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)
 Assistant Chief: Bureau of Budget, 1982-1984 
 Assistant Chief: Bureau of Public Project Evaluation, 1980-1982

Other Affiliations

Associate Editor, Economics Bulletin, 2010- present

Editorial Board, Journal of Urban Economics, 2003-2014

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

“Moral Hazard in Public Health Policies,” Applied Economics, forthcoming.

“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.

“Amenities and Wage Premiums: the Role of Services” (with Chung-Yi Tse), Annals of Regional Science, (2022): 1-27.

“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

“Working From Home, Wages, Housing Prices, and Welfare”

“Should the Old Yield to the Young?: (In)Efficiency of Mandatory Retirement”

“Federalism, Jurisdictional Policy Choice, and Income Inequality”

“Green Targets and Distributive Consequences”

“Green Technologies, Green Targets, and Emission Taxes”

“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

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 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, PLOS ONE, Public Finance Review, Real Estate Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Resource and Energy Economics, 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