Jaebin Ahn
Last Updated: November 22, 2024

JaeBin Ahn is a Senior Economist in the Western Hemisphere Department of the IMF, where he currently covers the U.S. and Grenada desks. Prior to this position, he was in the Research department (Multilateral Surveillance Division; Open-Economy Macroeconomics Division; Systemic Issues Division) as well as in Asia and Pacific department covering Indonesia and Malaysia. From 2018 to 2022, he served as an Associate/Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University. Before joining the IMF’s Economist Program in 2011, he was a dissertation intern at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. His area of research includes international trade and finance, with particular interests in deriving macroeconomic implications from micro-level theory and evidence. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University and his M.A. in Economics and B.S. in Material Science from Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea.
Email: JAHN@imf.org
Personal WebPage: https://sites.google.com/site/jaebinahn/
Fluent In: Korean.
Education:
Ph.D. in Economics, Columbia University, 2005-2011.
M.A. in Economics, Yonsei University, 2003-2005.
B.S. in Material Science, Yonsei University, 1996-2003.
IMF Books and Working Papers:
Macroeconomic Policy, Product Market Competition, and Growth: The Intangible Investment Channel , Working Paper No. 20/25 , February 07, 2020
Work In Progress : Improving Youth Labor Market Outcomes in Emerging Market and Developing Economies , Staff Discussion Note 19/02 , January 22, 2019
Innovation and Corporate Cash Holdings in the Era of Globalization , Working Paper No. 19/17 , January 18, 2019
Pass-Through of Imported Input Prices to Domestic Producer Prices : Evidence from Sector-Level Data , Working Paper No. 16/23 , February 12, 2016
A Theory of Domestic and International Trade Finance , Working Paper No. 11/262 , November 01, 2011

JaeBin Ahn is a Senior Economist in the Western Hemisphere Department of the IMF, where he currently covers the U.S. and Grenada desks. Prior to this position, he was in the Research department (Multilateral Surveillance Division; Open-Economy Macroeconomics Division; Systemic Issues Division) as well as in Asia and Pacific department covering Indonesia and Malaysia. From 2018 to 2022, he served as an Associate/Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University. Before joining the IMF’s Economist Program in 2011, he was a dissertation intern at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. His area of research includes international trade and finance, with particular interests in deriving macroeconomic implications from micro-level theory and evidence. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University and his M.A. in Economics and B.S. in Material Science from Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea.
Email: JAHN@imf.org
Personal WebPage: https://sites.google.com/site/jaebinahn/
Fluent In: Korean.
Education:
Ph.D. in Economics, Columbia University, 2005-2011.
M.A. in Economics, Yonsei University, 2003-2005.
B.S. in Material Science, Yonsei University, 1996-2003.
IMF Books and Working Papers:
Macroeconomic Policy, Product Market Competition, and Growth: The Intangible Investment Channel , Working Paper No. 20/25 , February 07, 2020
Work In Progress : Improving Youth Labor Market Outcomes in Emerging Market and Developing Economies , Staff Discussion Note 19/02 , January 22, 2019
Innovation and Corporate Cash Holdings in the Era of Globalization , Working Paper No. 19/17 , January 18, 2019
Pass-Through of Imported Input Prices to Domestic Producer Prices : Evidence from Sector-Level Data , Working Paper No. 16/23 , February 12, 2016
A Theory of Domestic and International Trade Finance , Working Paper No. 11/262 , November 01, 2011