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Changyun Wang Professor of Finance, School of Finance/Renmin University of China
Changyun Wang obtained his PhD in Financial Economics from University of London in 1999. He obtained his BA and MA degrees in Economics from Renmin University of China in 1986 and 1989 respectively. He is currently a Professor of Finance, School of Finance, Renmin University of China (2003-present). He is also Director of China Financial Policy Research Center (A key research base of Ministry of Education in China). Prior to his current position, he taught in the Business School of National University of Singapore from 1999 to 2005.
His research interests include derivatives market, Chinese capital markets, and corporate governance. Dr Wang has published numerous papers in Journal of Futures Markets, Journal of Banking and Finance, Quantitative Finance, Pacific Basin Finance Journal, etc. | |
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Hyoung-Tae Kim President/Korea Capital Market Institute
Dr. Hyoung-Tae Kim is the President of Korea Capital Market Institute (KCMI), the most prestigious financial markets research institute in Korea. Dr, Kim was also a member of National Economic Advisory Council (Advisory Council for the President of Korea), Advisory Council of G20 Research Group (Munk Institute), Foreign Exchange Market Stability Committee (Ministry of Strategy and Finance), Financial Advancement Committee (Financial Services Commission), and Financial Regulation Evaluation Committee. (Financial Supervisory Service).In addition, he served as a member of Finance Development Committee and a member of Policy Advisory and Evaluation Committee, Ministry of Finance and Economy. He was also a member of Regulation Reform Advisory Committee of Financial Supervisory Commission. He used to be a World Bank Consultant and served as an advisor of Korea Exchange. Dr. Kim received a B.B.A. and M.B.A. at Business School of Seoul National University. He received a Ph.D. in Finance from Seoul National University. Dr. Kim served as a post-doctorate at MIT and a senior research fellow at University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Kim’s research interest includes Financial System Architecture, Global Capital Market, Private Equity Fund, Structured Finance, and Investment Banking. | |
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Scot E. Warren Senior Managing Director/Equity Index Products & Index Services, CME Group
Scot E. Warren has served as Senior Managing Director, Equity Index Products & Index Services of CME Group since February 2010. He is responsible for overseeing the company's equity product line and index services business. He represents CME Group as a member of the Board of Directors of S&P Dow Jones Index Services and OneChicago. He previously served as the CEO of the firm's Index Service business.
Before joining CME Group, Warren gained more than 16 years of equity and option trading and clearing experience. He most recently worked at Goldman Sachs and Co. While at Goldman, Warren managed equity wholesaling to broker dealers and served as CFO of North America Securities Trading. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, he managed equity and option execution and clearing businesses for ABN AMRO in Chicago and was a senior consultant for Arthur Andersen & Co. for financial services firms.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Pennsylvania State University and a master’s of science degree in financial markets and trading from the Illinois Institute of Technology Stuart School of Business. | |
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Iwan Azis Head, Office of Regional Economic Integration/Asian Development Bank
Iwan J. Azis is the Head of the Asian Development Bank’s Office of Regional Economic Integration (OREI). He assumed office in September 2010. Mr. Azis has over 33 years of professional experience as an economist and an academic. Before joining ADB, Mr. Azis was a Professor and Director of Graduate Studies of the Regional Science Program and Adjunct Professor of Economics of Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, USA. He joined Cornell University in 1992. Prior to this, Mr. Azis was the Chairman of the Department of Economics at the University of Indonesia, and Director of the World Bankfunded Inter-University Center.
His expertise is on macro-financial economics and regional economic modeling and institutions. He has conducted research and consulting work for various international organizations, governments and universities. He has published numerous books and articles on current development issues. His latest book is “Crisis, Complexity and Conflict”, Emerald, UK (2009). Mr. Azis is one of the founders of the Asian Peace Science Network established in 2008. Mr. Azis, an Indonesian national, obtained his Ph.D. and Master’s degree in Regional Science/Economics from Cornell University, and his Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Indonesia. | |
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Kiyohiko G. Nishimura Professor of Economics/University of Tokyo
Kiyohiko G. Nishimura is Professor of Economics at the University of Tokyo and Former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Japan. Before returning to academia, he was Deputy Governor for five years until March 19, 2013, one of the most turbulent periods in the history of the world economy and central banking. He has been particularly influential in the debates over macro-prudential policies, especially in pointing out the critical importance of demographic factors on property bubbles and financial crisis. His work and speeches on demography and economic policy have been cited widely and policy makers around the world have increasingly been recognizing the urgency of the problem.
