Curriculum Vitae
July 2014
Sanghoon Lee
Contact Information
Mailing Address
Office: (604) 822-8480
2053 Main Mall
Fax: (604) 822-8477
Vancouver, BC
E-mail: sanghoon.lee@sauder.ubc.ca
Canada, V6T 1Z2
Major Fields of Concentration
Urban Economics, Real Estate Economics, Public Economics, Labor Economics, Industrial Organization
Teaching
Urban Land Economics (COMM 306, UBC), Real Estate Economics (COMM 407, UBC), Government and
Business (COMM 394, UBC)
Education
Degree
Field
Institution
Year
PhD
Economics
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
2005
Primary advisor: Professor Thomas J. Holmes
BA
International Economics
Seoul National University
2000
Employment
July 2014 – Present
Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia
Associate Professor
July 2005 – June 2014
Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia
Assistant Professor
June 2003 – May 2005
Research department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Research Analyst.
September 2001 – May 2003
Research Assistant to Dr. James A. Schmitz, Jr.
Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Instructor. The courses taught include Principle of Microeconomics,
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Principle of Macroeconomics, Public Economics, and Environmental
Economics.
Publications
"Uneven Landscape and City Size Distribution" with Qiang Li, Journal of Urban Economics, Volume 78,
November 2013, Pages 19-29.
“Repairs Under Imperfect Information” with John Ries and Tsur Somerville, Journal of Urban Economics,
Elsevier, vol. 73(1), January 2013, pages 43-56.
“Economies of Density vs. Natural Advantages: Crop Choice on the Back Forty” with Tom Holmes, The Review
of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 94(1), pages 1-19, 07, 2012.
“Ability Sorting and Consumer City,” Journal of Urban Economics, vol. 68(1), pages 20-33, July 2010.
“The Timing of Signaling: To Study in High School or in College?” International Economic Review, Vol. 48, No.
3, pp. 785 - 807, August 2007.
“Cities as Six-By-Six Mile Squares: Zipf's Law?” with Tom Holmes, NBER Chapters, in Agglomeration
Economics, pages 105-131, 2010, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
Working Paper
“Natural Amenities, Neighborhood Dynamics, and Persistence in Spatial Income Distribution within Cities” with
Jeffrey Lin. Revise and Resubmit invited from the Review of Economic Studies.
“Allocative Efficiency, Mark-ups, and the Welfare Gains from Trade” with Tom Holmes and Wentai Hsu. Revise
and Resubmit invited from the Journal of International Economics.
“The Price-to-income Ratio and the Quality of Life, joint with Seungdong You
Work in Progress
"Wages, Rents, and City Size Distribution" joint with Qiang Li
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