Faculty Information - KIM Sangho

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KIM Sangho
Department Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University College of Asia Pacific Studies

Position Professor

■ Academic and professional experience

1.	2012/04	Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University College of International Management Professor
2.	1999/03～2012/02	Honam University Rep. of Korea Associate Professor-Professor
3.	1998/01～1999/01	Michigan State University Visiting Scholar
4.	1991/03～1998/02	Honam University Rep. of Korea Full-time Lectureer-Assistant Professor

■ Message

Message to undergraduate students: I hope that APU students will learn from and enjoy our unique international environment. Please use this opportunity to enhance your personality and knowledge and put it to good use for a bright future for the Asia Pacific Region and the entire world. Message to graduate school students: I would like to apply my research capacity to guide graduate students towards transferring their research ideas into testable theses and empirical analysis in order to help them successfully achieve their degrees at APU.

■ Current specialized field

Economic policy, Economic statistics

■ Books and theses

1.	2025/02/20	Article	Impact of Near Economic Center on the Economic Growth of Neighboring Country Journal of Asian Business and Economic Studies 32(1),pp.66-77 (Single)
2.	2022/12/06	Article	The Nonlinear Relationship Between Entrepreneurship and Natural Resource Rents The Journal of Entrepreneurship 31(3),pp.632--662 (Collaboration)
3.	2021/09	Article	Dynamic factor adjustment and corporate tax reduction in the Japanese manufacturing industry Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy 26(4),pp.653-667 (Collaboration)
4.	2021/03	Article	Dynamic factor demand in the Japanese manufacturing industry Journal of Asian Business and Economic Studies 28(1),pp.20-30 (Single)
5.	2021/01	Article	Entrepreneurship and Natural Resource Rents: Evidence from Excessive Entrepreneurship Activity Sustainable Production and Consumption 25(1),pp.15-26 (Collaboration)
6.	2020/05	Article	Entrepreneurship and natural resource rent-seeking: The roles of institutional quality Economics Bulletin 40(2),pp.1159-1177 (Collaboration)
7.	2020/03	Article	Dynamic production structure of the Korean economy: An estimation of factor adjustment International Area Studies Review (ISAR) pp.105-124 (Collaboration)
8.	2020/03	Article	Productivity Growth in Dynamic Factor Adjustment for the Japanese Manufacturing Industry Global Economic Review 49(2),pp.171-185 (Single)
9.	2018/06	Article	Firm Heterogeneity in Sources of Total Factor Productivity Growth for Japanese Manufacturing Firms Applied Economics 50(58),pp.6301-6315 (Single)
10.	2017/08	Article	Determinant factors of livelihood diversification: Evidence from Ethiopia Cogent Social Sciences 3(1),pp.1-16 (Collaboration)
11.	2017/06	Article	Productivity Growth Across the World in the Pre-Global Financial Crisis Period Journal of APEC Studies 9(1),pp.43-56 (Collaboration)
12.	2017/01	Article	Nexus between Education and Poverty in Africa: Evidence from Sierra Leone Sociology and Anthropology 5(1),pp.27-45 (Collaboration)
13.	2016/05	Article	Factor Determinants of Total Factor Productivity Growth for the Japanese Manufacturing Industry Contemporary Economic Policy 34(3),pp.572-586 (Single)
14.	2015/08	Article	Returns to Scale, Markup and Total Factor Productivity for the Japanese Manufacturing Industry Korea and the World Economy 16(2),pp.195-222 (Collaboration)
