Asst Prof Kang Min Wook

Assistant Professor
Economics
School of Social Sciences
College of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences

Email: MWKANG@NTU.EDU.SG
Phone: (+65)65138162
Office: HSS-04-58

• PhD (Economics) Cornell University 2013
• MA (Economics) University of Pennsylvania 2006
• MS (Electrical Engineering) University of California, Los Angeles 2005
• BS (Electrical Engineering) Seoul National University 2001

• Studies on the Effect of Precautionary Savings on the Economy with Extrinsic Uncertainty, and Strategic Environmental Regulations in an Open Economy
• Theoretical Approaches to the Impact of Extrinsic Uncertainty (Animal Spirit; Sunspots; Market Psychology) on Inflation, Price-level
• Three ways to overcome present bias under the hyperbolic consumption model

• Minwook Kang. (2018). The Welfare Cost of Excess Volatility in Incomplete Markets with Sunspots. Macroeconomic Dynamics, Forthcoming.
• Minwook Kang. (2018). Comparative Advantage and Strategic Specialization. Review of International Economics, 26(1), 1-19.
• Cozzi, G., Goenka, A., Kang, M., Shell, K.(2017). Winners and Losers from Price-Level Volatility: Money Taxation and Information Frictions. In Nishimura, K., Venditti, A., and N. C. Yannelis(Ed), Sunspots and Non-Linear Dynamics(387-402). Springer.
• Kang, M. and L. S. Ye. (2016). Advantageous redistribution with three smooth CES utility functions. Journal of Mathematical Economics, 67, 171-180.
• Kannai, Y., Selden, L., Kang, M., Wei, X. (2016). Risk neutrality regions. Journal of Mathematical Economics, 62, 75–89.