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About Myself

1. Contact
• Junhan Kim
  Research Department
  The Bank of Korea
  110 3-Ga Namdaemunno Jung-Gu
  Seoul 100-794, Korea
  


• Voice: 82-2-759-4192
• Mobile: 82-10-4724-3761
• Fax: 82-2-750-6580
• E-mail: [email protected]



2. Bio
• Born in 1965, Seoul, Korea
• Married with 2 children



3. Education
• Ohio State University Ph.D. 2003
• Ohio State University M.A. 2000
• Yonsei University B.A. 1989



4. Career
• Economist, The Bank of Korea since 1989
• Trainee, Commerzbank, Frankfurt am Main 1992
• Trainee, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Washington D.C. 1994

Research

1. Research Interests
• Major Fields: Monetary Economics, Monetary Policy, Macroeconomics
• Inflation Targeting, Central banking and Monetary Policy rules



2. Published Papers
• "Inflation Targeting, Price-Path Targeting, and Output Variability", 2003 (with Stephen Cecchetti)
  (NBER Working Paper No. 9672, May 2003, Inflation Targeting Michael Woodford, Editor. Forthcoming from The University of Chicago Press)



3. Working Papers
• "Efficient Estimation of Inflation in Korea", December 2000
  (Studies estimators of core inflation by trimmed mean.)



• "Optimal Combination of Inflation Targeting and Price level Targeting", June 2001
  (Studies a hybrid of inflation targeting and price-level targeting.



• "A Note on Optimal Targeting Horizon" 2002
  (Studies the relationship between targeting regimes and the targeting horizon.)



• "Conservative Central Bank and Output Volatility" 2003
  (Studies central the realationship between banks' weight on price stability and output volatility.)



• "Nominal Interest rate lower bound and Probability of Liquidity Trap" (in Korean) 2004. 1
  (Estimates the non-zero nominal interest rate lower bound and probability of liquidity trap



4. Work in Progress
• "Central bank and Supervision; A Survey" (in Korean)
  (Surveys the literature on trade-offs between monetary policy and prudential supervision)



• "Optimal Targeting Horizon and Medium term policy regime", (in Korean)
  (Studies the implication of optimal targeting horizon on Medium term monetary policy regime in Korea



• "Capital Adequacy Requirement and Business Cycle"
  (Models endogenous bank capitals to see how central banks should react to procyclical CAR)



• "Capital Adequacy Requirement and Monetary Policy"
  (Does CAR matter? If so, How should Central banks react?)

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