Duksang Cho

Fellow
Korea Development Institute (KDI)
263 Namsejong-ro, Sejong-si
South Korea, 30149

phone: +82-44-550-4046
e-mail: dscho@kdi.re.kr

Research Interests

• Macroeconomics

Employment

• Fellow, KDI, July 2021 - Present
• Associate Fellow, KDI, June 2016 - June 2021

Education

• Ph.D. in Economics, Washington University in St. Louis, 2016
• M.A. in Economics, Washington University in St. Louis, 2012
• Graduate Coursework in Economics, Seoul National University, 2008-2010
• B.S. in Physics summa cum laude, KAIST, 2008
• Seoul Science High School, 2000

Publications

• Women's Risk of Career Breaks and South Korea's Declining Total Fertility Rate (with Jungmin Han)
  KDI Focus, 2024 (in Korean)


• Inflation Expectations Through the Lens of the Slack in the Real Estate Asset Market
  KDI Policy Study, 2023 (in Korean)


• The COVID-19 Pandemic and Business Cycle: With the Focus on Comparision with Past Economic Crisis
  (Chapter 2 in the "Macroeconomic Challenges and Policy Direction for the Post-COVID Era, Jung et al.")
  KDI Research Monograph, 2021 (in Korean)


• Social Distancing, Labor Supply, and Income Distribution
  KDI Journal of Economic Policy, 2021


• The Covid-19 Pandemic and Household Consumption (with Changwoo Nam)
  KDI Feature Article, KDI Economic Outlook 2021-1st Half, 2021 (in Korean)


• The Economic Implication of Land Purchase: A Study on the Net Purchase of Land by Corporate Sector Over the Long Term (with Jiyoon Oh)
  KDI Research Monograph, 2019 (in Korean)


• Pyramidal Business Groups and Asymmetric Financial Frictions
  KDI Journal of Economic Policy, 2019


• Analysis of the Factors of the Recent Growth in the Korean Economy (with Kyooho Kwon)
  (Chapter 2 in the "A Decade after the Global Financial Crisis and a New Growth Agenda for the Korean Economy, edited by Hyeonwook Kim")
  KDI Research Monograph, 2018 (in Korean)


• Causes of Increased Corporate Savings and the Ripple Effects on Growth and the Distribution Structure
  (Chapter 4 in the "A Decade after the Global Financial Crisis and a New Growth Agenda for the Korean Economy, edited by Hyeonwook Kim")
  KDI Research Monograph, 2018 (in Korean)


• Business Groups and Declining Allocative Efficiency in Korea
  KDI Policy Forum, 2018


• Economic Dynamism of Korea: With a Focus on the Economic Concentration of Business Groups
  KDI Policy Study, 2017 (in Korean)


• Recent Equipment Investment Trends: Focusing on the Manufacturing Capacity Utilization Rate (with Daehee Jeong)
  KDI Feature Article, KDI Economic Outlook 2017-1st Half, 2017 (in Korean)


• Aspects and Macroeconomic Implications of the Increasing Share of Business Groups
  KDI Feature Article, KDI Economic Outlook 2016-2nd Half, 2016 (in Korean)

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