Curriculum Vitae
Kangoh Lee
Department of Economics
San Diego State University
5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego, CA 92182-4485
e-mail: klee@sdsu.edu
Positions
San Diego State University, Economics Department
Professor: 2006-present
Chair: 2007- 2009
Towson University, Economics Department
Professor: 2000-2006
Associate Professor: 1996-2000
Assistant Professor: 1990-1996
University of Illinois, Economics Department
Lecturer: 1988-1990
Economic Planning Board (Seoul, Korea)
Section Chief: Bureau of Budget, 1982-1984
Section Chief: Bureau of Public Project Evaluation, 1980-1982
Education
Ph. D. in Economics: University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign, 1990
M. A. in Public Administration: Seoul National University,
Seoul, Korea, 1982
B. A. in International Economics: Seoul National University,
Seoul, Korea, 1979
Fields
of Specialization
Applied Microeconomics: Public Economics, Labor Economics, Environmental Economics, Urban Economics, Risk and Insurance
Courses
Taught
Public Economics, Labor Economics, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Health Economics
Research Activities
1.Publications
“Working
From Home, Wages, Housing Prices, and Welfare,” Journal of Economics (2024),
1- 28.
“Amenities and Wage Premiums: the Role of
Services” (with Chung-Yi Tse), Annals of Regional
Science, 72 (2024): 37-63.
“Moral Hazard in Public Health Policies,” Applied Economics (2023),
1-19.
“Working From Home as an Economic and Social Change: A Review,” Labour Economics, 85 (2023), 102462.
“Bold Fiscal Policies for a Net-Zero EU: Promotion of Electric Vehicles
and Expansion of Green Energy,” Energy Reports, 10 (2023), 2944-2949.
“Renewable Portfolio Standards and Electricity Prices,” Energy
Economics, 126 (2023): 106959.
“Airline Operational
Disruptions and Loss-Reduction Investment,” Transportation Research Part B,
177
(2023): 102817.
“High-Speed Internet Access and Diffusion of New Technologies in Nonmetro
Areas” (with Russell Leonard), Telecommunications Policy, (2023): 102620.
“Unemployment Insurance, Mobile
Capital, Output, and Distributive Effects,” Economic Modelling, 115 (2022): 105949.
“Federalism and Primary-Income
Inequality,” Applied Economics, 54 (2022): 6303-6321.
“Pandemics
and Support for Mitigation Measures,” Journal of Economics. 2022, Vol.
136, 73-89.
“Political Power of Older voters, Political Alignment,
and State Responses to Covid-19,” Applied Economics Letters. 2022, Vol.
29, 1027-1032.
“Pandemics,
Mitigation Measures, and Environment,” Environmental and Resource Economics,
2021, Vol. 78, 353-374.
“Labor
Market Frictions, Capital, Taxes, and Employment,” International Tax and
Public Finance. 2021, Vol. 28, 1329-1359.
“Regionalism
meets Samuelson: Local Production of a National Public Good” (with Jan
Brueckner and Steven Craig), Economica, 2021,
Vol. 88, 1-31.
“The
Value and Direction of Innovation,” Journal
of Economics, 2020, Vol. 130, 133-156.
“Absentee Ownership, Land Taxation, and
Surcharge,” Annals of Regional Science,
2019, Vol. 62, 47-68.
“Prudence and Precautionary Effort,” Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2019,
Vol. 86, 151-163.
“Fixed-Rate Mortgages, Labor Markets, and
Efficiency," Journal of Money, Credit and Banking,
2018, Vol. 50, 1033-1072.
“Optimism, Pessimism, Audit Uncertainty, and
Tax Compliance,” B. E. Journal of
Theoretical Economics, 2018, Vol. 1, Article number 20150127.
“Unemployment
and Crime: The Role of Apprehension,” European
Journal of Law and Economics, 2018, Vol. 45, 59-80.
“Rule of Law and Guns: A Cross-Country
Study,” Journal of Institutional and
Theoretical Economics, 2017, Vol. 173, 591-617.
“Optimal Sharing
of Interest-Rate Risk in Mortgage Contracts: The Effects of Potential
Prepayment and Default,” (with Jan
Brueckner) Real Estate Economics, 2017, Vol. 45, 761-784.
“Norms
and Monetary Fines as Deterrents, and Distributive Effects,” Journal of Economics, 2017, Vol. 121,
1-27.
“Consumer Perception, Information Provision,
and Regulation of Insurance Markets,” Journal
of Regulatory Economics, 2017, Vol. 51, 1-17.
