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Jinook Jeong
  • Professor of Economics
  • Ph.D. in Economics, Univeristy of Florida, 1990
  • M.A. in Economics, Yonsei University, 1985
  • B.A. in Economics, Yonsei University, 1983
  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Florida,1990-1991
  • Assistant Professor of Economics, Emory University, 1991-1994

Email: jinook@yonsei.ac.kr
Tel: 02-2123-2493

Education

Ph.D. in Economics, Univeristy of Florida, 1990
M.A. in Economics, Yonsei University, 1985
B.A. in Economics, Yonsei University, 1983

Courses and Current Research Areas

Econometrics, Empirical Microeconomics, Health Economics

Research in Progress

  • "Bootstrap Estimation of Limited Dependent Variable Models"
  • "Bootstrapping the Cointegration Regression"

Other Research Experience

  • Refereed papers for Journal of Econometrics, the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Accounting Review,
    Korean Economic Review, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Theory and Econometrics, International Review of Economics and Finance, and Handbook of Statistics
  • Economics Specialist for Ford in the lawsuit case of Sperau vs. Ford, 1993
  • Economics Specialist for the lawsuit case of Korean Army vs. Korean Oil Companies, 2002-2005
  • "Bootstrap Confidence Interval of R2"
  • "Effects of Measurement Errors in Cointegration Tests of the Rational Expectations Hypothesis" (with G.S. Maddala)
  • "The Ratchet Effect of Incentive Regulation for Electric Utilities" (with S.V. Berg)

Selected Publications

Publications

  • "An Evaluation of Incentive Regulations in Electric Utilities," Journal of Regulatory Economics 3, pp.45-55. (1991) (with S.V. Berg)
  • "A Note on the Optimality of the Rational Expectations Hypothesis," Australian Economic Papers, December 1991, pp.341-347, (1991)
  • "Measurement Errors and Tests for Rationality," Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 9, pp.431-439. (1991) (with G.S. Maddala) (reprinted in Econometric methods and applications, Volume 1, 1994, pp.493-501 Economists of the Twentieth Century series, Edward Elgar.)
  • "On the Exact Small Sample Distribution of the Instrumental Variables Estimator," Econometrica 60, pp.181-183. (1992) (with G.S. Maddala)
  • "Charitable Contributions by Low- and Middle-Income Taxpayers: Further Evidence with a New Method," National Tax Journal 46, pp.33-39 (1993) (with Y.S. Choe)
  • "A Perspective on Application of Bootstrap Methods in Econometrics," Handbook of Statistics, Volume 11: Econometrics, (ed) by G.S. Maddala, C.R. Rao and H.D. Vinod, pp.573-610, North-Holland, Amsterdam. (1993) (with G.S. Maddala)
  • "An Evaluation of Incentive Regulation: Corrections and Extensions," Journal of Regulatory Economics 6, pp.321-328 (1994) (with S.V. Berg)
  • “Provider Cost and Coronary Revascularization: An Econometric Approach,” Econometrics of Health Care Evaluation: Vol. 7 (1994) (with P.D. Mauldin, E.R. Becker and W.S. Weintraub)
  • "A Comparative Analysis on Industrial Patterns of Productive Efficiency," Ajou Social Science Review 10, pp.347-369. (1995) (with D. Suh)
  • "Indirect Taxation of Externalities," Ajou Social Science Review 11, pp.293-308. (1996).
  • "Estimating the Weighting Component of Health Quality Index," Biometical Journal 38, pp.779-790. (1996) (with P.D. Mauldin)
  • "Testing the Rationality of Survey Data Using the Weighted Double-Bootstrapped Method of Moments," Review of Economics and Statistics 78, pp.296-302. (1996) (with G.S. Maddala)
  • "A Study on the Cost-Effectiveness of Coronary Revascularization: Introducing the Simultaneous MIMIC Health Status Model," Health Economics 6, pp.613-623. (1997) (with J. Lee, M.J. Bailey and P.D. Mauldin)
  • "A Review of Bootstrap Confidence Intervals," Ajou Social Science Review 14, pp.125-135. (1998)
  • "A Multiple Outcome Model to Assess Cost-effectiveness: Results from the Emory Angioplasty versus Surgery Trial (EAST)," Biometrical Journal 41, pp.3-23. (1999) (with P.D. Mauldin, W.S. Weintraub and E.R. Becker)
  • "Bootstrapped White’s Test for Heteroskedasticity in Regression Models," Economics Letters 63, pp.261-267. (1999) (with K.W. Lee)
  • “Bootstrapped Durbin-Watson Test for Autocorrelation,” Korean Journal of Money and Finance 5, pp.157-176. (2000) (with S. Chung), in Korean.
  • "Bootstrap Tests for Autocorrelation," Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 38, pp.49-69 (2001) (with S. Chung)
  • “Employment Effects of Road Constructions in Korea,” Korea Review of Applied Economics 5-1 (2003), in Korean.
  • “An Analysis of Television Viewing Patterns and Prediction of Ratings: Case of Korea,” Yonsei Economic Studies 10-1 (2003), in Korean.
  • "An Empirical Analysis on the Efficiency and Risk Premium of Korean Stock Futures Market," Journal of the Korean Econometric Society 14, pp.25-43 (2003) (with M. Kim), in Korean.
  • “Bootstrapping Durbin-Wu-Hausman Test,” Journal of the Korean Econometric Society 15, pp.107-119 (2004) (with S.Y. Lee), in Korean.
  • "An Endogeneity-Corrected Bootstrap Test on Instrument Relevance in Instrumental Variables Estimation," Korean Economic Review 20, pp.3-33 (2004)
  • “An Analysis on the Efficiency of Korean Public Enterprises Using a Stochastic Frontier Model,” Korean Journal of Public Economics 9, pp.47-76 (2004) (with S.K. Yim), in Korean.
  • “Technological Change and Wage Premium in a Small Open Economy: An Inter-Industry Analysis,” Applied Economics 37, pp.119-131 (2005) (with Kang-Shik Choi).
  • “Income Distribution and Determinants of Self-Employment: Quantile Regression Analysis,” Korean Labor Economics Association Dissertation 28, pp.135-156 (2005) (with Kang-Shik Choi and Jin Hwa Jung), in Korean.
  • "A Comparison of Self-Selectivity Corrections in Health Economics," Value in Health 8, pp.656-666 (2005) (with E. Becker, P.D. Mauldin and W.S. Weintraub)
  • “The Want, its Determinants and the Willingness to Pay of the Long Term Care Service,” Korean Journal of Health Policy and Administration 15, pp.136-160 (2005) (with Hyuncheol Kim, Narei Hong, Byeong Kil Yeon, Tae-kyu Park, and Woojin Chung), in Korean.
  • "Does Unmeasured Ability Explain the Wage Premium Associated with Technological Change?: Quantile Regression Analysis," Applied Economics 39, pp.1163-1171 (2007) (with K. Choi).
  • "Analysis of Employment Protection Laws and Unemployment Benefits," Economics Letters 99, pp.144-146 (2008) (with Yoon-Kyung Chung)