He received his B.A.(1975) and M.A.(1977) from the University of Tokyo, and Ph.D.(1982) from Yale University. He was an Arthur M. Okun Research Fellow (1981-1982) at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., before joining the Faculty of Economics at the University of Tokyo in 1993 where he was Associate Professor (1983-1994) and Professor (1994-2005). He was jointly appointed as Executive Research Fellow of the Economic and Social Research Institute of the Cabinet Office of the Government of Japan between 2003 and 2005, before joining the Bank of Japan as its Member of the Policy Board (2005-2008), and then as Deputy Governor (2008-2013).
His academic research focus spans widely from economic theory such as mathematical economics and the microeconomic foundation of macroeconomics, economic policy to management studies about areas including property markets and the e-business of automobile distribution. He received the Nikkei Prize in 1993 for his book, Imperfect Competition, Differential Information, and Microeconomic Foundations of Macroeconomics (Oxford University Press, 1992), the Japan Economist Prize in 1997 for his book, Macroeconomics of “Price Revolution” (Nihon Keizai Shinbun, 1996), the Japan Association of Real Estate Sciences Prize in 2005 for his book, Economic Analysis of Property Markets (Nihon Keizai Shinbun, 2002), and TELECOM Social Science Award in 2006 for his book, Advancement of Information and Communication Technology and Its Impacts on the Japanese Economy (Yuhikaku Publishing, 2004). He was also the winner of the Japanese-Economic-Association-Nakahara Prize in 1998 for his outstanding international contribution to mathematical economics and economic theory. He is now a senior advisor of the Asian Economic Panel and a member of the editorial board of several international academic journals in economics and management sciences. He also held business positions before joining the Bank of Japan: he sat on the Advisory Board of the Fujitsu Research Institute (Japan) and he was an academic advisor of Recruit Ltd. (Japan) and Investment Property Databank (U.K.). | |
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Calvin Tai Co-Head of Equities, Fixed Income and Currency, Global Markets Division/Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx)
Mr. Tai is a Co-Head of Equities, Fixed Income and Currency in Global Markets Division of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx) and he is responsible for trading operations, product and business development for equities, fixed income and currency markets.
Mr. Tai joined the Hong Kong Futures Exchange Limited, before its merger with the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong, as the Head of Products in 1998. Before joining the Hong Kong Futures Exchange Limited, he has worked in banking industry for more than 10 years and held various management positions in ABN-Amro Bank N.V., HSBC and Royal Bank of Canada.
Mr. Tai holds a Bachelor of Social Sciences degree from the University of Hong Kong. | |
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Mike Ahn Managing Director, International Sales Division/Samsung Futures
1996 Bachelor in Business Administration, Yonsei University 2000 MBA, Seoul National University 2002 MBA, Washington University in St. Louis 2009 Ph.D. in Finance, Georgia Institution of Technology Not graduated but acquired master degree upon completion of the Ph.D. course
2004 Manager, Corporate Finance & Accounting, Global Headquarters, Samsung Electronics Treasury Group, Corporate Finance Group, International Finance Group - He Joined Samsung after his MBA through Samsung's global recruiting program. Before his MBA, he worked for multinational companies in Korea. 2009 Director, International Sales Team 1. Samsung Futures 2010 Head, International Sales Team 2. Samsung Futures 2013-Current Managing Director, International Sales Division, Samsung Futures | |
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Azila Aziz CEO & Head of Listed Derivatives/Kenanga Deutsche Futures Sdn Bhd
Ms Azila Abdul Aziz, is Chief Executive Officer and Head of Listed Derivatives of Kenanga Deutsche Futures Sdn Bhd. She is the member of the Senior Management Team and appointed as a Board Member of Kenanga Deutsche Futures Sdn Bhd Board of Directors since July 2, 2008.
