Taejun Lim
Associate Professor
Department of Economics, Dongguk University, Seoul 04620, Korea
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# Research Interests
Macroeconomics
Health Insurance
Financial Economics
Entrepreneurship
Computational Skills
# Research
// Published Papers (English)
// Published Papers (Korean)
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"Economic Effects of Government Subsidy Expansion in the National Health Insurance"
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"Macroeconomic Impacts of the Reform of National Basic Livelihood Security System"
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"Quantifying Macroeconomic Impact of Housing Demand Shock in Korea"
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"Effects of Retirement on Cognitive Functions"
// Working Papers
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"Macroeconomic and Welfare Effects of Sick Leave Benefits"
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"Inequality in Space and Time: A Dynamic Spatial Incomplete Markets Model with Endogenous Sorting"
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"Partisan Turnout and Presidential Election Outcomes in the United States: A Multilevel Regression and Poststratification Approach"
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"Financing Social Health Insurance: General Equilibrium Welfare and Intergenerational Trade-offs"
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"Resolving the Housing Supply Paradox: Policy Complementarity in Spatially Polarized Economies"
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"The Equity-Efficiency Trade-off in Spatial Taxation: Evidence from a Heterogeneous Agent Spatial Model"
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"Who Should Move? Targeted Migration Subsidies vs Place-Based Transfers in a Spatial Economy"
# Policy Briefings
연구 논문 기반 정책 브리핑 영상 — Powered by NotebookLM
기업가정신의 미래: 인구구조 변화와 경제적 역동성
고령화가 창업과 경제 역동성에 미치는 일반균형 효과를 분석합니다. 인구구조 변화가 기업가정신, 고용, 생산성에 미치는 정책적 함의를 논의합니다.
Based on: “Demographic Change and Entrepreneurship” — Economic Modelling, vol. 160, 2026
상병수당의 거시경제 및 후생 효과
상병수당 제도가 거시경제 변수와 사회후생에 미치는 효과를 분석합니다. 근로자의 건강 충격에 대한 사회안전망으로서 상병수당의 정책적 함의를 논의합니다.
Based on: “Macroeconomic and Welfare Effects of Sick Leave Benefits” — Global Economic Review (R&R)
# Teaching
Undergraduate
Macroeconomics
Dongguk University
Undergraduate
파이썬을 이용한 계산 거시경제학
RBC 모형실습 — Computational Macroeconomics with Python
Graduate
Macroeconomics
Dongguk University
# Curriculum Vitae
Employment
Associate Professor, Dongguk University, Korea
2024 – present
Assistant Professor, Dongguk University, Korea
2018 – 2024
Research Fellow, Korea Insurance Research Institute, Korea
2015 – 2018
Education
Ph.D. in Economics, University of Rochester, USA
Dissertation: Essays on Housing Collateral and Macroeconomics (Advisor: Professor Yan Bai)
2015
B.A. in Business Administration, Yonsei University, Korea
2007
Professional Service
Referee for: Journal of Economic Theory, Review of Economic Dynamics, Economic Modelling, Korean Economic Review.