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Monetary Affairs Staff | Monetary Studies Section
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Jinill Kim
Senior Economist
Monetary Studies Section
Division of Monetary Affairs

Contact Information
202-452-2981
jinill.kim@frb.gov

Fields of Interest
Monetary Economics
Macroeconomics

Education
Ph.D., Economics, Yale University, 1996
M.A., Economics, Seoul National University, 1991
B.A., Economics, Seoul National University, 1989

Professional Experience
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 2003-present
Assistant Professor, University of Virginia, 1998-2003
Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University, 1998-2009
Economist, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 1996-1998

Selected Publications

  • ''Solving the Incomplete Markets Model with Aggregate Uncertainty Using a Perturbation Method'' (with Sunghyun Kim and Robert Kollmann), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (forthcoming).
  • ''How Much Inflation is Necessary to Grease the Wheels?'' (with Francisco Ruge-Murcia), Journal of Monetary Economics, vol. 56 (2009), pp. 365-377.
  • ''Calculating and Using Second Order Accurate Solutions of Discrete Time Dynamic Equilibrium Models'' (with Sunghyun Kim, Ernst Schaumburg, and Christopher Sims), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, vol. 32 (2008), pp. 3397-3414.
  • ''Two Pitfalls of Linearization Methods'' (with Sunghyun Kim), Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, vol. 39 (2007), pp. 995-1001.
  • ''Inflation Targeting and Nominal-Income-Growth Targeting: When and Why Are They Suboptimal?'' (with Dale Henderson), Journal of Monetary Economics, vol. 52 (2005), pp. 1463-1495.
  • ''Does Utility Curvature Matter for Indeterminacy?'' Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 57 (2005), pp. 421-429.
  • ''What Determines Aggregate Returns to Scale?'' Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, vol. 28 (2004), pp. 1577-1594.
  • ''Patience, Persistence, and Welfare Costs of Incomplete Markets in Open Economies'' (with Sunghyun Kim and Andrew Levin), Journal of International Economics, vol. 61 (2003), pp. 385-396.
  • ''Spurious Welfare Reversals in International Business Cycle Models'' (with Sunghyun Kim), Journal of International Economics, vol. 60 (2003), pp. 471-500.
  • ''Functional Equivalence between Intertemporal and Multisectoral Investment Adjustment Costs,'' Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, vol. 27 (2003), pp. 533-549.
  • ''Indeterminacy and Investment Adjustment Costs: An Analytic Result,'' Macroeconomic Dynamics, vol. 7 (2003), pp. 394-406.
  • ''Constructing and Estimating a Realistic Optimizing Model of Monetary Policy,'' Journal of Monetary Economics, vol. 45 (2000), pp. 329-359.

Last update: December 4, 2009