“Fairness, One's Source of Income, and Others' Decisions: An Ultimatum
Game Experiment,” (with Quazi Shahriar), Managerial
and Decision Economics, 2017, Vol. 38, 423-431.
“Morality,
Tax Evasion, and Equity,” Mathematical
Social Sciences, 2016, Vol. 82, 97-104.
“Risk
Aversion, the Hand Rule, and Comparison
between Strict Liability and the Negligence Rule,” Review of Law and Economics, 2016, Vol.12, 261-274.
“Negative Campaigning in a Probabilistic voting Model,”
(with Jan Brueckner) Public Choice, 2015,
Vol. 164, pp. 379-399.
“Federalism, Guns, and Jurisdictional
Gun Policies,” Regional Science and Urban
Economics, 2015, Vol. 52, pp. 141-153.
“Timing
of Penalties, Tax Rates, and Tax Evasion,” FinanzArchiv/Public Finance Analysis, 2015, Vol. 71, pp. 37-52.
“Higher Education Expansion, Tracking, and
Student Effort,” Journal of Economics,
2015, Vol. 114, pp. 1-22.
“Second-Best
Liability Rules, Loss-Prevention Incentives, and Efficiency,” Journal of Institutional and Theoretical
Economics, 2014, Vol. 170, pp. 275-295.
“Uncertain Indemnity and the Demand for
Insurance,” Theory and Decision,
2012, Vol. 73, No. 2, pp.249-265.
“Early Selection and Moral Hazard,” Economics Letters, 2012, Vol. 116, No.
2, pp. 139-142.
“Why is Mobile Capital Taxed?” Journal of Economics, 2012, Vol. 107,
No. 2, pp. 157-181.
“Background Risk and Self-Protection,” Economics Letters, 2012, Vol. 114, No.
3, pp. 262-264.
“Wealth Effects on Self-Insurance,” Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, 2010,
Vol. 35, pp. 160-171.
“Risk
Aversion and Self-Insurance,” Journal of
Economics, 2010, Vol. 101, No. 3, pp. 277-282.
“Crime in a Multi-Jurisdictional Model with
Public and Private Crime Prevention,” (with Santiago Pinto), Journal of Regional Science, 2009, Vol.
49, No. 5, pp. 977-996.
“Voluntary
Contributions and Local Public Goods in a Federation,” Journal of Urban Economics, 2008, Vol. 63, No. 1, pp. 163-176.
“Does
Mobility Undermine Income Redistribution?: A
Political-Support Approach to Income Redistribution in a Federation, ” FinanzArchiv/Public Finance Analysis, 2007, Vol. 63,
No.2, pp. 186-210.
“Wealth, Income, and Optimal Insurance,” Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2007,
Vol. 74, No. 1, pp.175-184.
“Voluntary
Provision of Public Goods and Administrative Costs,” Public Finance Review, 2006, Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 195-211.
“Absentee Ownership
of Immobile Factors and Environmental Policies in a Federation,” Environmental
and Resource Economics, 2005, Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 407-417.
“Self-Insurance
and Self-Protection against Monetary Loss and Nonmonetary Loss,” Geneva Risk
and Insurance Review (Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Theory), 2005,
Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 147-159.
“Land Taxation and the Henry George Theorem
under Uncertainty,” Journal of Urban Economics, 2005, Vol. 58, No. 1,
pp. 11-23.
“Taxation
of Mobile Factors as Insurance under Uncertainty,” Scandinavian Journal of
Economics, 2004, Vol. 106, No. 2, pp. 253-272.
"Should
Land and Capital be Taxed at a Uniform Rate?" Canadian Journal of
Economics, 2003, Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 350-372.
"Factor
Ownership and Governmental Strategic Interaction," Journal of Public
Economic Theory, 2003, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 345-361.
"Subsidies
as Sorting Devices," (with William Hoyt) Journal of Urban Economics,
2003, Vol. 53, No. 3, pp. 436-457.
"An
Analysis of Welfare Effects of Legislative Term Limits," Public Choice,
2002, Vol. 110, No. 3, pp. 245-260.
"Factor
Mobility and Income Redistribution in a Federation," Journal of Urban
Economics, 2002, Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 77-100.
"Tax
Evasion and Self-Insurance," Journal of Public Economics, 2001,
Vol. 81, No. 1, pp. 73- 81.
"Risk
Aversion, Self-Insurance-cum-Protection," Journal of Risk and
Uncertainty, 1998, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 139-150.
