Title: Financialization, Inequality and the End of East Asian Capitalism

Time: 16:00--18:00, Wednesday, 22 May 2019

Venue: 9406 Jingshi Building

Speaker: Keun LEE, professor of Economics, Seoul National University

Moderator: Li Shi, professor of BNUBS

About the speaker:

Keun LEE, president of the International Schumpeter Society, is a lifelong fellow of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. He received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989, and he is a professor of economics at Seoul National University in Korea, and the founding director of the Center for Economic Catch-up. He is also the Chief editor of Research Policy (TOP1 SSCI Journal in innovation economy and management), associate editor of Industrial and Corporate Change (SSCI Journal), Asian Journal of Technology Associate Editor of Innovation (SSCI Journal), Former Chairman of the Asia-pacific Innovation Network Committee, Board member of the United Nations Development Policy Committee, and Board member of the World Economic Forum. His book Schumpeter Analysis of Economic Catch-up won the 2014 Schumpeter Prize. He has been paying attention to the economic catch-up of latecomer countries. Professor Li Gen has been cited 6128 times in his academic papers, with an H index of 38 and the highest single paper cited 1061 times.

About the content：

This seminar will be based on two papers of mine recently published, such as 1) Impact of Financialization and Financial Development on Inequality: Panel Cointegration Results using OECD Data," Asian Economic Papers, forthcoming.2) Varieties of capitalism and East Asia: Long-term evolution, structural change, and the end of East Asian capitalism. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, forthcoming/published online.