

Yongseok Shin
Douglass C. North Distinguished Professor of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis
Yongseok Shin is the Douglass C. North Distinguished Professor of Economics at Washington University in St. Louis, and Research Fellow at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. He is a macroeconomist, but his research draws heavily on micro-level data and emphasizes how the decision making by individual workers and firms shapes the aggregate economy. His earlier research focused on the role of financial markets in economic development. His current projects study the impact of technological progress on economic inequality.
Recent work by Yongseok Shin
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The plant-level view of an industrial policy: The Korean heavy industry drive of 1973
Korea’s promotion of heavy and chemical industries would have been more successful if it had not come with a rise in concentration and misallocation
Published 25.10.21