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Current Faculty

Current Faculty

Nakil Sung

Research Area

Applied Microeconomics, Industrial Organization, Information and Communication Media Economics

email
Email Address

nisung@uos.ac.kr

phone
Phone Number

(+82) 2-6490-2060

location
Office

Mirae Hall, 907

Education

  • Ph.D., Economics, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1995.
  • M.A., Economics, Seoul National University, 1985.
  • B.A., Economics, Seoul National University, 1981.

Employment

  • 2001.03~currentUniversity of Seoul, Assistant/Associate/Full Professor
  • 2011.03~2012.02Korea Academic Society of Industrial Organization, President
  • 2010.01~2012.12Korea Association For Telecommunications Policies, Auditor
  • 2006.03~2013.02BK21(2nd phase), Applied Microeconomics Human Resource Development Team, Leader
  • 1985.06~2001.02KT, Associate Researcher/Senior Researcher/Team Manager

Selected Publications

  • COVID-19 and Changes in Content Usage Behavior: The Case of South Korea (with Minchang Kim), Telecommunications Policy, 47(1), 2023, pp.1-14.
  • Entry and Exit of Small Self-employed Businesses in Korea’s Service Industries (with Jaekyung Kim), Small Business Economics, 54(1), 2020, pp.303-322.
  • Declining First-mover Advantage in Mobile Telecommunications Markets, The Service Industries Journal, 34(2), 2014, pp.89-102.
  • Mergers, Capital Gains, and Productivity: Evidence from U.S. Telecommunications Mergers (with Michael Gort), Contemporary Economic Policy, 24(3), 2006, pp.382-394.
  • Economies of Scale and Natural Monopoly in the U.S. Local Telephone Industry (with Michael Gort), Review of Economics and Statistics, 82(4), 2000, pp.694-697.

Books and Translations

  • Global Economy and Digital Society (with Erik Bohlin, Stanford Levin, and Chang-Ho Yoon), Amsterdam: Elsevier Ltd., 2004.