education:

Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 1997
M.A., Seoul National University, 1989
B.A., Seoul National University, 1987

professional experience

Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, 2004 – present
Visiting Associate Professor, Korea University, Korea, Fall 2007
Visiting Assistant Professor, Yale University, Fall 2003-Spring 2004
Assistant Professor, Northern Illinois University, 2001-2003
Lecturer, University of Manchester, 1998-2000

research interests

Analytical Political Economy; Public Economics, Income Distribution, Microeoconomics

teaching

Econ 309: Game theory (undergraduate)
Econ 313: Public Finance (undergraduate)
Econ 702: Game Theory (graduate)
Econ 797I: Political economy of distribution (graduate)

professional activities

Editorial board, Journal of Econometrics and Economic Theory, 2007-

Selected publications

Racism, Xenophobia, and Distribution: Multi-Issue Politics in Advanced Democracies (with John Roemer and Karine van der Straeten), 2007, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
"Moral values and distributive politics in the US: An equilibrium analysis of the 2004 election," in press, Ian Shapiro, Peter Swenson, and Daniela Donno eds. , Divide and Deal: The Politics of Distribution in Democracies (with John Roemer) New York, NY: New York University Press
“Political competition and democratic distributive politics,” 2007, Review of Social and Economic Studies 29 (1)
"Racism, xenophobia and redistribution," 2006, Journal of the European Economic Association (with John Roemer and Karine van der Straeten)
"Racism and redistribution in the United States: A solution to the problem of American Exceptionalism," 2006, Journal of Public Economics (with John Roemer)
"The rise and fall of unionized labor markets: A political economy approach," 2005, Economic Journal 115 (1), 28-67 (with John Roemer)
"Mobility and tax competition when wages are endogenously determined," 2004, Economics Letters 83 (3), 347-353
"Is democracy more expropriative than dictatorship? Tocquevillian wisdom revisited," 2003, Journal of Development Economics 71 (1), 155-198
"Inequality and redistribution revisited," 1999, Economics Letters 65 (3), 339-346 (with John Roemer)
"Income distribution, redistributive politics and economic growth," 1998, Journal of Economic Growth 3, 217-240 (with John Roemer)