About Me
I am a PhD candidate in Economics at Yale University. I am on the 2026–27 job market.
My research lies at the intersection of international, spatial, and environmental economics. I study how firms organize and adjust production across locations and how these decisions shape aggregate and distributional outcomes. I pursue this research agenda by combining reduced-form empirical methods with structural modeling. The agenda has two strands. One strand examines how environmental and energy policies reshape production and pollution across space and over time, with applications to manufacturing, power generation, transportation, and buildings. The other studies how multinational production is organized and how international trade and finance interact.
Email: cheolhwan.kim@yale.edu
Office: 27 Hillhouse Ave, New Haven, CT 06511
Working Papers
The Spatial Consequences of Industrial Environmental Regulation
Job Market Paper
Deep Industrial Decarbonization: Theory and Evidence from South Korea
with
Costas Arkolakis
and
Emmanuel Murray Leclair
Public and Private Investment in Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure
with
Seung-Yong Yoo
(Seung-Yong’s Job Market Paper; slides available upon request)
An Anatomy of Multinational Production: Evidence from Affiliate Labor Composition
with
Wei Xiang
Work In Progress
Effects of Tariff Shocks under the International Financial Trilemma
with
Yeon Jik Lee
The Energy Transition of Buildings: Evidence from Korea
Undergraduate
- Introductory Macroeconomics, Yale University, Spring 2026 — Teaching Assistant
- International Finance, Yale University, Fall 2024 — Teaching Assistant
- Introductory Macroeconomics, Yale University, Fall 2022 — Teaching Assistant
- Macroeconomics, Seoul National University, Spring/Fall 2018 — Teaching Assistant
Graduate
- Macroeconomics (PhD), Yale University, Spring 2023 — Teaching Assistant
- Recent Trends in Macroeconomics, Seoul National University, Spring 2020 — Teaching Assistant
- Advanced Macroeconomics, Seoul National University, Fall 2019 — Teaching Assistant
- Topics in International Monetary Economics, Seoul National University, Spring 2019 — Teaching Assistant