason University

KAEA Cocktail reception with a panel discussion of the Korean economy:

Chair: Professor Kyoo H. Kim, Bowling Green State University.

Speakers:

Jong Nam Oh, Executive Director, IMF
Seung Woo Chang, Chairman of Korea Investment Holding Co. Ltd
Hyo Shang Khang, Editor, Chosun Ilbo (visiting Harvard University)

 
BOK & KIF Conferences

2005 Conferences with BOK and KIF

Papers selected for the joint conference with The Institute of Monetary and Economic Research at the Bank of Korea are as follows:

Hwagyun Kim, SUNY at Buffalo, "Velocity Shocks and Optimal Monetary Policy"

Jinill Kim, Federal Reserve Board, " Relative Price Distortion and Optimal Monetary Policy"

Byeongseon Seo, Texas A&M University, "Rational Expectations, Long-Run Taylor Rule, and Forecasting Inflation."

Papers selected for the joint conference with KIF in December are

Youngil Jeon, Central Michigan University, "An Ideal Decomposition of Industry Dynamics: An Application to the Nationwide and State Level U.S. Banking industry"

Dong Heon Kim, University of Manchester and University of California, San Diego, "Nonlinearity in the Term Structure"

Junsoo Lee, University of Alabama, "Banking Relations and Dividend Policy"

Kang H. Park, Southeast Missouri State University, "Efficiency and Productivity Growth of Korean Banks in a Changing Environment of Financial Intermediation"