15.	2014/07	Article	Technical Efficiency of Cocoa Farmers in Ghana Journal of Rural Development 37(2),pp.159-182 (Collaboration)
16.	2014/04	Article	Estimating Productivity Growth in the Korean Economy without Restrictive Assumptions Contemporary Economic Policy 32(2),pp.520-532 (Single)
17.	2013/06	Article	Productivity and Timing of Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence Based on Korean Direct Investment in China Journal of Market Economy 42(2),pp.1-17 (Single)
18.	2013/04	Article	Does productivity growth lower inflation in Korea? Applied Economics 45(16),pp.2183-2190 (Collaboration)
19.	2012/03	Article	Productivity Growth in Different Firm-Size Groups in the Malaysian Manufacturing Sector Asian Ecoonmic Journal 26(1),pp.25-42 (Collaboration)
20.	2012/02	Article	Economic Reform and Total Factor Productivity Growth in Indian Manufacturing Industries Review of Development Economics 16(1),pp.152-166 (Collaboration)
21.	2011/08	Article	Stochastic Frontier Technical Efficiency and Firm Size in Korean Manufacturing Industries Journal of Finance and Knowledge Studies 9(2),pp.87-103 (Single)
22.	2011/02	Article	Factor Determinants of Total Factor Productivity Growth in Malaysian Hotel Industry: A Stochastic Frontier Approach Cornell Hospitality Quarterly 52(1),pp.35-47 (Collaboration)
23.	2010/06	Article	Current Issues of Productivity Growth in Korea Journal of Market Economy 39(2),pp.103-142 (Single)
24.	2010/04	Article	Productivity and Employment in a Developing Country: Some Evidence from Korea World Development 38(4),pp.514-522 (Collaboration)
25.	2009/06	Article	Imports, Exports, and Total Factor Productivity in Korea Applied Economics 41(14),pp.1819-1834 (Collaboration)
26.	2009/05	Article	Factor Determinants of Total Factor Productivity Growth in Malaysian Manufacturing Industries: A Decomposition Analysis Asian-Pacific Economic Literature 23(1),pp.48-65 (Collaboration)
27.	2009/03	Article	Cinema Demand in Korea Journal of Media Economics 22(1),pp.36-56 (Collaboration)
28.	2006/08	Article	The East Asia Productivity Debate Revisited: A Stochastic Frontier Approach Applied Economics 38(14),pp.1697-1706 (Collaboration)
29.	2003/08	Article	Is Output Growth of Korean Manufacturing Firms Productivity-Driven? Journal of Asian Economics 14(4),pp.669-678 (Collaboration)
30.	2003/06	Article	Locational Determinants of Korean Manufacturing Investments in the European Union Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics 44(1),pp.91-103 (Collaboration)
31.	2003/01	Article	Identifying and Estimating Sources of Technical Inefficiency in Korean Manufacturing Industries Contemporary Economic Policy 21(1),pp.132-144 (Collaboration)
32.	2002/12	Article	Public Sector Capital and the Production Efficiency of U.S. Regional Manufacturing Industries Japanese Economic Review 53(4),pp.466-477 (Collaboration)
33.	2001/11	Article	A Decomposition of Total Factor Productivity Growth in Korean Manufacturing Industries: A Stochastic Frontier Approach Journal of Productivity Analysis 16(3),pp.269-281 (Collaboration)
34.	1999/07	Article	Finance, Production Efficiency, and Growth: Evidence from the Korean Manufacturing Industries Seould Journal of Economics 12(2),pp.127-141 (Collaboration)
35.	1999/07	Article	Infrastructure and Production Efficiency: An Analysis on the Korean Manufacturing Industry Contemporary Economic Policy 17(3),pp.390-400 (Collaboration)
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■ Academic or professional association memberships

