His research centers on industrial organization and market regulation. He has published studies on causes and consequences of regulatory reform in utility industries, on environmental regulation, and on equal-opportunity laws in labor markets. He has served as a research fellow with the Erasmus Mundus Public Policy Program, the International Centre for Economic Research and the Japan Foundation. Prior to joining Ewha in 2007, he worked as a research economist at ERS Group, a consultancy, in the labor and employment discrimination branch. He holds a doctorate in Economics