In December 2006, the Korea Economic Institute of America (KEI) initiated an Academic Paper Series program to generaate monthly academic papers followed by a public discussion of topical issues related to the Korean Peninsula. KEI has commissioned seventeen papers in this series so far, of which 10 have been completed to date. To read the individual papers, please refer to the KEI website: www.keia.org/paper_series.php.

KEI now seeks proposals for up to five more papers to be published between October and December 2008 on original subjects of current interest to serious Korea watchers. Papers must be written exclusively for KEI, i.e., not have been presented or published previously in any form.

Papers should be approximately 4,000 - 5,000 words in length. KEI will eddit and distribute finished papers as KEI Academic Papers to over 2,000 government officials, think tank experts, and scholars around the United States and the world. KEI will also collate and publish all of the KEI Academic Papers in a single volume on an annual basis. The first edition of On Korea compiling the first ten papers commissioned by KEI between December 2006 and December 2007 was published in February 2008.

Authors of papers selected by KEI for the KEI Academic Paper Series will receive an honorarium of $2000 upon completion of the editorial process. KEI will arrange a mutually convenient date for each author to participate in a discussion in Washington with Korea analysts, government officials, and journalists of his/her selected paper at KEI conference facilities in Washington, DC, preferably during the month KEI publishes the paper. KEI will provide travel and accommodation expenses for the discussion program.

Interested authors should submit the following information by Monday, June 30, 2008:

KEI will inform the authors of the accepted paper topics on or about July 15, 2008, with the expectation that the initial paper would be distributed in early October. The author of this initial paper will be expected to transmit a first draft to KEI by September 22, 2008. Authors of papers scheduled for distribution later in the year will be separately notified of the required submission dates.

KEI will repeat the call for Academic Papers in October 2008 for publication in spring 2009.

Please submit your paper proposal to publication@keia.org. For any questions related to the Academic Paper series, please contact Nicole Finnemann, Director, Research & Academic Affairs, at nmf@keia.org.

Following papers are selected for presentation at the KEA/KAEA conference:

Following papers are selected for presentation at the KDI/KAEA conference:

Following two papers are selected for presentation at the BOK/KAEA conference:

To see the program in doc format, click on BOK/KAEA PROGRAM.

Following two papers are selected for presentation at the KIF/KAEA conference:

You can see the program in pdf format by clicking on KIF/KAEA PROGRAM.

Professor Young-Kyu Moh, Tresurer of the KAEA, who has organized the KAEA sessions at the WEAI meeting in Hawaii reports:

The 83rd Annual Conference of the Western Economic Association International (WEAI) will be held June 29 - July 3, 2008 at the Sheraton Waikiki, HI, USA. The Korea-America Economic Association (KAEA) organizes 3 academic sessions jointly with Korean Economic Association (KEA) at the WEAI conference.

For special event, the Korea-America Economic Association (KAEA) is organizing sessions for Korean junior economists at the WEAI conference. We wish to support future generations of Korean economists by providing graduate students opportunities to present their papers in one of the well-recognized international conferences. Invitation letters were sent out in January to the Korean universities and we selected 14 participants and offering 4 sessions for the Korean graduate students.

The graduate students sessions are:

We are very pleased to support future generations of Korean economists and wish to continue.

You can see the program in pdf format by clicking on WEAI/KAEA PROGRAM.

Professor Semoon Chang organized two academic sessions for the KAEA at the Southern Economic Association meeting in Washington DC. Mr. Lister of KEI is planning a special gathering at KEI during the meeting. Please contact Professor Chang at schang@usouthal.edu for more details.

You can see the program in pdf format by clicking on SEA/KAEA PROGRAM.

The 2009 convention of the Applied Social Science Association will be held in San Francisco, CA, January 3-5, 2009. The KAEA will sponsor three sessions at this annual convention including one joint session with AEA. This joint session is already organized with invited papers and submitted to the AEA office. KAEA members are invited to submit papers for the other two sessions. Papers do not have to be on Korean economy related issues.

Guidelines for Paper Submission: Abstract of 200-400 words (and a completed paper if available) should be submitted by e-mail to kaeapaper@gmail.com. This email is used for paper submission only; all other correspondences should use personal email addresses of KAEA officers.

Submission deadline: May 10, 2008.

To submit a paper, one has to be (or become) a lifetime KAEA member or has paid his/her annual membership dues for 2007 and 2008 by the time of submission.