1.	2012/07	East Asian Economic Association
2.	2012/06	Econometric Society
3.	2012/06	Western Ecoonmic Association
4.	2002/03	Korean Economic and Business Association
5.	1995/03	Econometric Society
6.	1995/03～2007/03	American Ecnomic Association
7.	1991/03	Korean Economic Association
8.	1991/03	Korean International Economic Association
9.	1991/03～2005/03	Western Ecoonmic Association
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■ Conference presentations

1.	2024/08/01	Impact of Near Economic Center on the Economic Growth of Neighboring Countries in Asia (APMASS)
2.	2024/07/05	Transmission of Growth between Neighboring Countries in Europe (29th International Panel Data Conference)
3.	2023/04/11	Impact of Near Economic Center on the Economic Growth of Neighboring Country in Asia (The 17th Western Economic Association International Conference)
4.	2022/12/04	Impact of Trade Volatility on Output for the Japanese Manufacturing Industry (The 20th Asia Pacific Conference)
5.	2022/10/30	Impact of Near Economic Center on the Economic Growth of Neighboring Country (Japan Association of Applied Economics (JAAE) Fall Conference)
6.	2020/11/22	Decomposition of Productivity Growth and its Determinant Factors for Japanese Manufacturing Firms (JAAE 2020 Fall Conference)
7.	2020/11/14	Temporal Changes in Factor Adjustment of the Japanese Manufacturing Industry (2020 18th Asia Pacific Conference)
8.	2019/05/02	Productivity growth in dynamic factor adjustment for the Japanese manufacturing industry (Workshop at CNU)
9.	2019/03/25	Productivity Growth in Dynamic Factor Adjustment for the Japanese Manufacturing Industry (International Workshop on " One Belt & One Road" at Faculty of Management, Aoyama-Gakuin University(Aoyama-campus))
10.	2018/12/01	Dynamic Factor Adjustment and Corporate Tax Reduction for the Japanese Manufacturing Industry (The 16th Asia Pacific Conference)
11.	2018/11/16	Dynamic Factor Demand in the Japanese Manufacturing Industry (KEBA 2018 Fall International Conference)
12.	2018/10/27	Dynamic Factor Adjustment and Corporate Tax Reduction for the Japanese Manufacturing Industry (2018 Fall Conference of Japan Association for Applied Economics (JAAE))
13.	2018/09/12	Dynamic Factor Adjustment and Corporate Tax Reduction for the Japanese Manufacturing Industry (Workshop at CNU)
14.	2018/09/08	Dynamic Factor Adjustment and Corporate Tax Reduction for the Japanese Manufacturing Industry (The Asia Conference on Business and Economic Studies (ACBES) Conference)
15.	2018/08/09	Dynamic Factor Adjustment and Corporate Tax Reduction for the Japanese Manufacturing Industry (Workshop at Wonkwang University)
16.	2018/07/28	Dynamic Factor Adjustment and Corporate Tax Reduction for the Japanese Manufacturing Industry (The Economic Cooperation Forum of CEO in Northeast Asia 2018)
17.	2018/06/28	Dynamic Factor Adjustment in the Japanese Manufacturing Industry (The International Symposium on Education and Social Science (ISESS) Conference)
18.	2018/05/24	Firm Heterogeneity in Sources of Total Factor Productivity Growth for Japanese Manufacturing Firms (Workshop at Chonnam National University)
19.	2018/04/20	Dynamic Factor Adjustment in the Japanese Manufacturing Industry (The Korean Association of Applied Economics (KAAE) Annual Meeting)
20.	2017/11/11	Firm Heterogeneity in Sources of Total Factor Productivity Growth: Evidence from Japanese Manufacturing Firms (15th Asia Pacific Conference)
21.	2017/09/19	Firm Heterogeneity in Sources of Total Factor Productivity Growth: Evidence from Japanese Manufacturing Firms (44th International Business Research Conference)
22.	2017/08/28	Firm Heterogeneity in Sources of Total Factor Productivity Growth: Evidence from Japanese Manufacturing Firms (International Symposium on Business and Social Sciences)
23.	2017/07/15	Firm Heterogeneity in Sources of Total Factor Productivity Growth: Evidence from Japanese Manufacturing Firms (KEA-APEA 2017 International Conference)
24.	2017/06/29	Firm Heterogeneity in Sources of Total Factor Productivity Growth: Evidence from Japanese Manufacturing Firms (Korea and the World Economy XVI)
25.	2017/02/10	Factor Determinants of Decomposed Total Factor Productivity (2017 Korea's Allied Economic Associations (KAEA) Annual Meeting)
26.	2016/11/11	Factor Determinants of Decomposed Total Factor Productivity Growth: Evidence from Japanese Manufacturing Firms (KEBA 2016 International Conference)
27.	2016/11/05	Factor Determinants of Decomposed Total Factor Productivity Growth: Evidence from Japanese Manufacturing (Asia Pacific 14th Conference)
28.	2016/10/28	Factor Determinants of Decomposed Total Factor Productivity Growth: Evidence from Japanese Manufacturing (International Conference)
29.	2016/06/19	Factor Determinants of Decomposed Total Factor Productivity Growth: Evidence from Japanese Manufacturing Firms (JEA's Annual Spring Conference)
