ACADEMIC POSITION (including scheduled)
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University, 2023 - 2024
(Louis A. Simpson Center for the Study of Macroeconomics, Department of Economics)
Assistant Professor of Economics, Pennsylvania State University, 2024 -
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Economics, University of Maryland, 2023
M.A., Economics, University of Maryland, 2019
M.A., Economics, Seoul National University, South Korea, 2017
B.A., Economics, Summa Cum Laude, Seoul National University, South Korea, 2015
FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION
Macroeconomics, Firm Dynamics, Innovation, Economic Growth, Labor
WORKING PAPERS
“Workers' Job Prospects and Young Firm Dynamics” (Job Market Paper)
“Competition, Firm Innovation, and Growth under Imperfect Technology Spillovers”, with Karam Jo
“Improving Patent Assignee-Firm Bridge with Web Search Results”, with Karam Jo and Yuheng Ding
“Product Switching and Young Firm Dynamics over the Business Cycle”, with Karam Jo
WORK IN PROGRESS
"Cyclical Dynamics of Young Firms through the lens of Workers' Job Prospects"
"Measuring Real Sales and Inflation: Official Statistics vs Economics Transactions Data", with Gabriel Ehrlich, John Haltiwanger, David Johnson, Jake Kramer, Michael A. Navarrete, Edward Olivares, R. Benjamin Rodriguez, and Matthew Shapiro
“Geospatial Heterogeneity in Inflation: A Market Concentration Story”, with Michael A. Navarrete
PUBLICATION
“Sectoral Heterogeneity in Nominal Rigidities in Korea: Implications for Monetary Policy”, with Jae Won Lee,
Korean Economic Review Volume 36, Number 1, Winter 2020, 59-99. [Journal Page] (Predoctoral Research)
RESEARCH AND RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE
Special Sworn Status (SSS) Researcher, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 -
PhD Fellow, Workshop on Entrepreneurial Finance and Innovation, 2021 - 2023
Research Assistant, Prof. John Haltiwanger, University of Maryland, 2020 - 2023
Dissertation Fellow, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 2022
Entrepreneurship Research Boot Camp, NBER, 2020
PhD Intern, Fund Internship Program, International Monetary Fund, 2020
Research Associate, The Bank of Korea Economic Research Institute, 2017
Research Assistant, Prof. Jae Won Lee, Seoul National University, 2016
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Maryland
Instructor, Principles of Macroeconomics (undergrad), Summer 2019 - 2020, Winter 2020
Instructor, Macro Comprehensive Exam Session (Ph.D. core), Summer 2019 - 2020
Teaching Assistant, Macroeconomic Analysis II (Ph.D. core), Spring 2019 - 2020
Teaching Assistant, Macroeconomic Analysis I (Ph.D. core), Fall 2018 - 2019
Teaching Assistant, Money and Banking (undergrad), Spring 2018
Teaching Assistant, Intermediate Macroeconomics (undergrad), Fall 2017
GRANTS AND AWARDS
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Assistance Funds, 2020 - 2023
Graduate Assistantship, Department of Economics, University of Maryland, 2017 - 2023
Best Job Market Paper Award, Korea-America Economic Association, 2022
Best Paper in Entrepreneurial Cognition, Finalist, Academy of Management and Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, 2022
American Economic Association Summer Dissertation Fellowship, 2022
BSOS Dean’s Research Initiative Doctoral Dissertation Award, University of Maryland, 2022
Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Grant, University of Maryland, 2022
Royal Economic Society Conference Award, 2021
International Conference Student Support Award, University of Maryland, 2021
Hayak Fund for Scholars, Institute for Human Studies, 2020
BSOS Dean’s Research Initiative Travel Grant, University of Maryland, 2020
National Research Fellowship for Humanities, Korea Student Aid Foundation, 2016
Graduate Assistantship, Department of Economics, Seoul National University, 2015 - 2016
Brain Korea 21+ Scholarship, Seoul National University, 2015 - 2016
Merit-based Scholarship, Seoul National University, 2012 - 2014
Superior Academic Performance Scholarship, Seoul National University, 2010
CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS (* scheduled, † co-author presented, § virtual)
2023: University of Michigan, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Penn State University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, SUNY at Buffalo, Federal Reserve Board, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, City University of Hong Kong§, Korea Development Institute§, OECD§, Hong Kong University (declined), WEAI International Conference§, SOLE (Philadelphia), Midwest Macro Spring 2023 Meeting (Clemson), Yonsei University*, Society for Economic Dynamics 2023 (Cartagena)*, WEAI Annual Conference*§, KER-KAEA International Conference (Yeosu)*, AMES 2023 (Singapore)*, AIEA-NBER Conference (Taipei)*, EEA-ESEM 2023 (Barcelona)*, APPAM 2023 Fall Research Conference (Atlanta)*, SEA Annual Meeting (New Orleans)*
2022: MEA Annual Meeting (Minneapolis), U.S. Census CES Seminar†§, North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society 2022 (Miami), Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society 2022§, RES Symposium of Junior Researchers 2022§, WEAI Annual Conference§, Australasian Meeting of the Econometric Society 2022§, Academy of Management Annual Meeting (Seattle, invited as the Best Paper Award finalist), Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Young Economist Symposium 2022 (Yale), U.S. Census CES Seminar§, 2022 FSRDC Annual Research Conference (Kansas City Fed)†, Korean Econometric Society 2022 Fall Conference (SNU)†, Economics Graduate Student Conference 2022 (WUSTL), KAEA Job Market Conference§, Midwest Macro Fall 2022 Meeting (SMU), SEA Annual Meeting (Fort Lauderdale), Minneapolis Fed Junior Scholar Conference, Korea International Economic Association 2022 Winter Conference (SNU)†
2021: WEAI Virtual International Conference†§, RES 2021 Annual Meeting§, WEAI Annual Conference§, Economics Graduate Student Conference 2021 (WUSTL), Sejong University†, European Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society 2021§
SERVICES
Co-organizer of the Student-led Workshop on Entrepreneurial Finance and Innovation (SEFI)
COMPUTATION SKILLS
Eviews, Fortran, MATLAB, SAS, Stata, R
LANGUAGES
Korean (native), English (fluent), Chinese, French (basic)
PERSONAL
김슬아 (Legal name in Korean); Born in Seoul, South Korea; Married