Joonhyung Lee

I am an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the PhD Program in Economics at the Fogelman College of Business and Economics, University of Memphis. I earned my PhD and MS in Economics from The University of Texas at Austin and a BS from Korea University. My primary research focuses on International Trade.

Research

  • Tacit knowledge in management roles: evidence from the use of expatriates in South Korean MNCs (with Carmen Astorne), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2025, 237, 107158

  • Implementation of a Faith Community Nursing Transition of Care Program in the USA: A Propensity Score Matching Analysis (with Ahn, S., Munning, K., Campbell, K., Ziebarth, D., & Owen.), Journal of Religion and Health, 2025 Apr, 64(2), 803-820

  • The impact of the US-China trade war on domestic and multinational companies in China (with Duy Nguyen), World Economy, 2023, 46, 2990–2998

  • The Price Effect of China Tire Safeguard (with Sunghoon Chung), Applied Economics, 2022, 54(10)

  • Does Aid for Trade promote vertical specialization? (with JunYun Kim and Hongshik Lee), Asian Economic Journal, 2022, 34(2)

  • The role of foreign affiliate productivity in the integration strategies of the multinational firm (with Jae Joon Han and Hongshik Lee), World Economy, 2019, 42(5), 1576-1597

  • An empirical investigation on the transfer of expatriates within MNCs from a knowledge perspective (with Carmen Astorne-Figari), Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 81(4), 780-796

  • Evaluation of a Behavioral Intervention with Multiple Components among Low-income, Uninsured Adults with Obesity and Diabetes, (with Ahn, S., Post, L., Bartlett-Prescott, J., & Ward, K.), American Journal of Health Promotion 32(2018), p.409-422

  • Did China Tire Safeguard Save U.S. Workers? (with Sunghun Chung and Thomas Osang), European Economic Review 85(2016), p.22-38

  • The Impacts of Offshoring on Temporary Workers: Evidence on Wages from South Korea, (with Hongshik Lee), Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv) 151 (2015), p.555-587

  • Technology diffusion and host-country productivity in South-South FDI flows, (with Hyukwhang Kim and Hongshik Lee), Japan and the World Economy 33(2015), p.1-10 (ADB working paper version: Foreign Direct Investment, Technology Diffusion, and Host Country Productivity Growth)

  • The Transfer of Workers within Multinationals and Ownership of Foreign Affiliates, Economics Letters 125 (2014), p.149-152

  • How and Where to Offshore: A Productivity Comparison at the Firm Level, (with Jae Joon Han and Hongshik Lee), Applied Economics 46 (2014), p. 1704-1715

  • Language, Ethnicity, and Intra Firm Trade, (with Peter Debaere and Hongshik Lee), Journal of Development Economics 103 (2013), p. 244-253

  • FDI Externalities and the Response of the Korean Stock Market, (with Sungjin Kang and Hongshik Lee), Korean Economic Review, Summer (2013)

  • Agglomeration, Backward and Forward : Evidence from South Korean Investment in China, (with Peter Debaere and Myungho Paik), Canadian Journal of Economics 43 (2010), p. 520-546

  • It Matters Where You Go: Outward Foreign Direct Investment and Multinational Employment Growth at Home, (with Peter Debaere and Hongshik Lee), Journal of Development Economics 91 (2010), p. 301-309

  • Regional Production Network, Service Offshoring, and Productivity in East Asia, (with Moonsung Kang, Hyukwhang Kim, and Hongshik Lee), Japan and the World Economy 22 (2010), p. 206-216