Azila has 16 years of sustainable hands on experience in sales and dealing in Malaysian Derivatives products to foreign and domestic institutions. She joined Kenanga Deutsche Futures Sdn Bhd from Feb 2000 and currently leads a team of qualified Malaysian Futures Dealers involved in futures dealing, product sales & marketing, electronic execution and the solution providers to a diverse group of clientele base.
Her main areas of coverage are: •Customer relationship management, create value proposition, advise and attend to high level and ad hoc clients’ business queries involving decision-making that affects the firm’s profitability. •Develop organizational talent, involve in strategic planning for business continuity management and corporate succession plan. Hiring includes attracting the return of local Malaysian talent working abroad in regional financial/derivatives markets •For industrial engagement, she is an appointed member on the FTSE Bursa Malaysia Index Advisory Committee since 2006. Main duties are to advise on matters relating to proposed amendments to the FTSE Bursa Malaysia Index Series and also on the construction and methodology of new indices.
Prior to joining Kenanga Deutsche Futures Sdn Bhd, Azila held the position of Institutional Sales at RHB Securities Sdn Bhd from 1996-2000. Her main role involved the sales of listed Malaysian futures and regional equities to foreign financial institutions and domestic institutions namely Permodalan Nasional Berhad, state funds and various local asset management companies.
Azila graduated from Malaysia’s University Institute of Technology MARA (UITM) with Bachelor’s Degree (Hons) in Finance and a Diploma in Investment Analysis. | |
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Ho-Chul Lee President of Derivative Market Division & COO/Korea Exchange
Ho-Chul Lee joined the Korea Exchange (KRX) as the President of Derivative Market Deivision & COO in May 2012. He has diverse field experiences in Economics, serving in the Economic Planning Board, the Presidential Office, and the Ministry of Strategy and Finance. He also was involved in academic activities, taking charge of an economic adviser to the Senior Vice President and Chief Economist at the World Bank, and served as a visiting professor of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Mr. Lee received Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pantheon-Sorbonne in France, and was awarded the Prize of Publication for Free Economy. | |
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Dong-Hyun Ahn Professor, Department of Economics/Seoul National University
1982-1988 Business School, Korea University BA 1988-1990 Business School, Korea University Finance MS 1991-1996 Finance Department, New York University Finance Ph.D.
1996-2002 Finance Department, Univ. of North Carolina, Assistant Professor 2000-2001 Business School, Korea Univ., Assistant Professor 2002-2003 Finance Department, Univ. of North Carolina, Associate Professor 2003-2007 Department of Economics, Seoul National Univ., Associate Professor 2007-2008 Department of Economics, Seoul National Univ., Professor 2008-2009 Royal Bank of Scotland, Head of Quant Strategy (G4 Treasury bonds, interest rate derivatives and currency) 2009-Current Department of Economics, Seoul National Univ., Professor
-"Endogenous Labor/Leisure/Investment Choice Under Time Constraints," with Sun-Joong Yoon, 2011, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis -“Basis Assets”, with Jennifer Conrad and Robert F. Dittmar, 2009, Review of Financial Studies - "Portfolio Performance Measurement: a No Arbitrage Bounds Approach,'' with Henry Cao, Stephane Chretien, 2009, European Financial Management - "Common Factors and Local Factors: Implications for Term Structures and Exchange Rates" 2004, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis -"Purebred or Hybrid?: Reproducing Volatility in Term Structure Dynamics" with Robert Dittmar, A. Ronald Gallant and Bin Gao, 2003, Journal of Econometrics -"Exchange Rates and Currency Options: An Arbitrage Approach'' with Bin Gao, 2003, Review of Derivatives Research -"Risk Adjustment and Trading Strategies'' with Jennifer Conrad and Robert Dittmar, 2003, Review of Financial Studies -"Quadratic Term Structure Models: Theory and Evidence'' with Robert Dittmar and A. Ronald Gallant, 2002, Review of Financial Studies -"A Parametric Nonlinear Model of Term Structure Dynamics'' with Bin Gao, 1999, Review of Financial Studies, 12, 721-762. -"Optimal Risk Management Using Options'' with Jacob Boudoukh, Matthew Richardson and Robert Whitelaw, 1999, Journal of Finance. -"Pricing Discrete Barrier Options with an Adaptive Mesh Model'' with Steve Figlewski and Bin Gao, 1999, Journal of Derivatives -"Hedging the Interest Rate Risk of Bradys: the Case of Argentina Fixed and Floating-Rate Bonds'' with Jacob Boudoukh, Matthew Richardson and Robert Whitelaw, 1997, Emerging Market Capital Flows, Ed. By Richard Levich, Kluwer Academic Publishers | |
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Joon-Ho Hahm Professor of International Economics and Finance, Graduate School of International Studies/Yonsei University
Dr. Joon-Ho Hahm is a Professor of International Economics and Finance at Yonsei University’s Graduate School of International Studies. Prior to joining Yonsei, Professor Hahm was a Fellow at the Korea Development Institute and a Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Professor Hahm has previously served as a Specialist Commission Member for the Republic of Korea’s Presidential Commission for Financial Reform, Listing Committee Member of the Korea Exchange, and Non-Executive Director of the Woori Bank and the Korea Deposit Insurance Corporation. He received his MBA and Ph.D. from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business. Professor Hahm has written extensively in the fields of economics and finance, and his academic articles have appeared in various internationally renowned journals including the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Applied Economics, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Emerging Markets Review, and Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies. | |
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Chong-suk Choi President & CEO, Chairman of the Board of Directors/Korea Investment Corporation
Mr. Chong-Suk Choi was appointed President & CEO of KIC in July 2011. He brings to KIC his 35 year experience in international finance. Currently, he sits as a member of Bank of America Global Advisory Council and a member of the International Advisory Board of the Russian Direct Investment Fund. Prior to joining KIC, Mr. Choi had spent almost twenty years at Korea Hana Bank, which is one of the top private financial institutions in Korea. At Hana Bank, he was Executive Advisor, President & COO of the Financial Markets & Treasury Banking Unit and Deputy President & Group Head of the Financial Markets Group. Furthermore, he was President & CEO (Representative Director) for Hana Bank (China) Co., Ltd. Other important positions include Executive Advisor for Hana Financial Group Inc., Chairman of Allianz Global Investors Korea, CFO/Senior Executive Vice President for Strategic Planning Division at Hana Bank, among others. Mr. Choi was also at the Korea Exchange Bank from 1976 to 1992.
Mr. Choi received his MBA from Columbia Business School in 1981 and his bachelor’s degree from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in 1974. | |
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Yves Choueifaty President and CIO/TOBAM
22 yrs investment experience. Mr. Choueifaty built TOBAM in 2005, and developed it, first as part of Lehman Brothers Asset Management, and then as an independent asset management firm. Prior to that, Mr. Choueifaty was CEO of Credit Lyonnais Asset Management (“CLAM”), after having been the CIO of CLAM since 2000 with direct responsibility for all aspects of the Investment Management process as well as Marketing and Sales.
