Professor Youn Kim

 429 Grise Hall
Phone:  (270) 745-3187
Web Address: http://www.wku.edu/~youn.kim
E-mail:  youn.kim@wku.edu

EDUCATION:

 Ph.D., Economics, University of Cincinnati
M.A., Economics, University of Cincinnati
B.A., Economics, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

 Dr. Kim specializes in microeconomics and its applications to macroeconomics, finance, and public economics.  He has done extensive research on consumer behavior and production and cost structure of firms.  His current research focuses on asset pricing, precautionary saving, risk sharing, and dynamic efficiency.  He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in statistics, managerial economics, public economics, environmental economics, and advanced micro and macroeconomics.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

 Dr. Kim's publications include "The Translog Production Function and Variable Returns to Scale," Review of Economics and Statistics; "Frisch Demand Functions and Intertemporal Substitution in Consumption," Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking; "Economies of Scale in Multiproduct Firms," Economica; "The Consumer Demand for Education," Journal of Human Resources; "Inverse Demand Systems and Welfare Measurement in Quantity Space," Southern Economic Journal; "Functionality Separability and Elasticities of Complementarity," American Journal of Agricultural Economics; "Municipal Bonds and Tax Arbitrage," Public Finance Review; and "Intertemporal Production and Asset Pricing: A Duality Approach," Oxford Economic Papers.  He is a member of several academic associations and has reviewed many papers for publications in economic journals.  He received grants from the EPA and National Science Foundation.