Papers under Review

  • "The Effect of Pseudo-exogenous Instrumental Variables on Hausman Test," (under review at Economics Letters ) (with Byung H. Yoon)
  • “Wild-bootstrapped Variance Ratio Test for Autocorrelation in the Presence of Heteroskedasticity,” (under review at Journal of Business and Economic Statistics) (with Byunguk Kang)
  • "The Effect of Pseudo-exogenous Instrumental Variables on Hausman Test," (under review at Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics) (with Byung H. Yoon)
  • "R2-based Bootstrap Tests for Nonnested Hypotheses in Regression Models," (under review at Statistics and Computing)
  • "The Effect of a Variance Shift on the Breusch-Godfrey’'s LM Test," (under review at Applied Economics) (with Joo-Yeon Hyun and Tae-Hwan Kim)
  • "Simultaneous Equation Estimates of the Effects of Substance Exposure on Infant Health Endowment and Medicaid Costs in the First Two Years of Life," (with W.H. Crown and E.K. Adams) (under review at Journal of Human Resources)

Papers Presented at Professional Meetings

  • "Rational Expectations in Limited Dependent Variable Models," (with G.S. Maddala) (presented at the 1991 Far Eastern Meeting of the Econometric Society, Seoul, Korea, June 29-30, 1991)
  • "A New Test for Rationality of Survey Data Using the Bootstrapped Method of Moments," (with G.S. Maddala) (presented at the Korea-America Economic Association Meeting at Seoul, August 20-21, 1992.)
  • "Heteroskedasticity and a Nonparametric Test for Rationality of Survey Data Using the Weighted Double Bootstrap," (with G.S. Maddala) (accepted for presentation at the European Econometric Society Meeting at Brussel, August 24-28, 1992.)
  • “Provider Cost and Coronary Revascularization: An Econometric Approach,” (with P.D. Mauldin, E.R. Becker, W.S. Weintraub) (presented at the 43rd International Conference of Applied Econometrics Association, Lyons, France, July 7-8, 1994)
  • “A Heteroskedasticity-Robust Test of the Rationality Using the Double-Bootstrapped Method of Moments,” (accepted for presentation at the 1994 Australian Meeting of Econometric Society, Armisdale, Australia, July 13-15, 1994)
  • "A Bootstrap Test on Instrument Relevance in IV Estimation," (presented at Annual Meeting of Korean Econometric Society, December 1995)
  • "Bootstrapped White’s Test for Heteroskedasticity in Regression Models," (with Kyoungwoo Lee) (presented at Annual Meeting of Korean Econometric Society, December 1998)
  • “Bootstrapped Durbin-Watson Test for Autocorrelation,” (with Seoung Chung) (presented at Ajou Conference on Econometrics in Honor of Professor Tong H. Lee, August 1999)
  • “Bootstrap Estimation of Limited Dependent Variable Models,” (presented at Summer Meeting of Korean Econometric Society, August 2002)

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Honors and Awards

  • Fellow, International Workshop on Expectations and Learning, Siena, Italy, June 1990.
  • University Research Award, "Application of Bootstrap in Time Series Analysis of Long-Run Economic Relations," 1992, Emory University.
  • 'Professors of the Year' Award, Named by Phi Beta Kappa, "Professor who has encouraged and helped their students to excel and who exemplified intellectual rigor and enthusiasm for scholarly pursuit," 1993.
  • 1996 Best Research Paper Award, Ajou University, August 1997.
  • 'Teachers of the Year' Award, Yonsei University, 2007

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