Munseob Lee

Assistant Professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California San Diego

Munseob Lee is an Assistant Professor at the School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California San Diego. He received a BA from Seoul National University (2010) and a PhD from the University of Chicago (2017). He is broadly interested in macroeconomics and development. Lee has been a visiting fellow at the Asian Development Bank and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

Recent work by Munseob Lee

The plant-level view of an industrial policy: The Korean heavy industry drive of 1973

Korea’s promotion of heavy and chemical industries would have been more successful if it had not come with a rise in concentration and misallocation

Articles : Firms & Trade

Minho Kim Munseob Lee Yongseok Shin

Published 25.10.21
Measuring the cost of living in Mexico and the US

Data on prices and quantities of consumer packaged goods suggest that Mexican real consumption relative to the US is larger than previously estimated

Articles : Methods & Measurement

David Argente Chang-Tai Hsieh Munseob Lee

Published 02.10.20

Munseob Lee

Recent work by Munseob Lee

The plant-level view of an industrial policy: The Korean heavy industry drive of 1973

Measuring the cost of living in Mexico and the US