Prof. Young Bin Ahn, PhD

 

Research Interests

  • Applied Econometrics
  • Economic Forecasting
  • Asian Economy
  • Macroeconomics
  • International Economics

 

Education

Ph.D. in Economics
State University of New York at Buffalo, June 2013

M.A. in Economics
State University of New York at Buffalo, February 2013

B.A. in Economics
Yonsei University, August 2006

B.B.A. in Business Administration
Yonsei University, August 2006

 

Publications

  1. Asymmetric loss of macroeconomic forecasts in South Asia: evidence from the SPF survey of India, Indonesia, and Singapore, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, forthcoming, DOI: 10.1080/1540496X.2019.1699788.

  2. Directional Accuracy of Singapore’s Macroeconomic Forecasts (with Yoichi Tsuchiya), The Singapore Economic Review, forthcoming, DOI: 10.1142/S0217590819500541

  3. Asymmetric loss and the Rationality of Inflation Forecasts: Evidence from South Korea (2019) (with Yoichi Tsuchiya), Pacific Economic Review, 24(4), 588-605, DOI: 10.1111/1468-0106.12214

  4. Directional accuracy of urban consumers’ inflation forecasts in China (2018), Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 54(6), 1414-1424, DOI: 10.1080/1540496X.2017.1297933

  5. Directional analysis of consumers’ forecasts of inflation in a small open economy: evidence from South Korea (2016) (with Yoichi Tsuchiya), Applied Economics, 48, 854–864