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Biography
Gee Hee Hong is the Assistant to the Director in the Research Department. Her work focuses on inflation dynamics and the transmission of monetary policy, fiscal policy, and structural issues including firm dynamism, productivity, and demographic trends. She worked in various departments at the IMF, including the Asia and Pacific Department, Research Department, European Department and Fiscal Affairs Department. Her work has been published in top peer-reviewed journals, including the American Economic Review, the Review of Economics and Statistics, and the Review of Financial Studies. She worked several country teams including Japan, Turkey, East Timor, Iraq, and Italy. Prior to joining the IMF, she worked at Bank of Canada (2012-2014). Ms. Hong holds a B.A. from Seoul National University (2006) and an M.A. and a Ph.D from the University of California, Berkeley (2012).
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Education
- Ph.D. Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 2012
- M.A. Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, 2010
- B.A. (summa cum laude) Economics, Seoul National University, 2006
Previous Experience
- Bank of Canada, Senior Analyst, 2012-2014
- Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Visiting position, summer 2014
Field of Expertise
- Monetary Policy
- Macro-Financial Issues
IMF Publications
IMF Books and Working Papers
- HANK-Based Fiscal Consolidation for a High-Debt Advanced Euro Area Economy, Working Paper No. 2026/121 , June 12, 2026
- Long-Term Spending Pressures in Europe, Departmental Paper No 2025/002 , March 14, 2025
- Europe’s Productivity Weakness: Firm-Level Roots and Remedies, Working Paper No. 2025/040 , February 14, 2025
- The Economic Impact of Fiscal Policy Uncertainty: Evidence from a New Cross-Country Database, Working Paper No. 2024/209 , September 27, 2024
- Policy Responses to High Energy and Food Prices, Working Paper No. 2023/074 , March 24, 2023
- Evaluating the Costs of Government Credit Support Programs during COVID-19: International Evidence, Working Paper No. 2023/016 , January 27, 2023
- The State as Financier of Last Resort, Staff Discussion Notes No. 2022/003 , October 13, 2022
- The Return to Fiscal Rules, Staff Discussion Notes No. 2022/002 , October 11, 2022
- The Effects of Economic Shocks on Heterogeneous Inflation Expectations, Working Paper No. 2022/132 , July 1, 2022
- Fiscal Policy for Mitigating the Social Impact of High Energy and Food Prices, IMF Notes No 2022/001 , June 7, 2022
- Trust What You Hear: Policy Communication, Expectations, and Fiscal Credibility, Working Paper No. 2022/036 , February 18, 2022
- Zombies on the Brink: Evidence from Japan on the Reversal of Monetary Policy Effectiveness, Working Paper No. 2021/044 , February 19, 2021
- Demographics and the Housing Market: Japan’s Disappearing Cities, Working Paper No. 2020/200 , September 25, 2020
- Structural Changes in Japanese Firms: Business Dynamism in an Aging Society, Working Paper No. 2020/182 , September 4, 2020
- Achieving the Bank of Japan’s Inflation Target, Working Paper No. 2019/229 , November 1, 2019
- What Do Deviations from Covered Interest Parity and Higher FX Hedging Costs Mean for Asia, Working Paper No. 2019/169 , August 2, 2019
- Productivity Drag from Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Japan, Working Paper No. 2019/137 , July 1, 2019
- Pushed Past the Limit? How Japanese Banks Reacted to Negative Interest Rates, Working Paper No. 2018/131 , June 13, 2018
- More Slack than Meets the Eye? Recent Wage Dynamics in Advanced Economies, Working Paper No. 2018/050 , March 9, 2018
- Portfolio Inflows Eclipsing Banking Inflows: Alternative Facts?, Working Paper No. 2018/029 , February 16, 2018
- Extensive Margin Adjustment of Multi-Product Firm and Risk Diversification, Working Paper No. 2017/146 , June 30, 2017
- Financial Frictions and the Great Productivity Slowdown, Working Paper No. 2017/129 , May 31, 2017
- China's Changing Trade and the Implications for the CLMV, Departmental Paper No. 2016/010 , September 1, 2016
- China and Asia in Global Trade Slowdown, Working Paper No. 2016/105 , May 26, 2016
- Dynamic Connectedness of Asian Equity Markets, Working Paper No. 2016/057 , March 9, 2016
- Singapore’s Export Elasticities: A Disaggregated Look into the Role of Global Value Chains and Economic Complexity, Working Paper No. 2016/052 , March 7, 2016
- Should Korea Worry about a Permanently Weak Yen?, Working Paper No. 2015/158 , July 16, 2015
- The Cyclicality of Sales, Regular and Effective Prices: Business Cycle and Policy Implications, Working Paper No. 2012/207 , August 1, 2012
Other Published Materials
- Should Korea Worry About a Permanently Weak Yen? (with Jack J. Ree, Seoen, Choi), Working Paper, WP/15/158.
- Asia's Export Performance: What is Holding Back? (with Joong Shik Kang), Regional Economic Outlook: Asia and Pacific, April 2015
- The Impact of Yen Depreciation on Japanese and Korean Exports: Is This Time Different? (with Jack J. Ree), Regional Economic Outlook: Asia and Pacific, April 2015.
- Financial Spillovers in Asia: Evidence from Equity Markets (with Roberto Guimaraes-Filho), Regional Economic Outlook: Asia and Pacific, April 2015.
- Singapore's Export Elasticities: A Disaggregated Look into the Role of Global Value Chains and Economic Complexity (with Elif Arbatli), March 2016. IMF WP/16/52.
- Dynamic Connectedness of Asian Equity Markets (with Roberto Guimaraes-Filho), March 2016. IMF WP/16/57.
- China and Asia in Global Trade Slowdown (with Jaewoo Lee, Wei Liao and Dulani Seneviratne), March 2016. IMF WP/16/105.
- China's Changing Trade and the Implications for the CLMV Economies (with Koshy Mathai, Geoff Gottlieb, Sung Eun Jung, Jochen Schmittmann and Jiangyan Yu), Sep 2016, Asia and Pacific Departmental Paper No. 16/1, International Monetary Fund.
Non-IMF Publications
Publications in Journals (Refereed)
- Market Structure and Cost Pass-Through in Retail (with Nicholas Li). Forthcoming 2016, Review of Economics and Statistics.
- The Cyclicality of Sales, Regular, and Effective Prices: Business Cycle and Policy Implications (with Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko), 2015, American Economic Review, 105(3), pp.993-1029.
- Rethinking the Exchange Rate Impact on Trade in a World with Global Value Chains (with Kevin Cheng, Dulani Seneviratne and Rachel van Elkan), 2016. International Economic Journal.
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