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Sang Seok Lee
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Professor of Economics
Sang Seok Lee is a Professor of Economics at the Asia School of Business. He is a macroeconomist interested in monetary policy and central banking, international macroeconomics, and macroeconomic history. He is a research affiliate of the Centre for Economic Policy Research and a member of the Research Experts Panel at the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Research Academy.
Sang’s research has been published in academic journals such as the American Economic Review, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of International Economics, and the Journal of Monetary Economics. He obtained a DPhil in economics from the University of Oxford in 2014.
- The Ends of 27 Big Depressions (with Martin Ellison and Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke), American Economic Review, Vol. 114(1), January 2024.
- Exchange Rate and Inflation under Weak Monetary Policy: Turkey Verifies Theory (with Refet S. Gürkaynak and Burçin Kısacıkoğlu), Economic Policy, Vol. 38(115), July 2023.
- Stock Market’s Assessment of Monetary Policy Transmission: The Cash Flow Effect (with Refet S. Gürkaynak and Hatice Gökçe Karasoy-Can), Journal of Finance, Vol. 77(4), August 2022.
- The Economic Impact of Recession Announcements (with Andrew C. Eggers and Martin Ellison), Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 120, May 2021.
- Monetary Policy Surprises and Exchange Rate Behavior (with Refet S. Gürkaynak, A. Hakan Kara and Burçin Kısacıkoğlu), NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2020, Published by Journal of International Economics, Vol. 130, May 2021.
- Information Value of the Interest Rate and the Zero Lower Bound, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Vol. 24(7), October 2020.
- The Asian Financial Crisis and International Reserve Accumulation: A Robust Control Approach (with Paul Luk), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol. 90, May 2018.
Sang Seok Lee is a Professor of Economics at the Asia School of Business. He is a macroeconomist interested in monetary policy and central banking, international macroeconomics, and macroeconomic history. He is a research affiliate of the Centre for Economic Policy Research and a member of the Research Experts Panel at the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Research Academy.
Sang’s research has been published in academic journals such as the American Economic Review, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of International Economics, and the Journal of Monetary Economics. He obtained a DPhil in economics from the University of Oxford in 2014.
- The Ends of 27 Big Depressions (with Martin Ellison and Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke), American Economic Review, Vol. 114(1), January 2024.
- Exchange Rate and Inflation under Weak Monetary Policy: Turkey Verifies Theory (with Refet S. Gürkaynak and Burçin Kısacıkoğlu), Economic Policy, Vol. 38(115), July 2023.
- Stock Market’s Assessment of Monetary Policy Transmission: The Cash Flow Effect (with Refet S. Gürkaynak and Hatice Gökçe Karasoy-Can), Journal of Finance, Vol. 77(4), August 2022.
- The Economic Impact of Recession Announcements (with Andrew C. Eggers and Martin Ellison), Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 120, May 2021.
- Monetary Policy Surprises and Exchange Rate Behavior (with Refet S. Gürkaynak, A. Hakan Kara and Burçin Kısacıkoğlu), NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2020, Published by Journal of International Economics, Vol. 130, May 2021.
- Information Value of the Interest Rate and the Zero Lower Bound, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Vol. 24(7), October 2020.
- The Asian Financial Crisis and International Reserve Accumulation: A Robust Control Approach (with Paul Luk), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol. 90, May 2018.