Yong-Kyun Bae

Education

• Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook
• M.A., Boston University

Courses Taught

• ECMG 212 Statistics for Economics and Management
• ECON 200 Principles of Economics
• ECON 206 Principles of Microeconomics
• ECON 306 Microeconomic Analysis
• ECON 316 Game Theory
• ECON 326 Industrial Organization
• ECON 480 Econometrics
• ECON 410 Public Economics
• ECON 470 Seminar
• ECON 560 Managerial Economics

Biography

I teach Microeconomics courses in the department of Economics and Management. Within this broad area, my fields of specialization are in the areas of applied microeconomics, industrial organization, regulation and public policies, and econometrics. I hold a MA from Boston University and a PhD from State University of New York at Stony Brook, and I’m currently working of Product Recalls and Public Safety. I came to Hood after a year of teaching Intermediate Macroeconomics and Corporate Finance as a visiting assistant professor at Stony Brook.

Research and Teaching Interests

I have presented my research papers in international and national conferences, such as International Industrial Organization Conference. My current research involves vehicle recalls and public safety, primary seat belt laws and offsetting behavior, mail-in-rebate pricing in differentiated markets, product innovation, competition, and industrial evolution, and economic analysis of tort liability law.

Publications

• “The Effects of Automobiles Recalls on the Severity of Accidents”, Economic Inquiry, Forthcoming, 2011 (with Hugo Ben ́ıtez-Silva)  
• “Do Vehicle Recalls Reduce the Number of Accidents? The Case of the U.S. Car Market”, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Forthcoming, 2011 (with Hugo Ben ́ıtez-Silva)  

Work in Progress

• “Primary Seat Belt Laws and Offsetting Behavior: Empirical Evidence from Individual Accident Data”, Under review, 2011  
• “Vertical Differentiation with Product Safety Quality”, Under review, 2010
• "Empirical Mechanism Design: The Case of Automobile Recalls", Working paper, 2011 (with Sandro Brusco and Hugo Ben ́ıtez-Silva)
• "What Make Car Owners Actively Respond to Vehicle Recalls?", Working paper, 2011
• “Are Rebates Superior to Coupons?: Rationality Versus Slippage”, Working paper, 2009