"Uncertain
Income and Redistribution in a Federal System," Journal of Public
Economics, 1998, Vol. 69, No. 3, pp. 413-433.
"Tax
Evasion, Monopoly, and Nonneutral Profit Taxes," National Tax Journal,
1998, Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 333-338.
"Educational
Vouchers, Welfare Effects and Voting," (with William Hoyt), Journal of
Public Economics, 1998, Vol. 69, No.2, pp. 211-228.
"Tax
Competition with Imperfectly Mobile Capital," Journal of Urban
Economics, 1997, Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 222-242.
"An
Economic Analysis of Public School Choice Plans," Journal of Urban
Economics, 1997, Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 1-22.
"Risk
Taking and Business Income Tax Evasion," Public Finance, 1995, Vol.
50, No. 1, pp. 106-120.
"Optimal
Retail Lease Contract: Principal-Agent Approach," Regional Science and
Urban Economics, 1995, Vol. 25, No. 6, pp. 727-738.
"Moral
Hazard in the Agenda-Setter Model," Southern Economic Journal,
1995, Vol. 62, No. 1, pp. 223-235.
"Bureaucrats
and Tax Limitation," Journal of Urban Economics, 1993, Vol. 34, No.
1, pp. 24-42.
"Moral
Hazard, Insurance and Public Loss Prevention," Journal of Risk and
Insurance, 1992, Vol. 59, No. 2, pp. 275-283.
"Transactions
Cost and Equilibrium Pricing of Congested Public Goods with Imperfect
Information," Journal of Public Economics, 1991, Vol. 45, no. 3,
pp. 337-362.
"Economies
of Scope and Multiproduct Clubs," (with Jan Brueckner) Public Finance
Quarterly, 1991, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp.193-208.
"Club
Theory with a Peer-Group Effect," (with Jan Brueckner) Regional Science
and Urban Economics, 1989, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 399-420.
2. Other Publications
“Unemployment and Crime,” Encyclopedia
of Law and Economics, Springer,
forthcoming.
3. Working Papers
“Gender and Immigration Attitudes
in Europe”
“Renewable Portfolio Standards
and Distributive Effects”
“Should the Old Yield to the Young?: (In)Efficiency of Mandatory Retirement”
“Random Losses, Risk Aversion,
and Self-Protection”
“Migrant Deaths and Attitudes
toward Immigration: Evidence from Eurobarometer Surveys” (with Thiago de
Lucena and Eduardo Polo Muro)
“Gender and Informal Care for
Elderly Parents” (with Matthew Braaksma)
4. Sponsored Research
"Income
Redistribution in a Federal System," NSF, 1999 - 2001.
5. Recent Presentations
Conference Presentation: American Economic Association, American Real Estate and Urban Economic Association, Catalan Economic Society, Econometric Society, Western Economic Association,
European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Public Economic Theory Association. Society for the Study of Economic Inequality
Workshop Presentation: Georgia State University, Goethe University Frankfurt, University of Alberta, University of California-Irvine, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid,
University of Hong Kong
6. Service
Associate Editor, Economics Bulletin, 2010- present
Editorial Board, Journal of Urban Economics,
2003-2014
referee:
American Economic Review, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Annals of
Regional Science, Canadian Journal of Economics, Cato Journal, Defence and
Peace Economics, Ecological Economics, Economic Analysis and Policy, Economic
Inquiry, Economics Bulletin, Economics Letters, Economics and Politics,
Economics of Governance, Economics of Transportation, European Economic Review,
European Journal of Law and Economics, FinanzArchiv/Public Finance Analysis,
Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Theory, German Economic Review,
International Economic Review, International Review of Economics and Finance,
International Review of Law and Economics, International Tax and Public
Finance, Journal of Development Economics,
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Dynamics and
Control, Journal of Economic Psychology, Journal of Economic Studies, Journal
of Economic Theory, Journal of Economics,
Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical
Economics, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Journal of Public
Economics, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Journal of Regional Science,
Journal of Risk and Insurance, Journal of Tax Administration, Journal of Urban
Economics, Metroeconomica, National Tax Journal,
Operations Research, PLOS ONE, Public
Finance Review, Real Estate Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics,
Resource and Energy Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Scandinavian
Actuarial Journal, Scandinavian Journal
of Economics, Seoul Journal of Economics, Social Choice and Welfare, Southern
Economic Journal, Theory and Decision
proposal
reviewer: National Science Foundation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council of Canada