Mr. Choueifaty graduated in 1992 from ENSAE in Statistics, Actuarial studies, Finance, and Artificial Intelligence. | |
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Stéphane Mauppin-Higashino Head of the Equity Investment Specialists team/Amundi
Stéphane began his career as an economic attaché for the French Trade Commission in Australia. In 1996, he became Credit Analyst for Société Générale (Australia) and joined Fortis Investment Management in 1997 as an Emerging Equities Portfolio Manager. He was promoted Deputy Head of the Emerging Equities Management team in 2002. He joined Amundi (formerly Crédit Agricole Asset Management) in 2006 after graduating from the INSEAD MBA programme. He also holds a Bachelor of Commerce from ESSCA (French Business School) and an MSc of International Trade and Finance from Lancaster University. | |
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Emmanuel Roulin Head/LOIM Asia Pacific, Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch Asia Limited
Emmanuel Roulin has a 25-year experience in the investment management industry. He joined Lombard Odier in 2001 as Founder and Managing Director of Lombard Odier’s subsidiary in France. He built up an institutional client base and was also responsible for portfolio management for two years. In 2007, he relocated in Geneva, became Head of Marketing and Products and ran the full sales & marketing activities of Lombard Odier asset management in Europe. Since 2010, he relocated in Hong Kong where he is responsible for the business development and client relationship management activities of both Lombard Odier Investment Managers and Lombard Odier Funds for the Asia Pacific region. Previously, Emmanuel served as a Vice President in the Corporate department of Credit Lyonnais. In 1990, he joined the Crédit Agricole Group. First, he was fixed income products sales at BFT and responsible for a corporate book. Then, he was appointed head of French Institutional Investors at Crédit Agricole Asset Management. Throughout his career, he acquired specialised expertise in understanding the institutional and wholesale markets. He has a proven track record developing business with investors and building up organizations able to fit investors’ specific needs and to provide them with top class client servicing. Emmanuel hold an engineering degree from the Ecole Nationale d’Arts et Métiers in Paris. | |
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Alex Lee Assistant Professor of Law/USC Gould School of Law
2006 Yale Law School, J.D., Activities: Yale Law Journal, Yale Journal on Regulation, Yale Law and Policy Review 2006 Yale Graduate School, Ph.D. in Economics, Dissertation: Essays on the Economics of Antitrust Law and Regulation; Essays on Economic Sociology of Education 2001 Cambridge University, Emmanuel College, M.A. in Mathematics, Honors: Awarded First Distinction 2000 Harvard College, B.A. in Mathematics, summa cum laude, Honors: Phi Beta Kappa
1999 & 2001 Mercer Oliver Wyman, Student Intern/Independent Contractor Lee 2/3 Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization, Landlord and Tenant Clinic 2002 U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Law Student Intern 2003 President’s Council of Economic Advisers, Graduate Intern 2005 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, LLP, Law Student Intern Law Clerk to Honorable Thomas B. Griffith, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit 2007-2009 Financial Economist, Office of Economic Analysis, Economic Fellow 2010-2011 Senior Counsel, Division of Risk, Strategy, and Financial Innovation, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission 2012-Present Assistant Professor of Law, USC Gould School of Law (Joined faculty as a tenure track assistant professor in 2012)
2005 Head Teaching Assistant, Game Theory, Yale University 2004 Teaching Assistant, Game Theory, Yale University 2002-2003 Legal Research Assistant, Professors Henry Smith & Ian Ayres, Yale Law School 1998-2000 Teaching Assistant, Multivariable Calculus, Harvard University 1999 Teaching Assistant, Topology Harvard University 1998 Teaching Assistant, Mathematics for Physicists, Harvard University 1998 Head Counselor, Program in Mathematics for Young Scientists
