Heejoon Kang

• Professor Emeritus of Business Economics & Public Policy

Campus

• Bloomington

Education

• BS, Seoul National University, 1966
• MS, University of South Carolina, 1973
• MA, University of Washington, 1975
• PhD, University of South Carolina, 1974
• PhD, University of Washington, 1980

Professional Experience

• Professor, Indiana University Kelley School of Business, since August 1997 - 2008
• Adjunct Professor, Indiana University Department of Economics, since September 2003
• Visiting Professor, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea, August-October 2004
• Acting Chair, Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, August-December 2003
• Visiting Professor, ZEI, University of Bonn, Germany, June 2002
• Acting Chair, Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, January-May, 2001
• Associate Professor, Indiana University, 1984-1997
• Assistant Professor, Indiana University, 1980-84

Awards, Honors & Certifications

• Invited Lecturer, School of Economics, Seoul National University, sponsored by Seoul Journal of Economics (2002)
• Summer Research Grants from Indiana University School of Business (1988-2001)
• Innovative Teaching Award, doctoral program, Indiana University Kelley School of Business (1998-99)
• Distinguished Teaching Award, Kelley School of Business Doctoral Student Association (1997-8)
• Ameritech Fellowship: Raising the Effectiveness of Export and Investment Promostion in the Great Lakes Region, with Joseph C. Miller (1990-91)
• Ameritech Fellowship: The Feasability of a Midwestern Trade Promotion Agency (1990-89)
• Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award, School of Business Doctoral Student Association (1988-89)
• Ameritech Fellowship: Foreign Trade and Investment Policies of the Great Lakes States Toward South Korea: Practice, Performance, and Perception (1988-89)
• Summer Faculty Fellowship from Indiana University Research and Graduate Development (1987)

Professional Interests

Time Series Analysis, Applied Econometrics, Foreign Trade, Financial Economics

Selected Publications

• Heejoon Kang and Michele Fratianni, “Heterogeneous Distance-Elasticities in Trade Gravity Models,” Economics Letters, 90, 2006, pp. 68-71.