Young-Bae Kim
Lecturer - Department of Economics
BA (Hons) Economics, University of Chongju, South Korea
MSc Economics, Birckbeck College, University of London
PhD Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London
Telephone: +44 (0)1483 686 949
Fax: +44 (0)1483 686958
Room No: 09 AD 00
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Email: Y.B.Kim@surrey.ac.uk
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Young-Bae KIM graduated in Economics from the University of Chongju in South Korea in 1995. He received a MSc degree in Economics in 1998 from Birkbeck College, University of London. In 2005, he completed his PhD in Economics at the same institution. He taught at Birkbeck as a Part-time teacher during his PhD. He has served as a research associate to the University of Kent and also lectured various courses at Birkbeck College and the University of Surrey as an associate lecturer before being appointed as a lecturer at the University of Surrey in 2008. Young-Bae's general research area is in macroeconomics and applied economics with particular interests on economic growth, labour economics, monetary economics, product and labour markets, education and training, economic integration and regional economics. He is also the department’s IT officer.
Recent publications
- “Habit Formation: Deep and Uncertain”, Economics Bulletin, 4(5), pp.1-7 (with A. Choudhary) 2007.
Current working papers
- “Is there a Trade-Off between Regional Growth and National Income? Theory and Evidence”, Surrey Discussion Paper, 2008.
- "Education, Training and Economic Performance: Evidence from Establishment Survival Data", (with Francis Green, William Collier and John Peirson at University of Kent) Discussion Paper 08/22, Department of Economics, University of Kent.
Current teaching
- ECOM022 Quantitative Methods in Economics, 2008
- ECO3003 Time Series Economics, 2008
- ECO3017 Macroeconomics of Economic Growth, 2009
- ECOM011 Preliminary Quantitative Methods, 2009
- ECOM021 Macroeconomics, 2009
- ECOM037 Advanced Economic Theory, 2009