1997-2000 John Harvard Scholar 1999 Putnam Mathematics Competition, Top 15 2001 HerchelSmith Harvard Scholar 2002-2005 National Science Foundation Fellowship 2002-2006 Cowles Foundation Scholarship 2002-2006 Yale Club of New Haven Scholar 2002-2006 Samsung Lee Kun Hee Scholarship 2004 John M. Olin Fellowship for Law and Economics 2005 Raymond Powell Teaching Prize 2012 Law and Policy Award for DoddFrank Act Implementation
New York Bar, American Law and Economics Association, American Economic Association, Korean Economic Association
- An OptionsApproach to Agency Rulemaking, 65 ADMIN. L. REV. __ (forthcoming, 2013) - Consumer Mistakes in the Mortgage Market: Choosing Unwisely Versus Not Switching, Wisely, 14 UNIV. PENN. BUS. L.J. 417 (2012) (with K. Jeremy Ko), - Competition, Consumer Welfare, and the Social Cost of Monopoly, 1 ISSUES IN COMPETITION L. & POL’Y 409 (2008) (with Donald J. Brown) Reprinted in COMPUTATIONAL ASPECTS OF GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM THEORY: REFUTABLE THEORIES OF VALUE (2008) (eds. Donald J. Brown & Felix Kubler) - The Economics of Regulatory Reform: Termination of Airline Computer Reservation Systems Rules, 21 YALE J. ON REG. 369 (2004) (with Cindy R. Alexander) - Criminal Jurisdiction Under the U.S.Korea Status of Forces Agreement: From Problems to Proposals, 13 J. TRANSNAT’L L. 213 (2003) | |
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Kwang Choi Chairman & CEO/The National Pension Service
1970 B.A. in Business Administration, Seoul National University 1974 M.A. in Public Policy, University of Wisconsin, USA 1979 M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics, University of Maryland, USA
1979~1981 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Economics, Univ. of Wyoming, USA 1981~1985 Fellow, Korea Development Institute 1988~1989 Visiting Professor, Dept. of Economics, Univ. of York, UK 1995~1997 President, Korea Institute of Public Finance 1997~1998 Minister, Ministry of Health and Welfare 2001~2001 Visiting Professor, Hitotsubashi University 2003~2004 Chief, National Assembly Budget Office 1985~2013 Professor, Dept. of Economics, Hankuk Univ. of Foreign Studies 2013~Present CEO of the National Pension Service
1986 Order of Industrial Service Merit, Government of Republic of Korea. 2003 Blue Strips, Order of Service Merit, Government of Republic of Korea. 1973~1975 Ford Foundation Fellowship. 1973~1974 Fellow, Center for Development, University of Wisconsin. 1974~1975 University of Maryland Graduate School, Fellowship. 1988~1989 Foreign and Commonwealth Office Scholarship, The British Government. 2000~2001 Japan Foundation Fellowship, The Japanese Government.
1969 Certified Public Accountant, Republic of Korea. 1983~1990 Member, Policy Advisory Committee, Ministry of Finance. 1984~1994 Member, Board of Directors, Korean Society of Public Finance and Korean Tax Association. 1984~Present Member, Commission on Tax Reform, Ministry of Finance. 1986~1987 Editor-in-Chief, Korea Social Security Studies. 1988~1989, 1994~1995 and 1996~1997 Member, Scientific Committee International Institute of Public Finance. 1986~1992 Member, Budget Policy Committee, Economic Planning Board. 1990~1993 Member, Board of Directors, The Korea Development Bank. 1991~1992 Secretary, Korea Economic Association. 1993~1996 Member, Policy Committee for Local Taxes, Ministry of Home Affairs. 1994~1996 Chairman, Advisory Committee for Tariff Policy, Ministry of Finance. 1995~1997 Member, Presidential Commission on Globalization. 1994~1996 President, Korean Tax Association. 1995~1997 Member, Presidential Commission on Welfare Reform. 1997~1998 President, Korean Association of Public Economics. 1999~2002, 2002~2005 Member, Board of Management, International Institute of Public Finance. President, Korean Intellectuals for Freedom
(Books in English Only) Theories of Comparative Economic Growth, Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1983. Public Policy, Corporate Finance and Investment : The Experiences of Japan, Korea and Taiwan, (with four others), Tokyo : Institute of Developing Economies, 1985. Tax Policy and Tax Reforms in Korea, Washington DC: World Bank, 1989. Public Finance in Korea, Seoul : The Korean Society of Public Finance, 1992. Fiscal and Public Policies, Seoul : Korea Institute of Public Finance, 2003. Tax System and Tax Policy in Korea, Seoul : Korean Institute of Public Finance, 2003. Economic Development and Economic Crisis Management in Korea, Seoul: Korea Development Institute, 2004. Economic Development and Economic Policy in Korea, Seoul: KDI School of Public Policy and Management. 2005 | |
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