30.	2016/04/15	Factor Determinants of Decomposed Total Factor Productivity Growth: Evidence from Japanese Manufacturing Firms (2016 Annual Meeting of The Korean Association of Applied Economics)
31.	2016/03/30	Factor Determinants of Decomposed Total Factor Productivity Growth: Evidence from Japanese Manufacturing Firms (2016 The 4th International Conference on Business and Social Sciences (ICBASS))
32.	2016/02/17	Factor Determinants of Decomposed Total Factor Productivity Growth: Evidence from Japanese Manufacturing Firms (The Korean Economic Association's Allied Economic Conference, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea)
33.	2016/02/02	Recent Productivity Growth across the World (International Symposium on Social Sciences and Management (ISSSM))
34.	2015/11/27	Determinant Factors of Livelihood Diversification: Evidence from North East Ethopia (Korean Economic and Business Association)
35.	2015/09/08	Demand Shocks, Technology Shocks and the Solow Residual for Korea (ICEME 2015 Conference)
36.	2015/06/13	What Drives Total Factor Productivity Growth for Japanese Manufacturing Industry? (The Japanese Applied Economic Association's Spring Conference)
37.	2015/05/23	What Drives Total Factor Productivity Growth for Japanese Manufacturing Industry? (The Japanese Economic Association's Spring Conference)
38.	2015/04/03	What Drives Total Factor Productivity Growth for Japanese Manufacturing Industry? (2015 Annual Meeting of The Korean Association of Applied Economics)
39.	2015/03/13	What Drives Total Factor Productivity Growth for Japanese Manufacturing Industry? (The 79th International Atlantic Economic Society Conference, Milan, Italy)
40.	2015/02/24	What Drives Total Factor Productivity Growth for Japanese Manufacturing Industry? (The Korean Economic Association's Allied Economic Conference, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea)
41.	2014/12/08	Current Practices of Human Resource Management by Korean SMEs (Establishing Best Practices on Human Capital Development to Enhance Competitiveness, a workshop co-held by the Asia-Pacific Economic Coorperation (APEC) and the Malaysia Productivity Corporation (MPC).)
42.	2014/11/27	Education and Poverty Nexus (The IAAPS Conference, Inchon, Korea)
43.	2014/11/01	What Drives Total Factor Productivity Growth for Japanese Manufacturing Industry? (Asia Pacific Conference, APU, November 1, 2014)
44.	2014/08/12	Returns to Scale, Total Factor Productivity Growth for Japanese Manufacturing Industry (The Korean Economic Association's International Conference, Yonsei University)
45.	2014/08/08	Demand Shocks, Technology Shocks and the Solow Residual for Korea (The JCTEF Conference)
46.	2014/06/21	Returns to Scale, Total Factor Productivity Growth for Japanese Manufacturing Industry (Japan Applied Economic Association's Spring Conference, Dokushima University, Dokushima, Japan)
47.	2014/06/13	Returns to Scale, Total Factor Productivity Growth for Japanese Manufacturing Industry (Korean Economic and Business Association's Spring Conference, Daegu Hanye University, Daegu, Korea)
48.	2014/05/29	Returns to Scale, Total Factor Productivity Growth for Japanese Manufacturing Industry (Seminar held at Chonnam National University, Korea May 29, 2014)
49.	2014/04/04	Nexus of Education and Poverty in Africa: Evidence from Sierra Leone (The Seventy-Seventh International Atlantic Economic Conference)
50.	2014/02/11	Technical Efficiency of Cocoa Farmers in Ghana (2014 Allied Korean Economics Conference)
51.	2013/11/21	Returns to Scale, Markup and Total Factor Productivity for the Japanese Manufacturing (IBSSS The Global Symposium on Sicial Sciences, Okinawa, Japan)
52.	2013/11/02	Returns to Scale, Markup and Total Factor Productivity for the Japanese Manufacturing Industry (2013 AP Conference)
53.	2013/08/20	Productivity and Timing of Foreign Direct Investment (The 6th International Colloqium on Business and Management)
54.	2013/07/04	Technical Efficiency of Cocoas Farm Households in Ghana (2013 KAEA-JAEA-REST Joint Symposium)
55.	2013/05/31	Nexus of Education and Poverty in Africa: Evidence from Sierra Leone (Korea Economic and Business Association 2013 Spring Conference)
56.	2013/05/31	Technical Efficiency of Cocoa Farm Households in Ghana (Korea Ecoonmic and Business Association 2013 Spring Conference)
57.	2013/04/06	Returns to Scale, Markup and Productivity in Japan (The 75th International Atlantic Economic Conference)
58.	2013/03/15	Ownership Structure and Export Performance: Firm-level Evidence from Korea (The 10th Biennial Pacific Rim Conference)
59.	2013/03/15	Productivity Growth across the World, 1991-2003 (The 10th Biennial Pacific Rim Conference)
60.	2013/02/21	Estimating Total Factor Productivity without Restrictive Assumptions: An Investigation of Japanese Productivity Growth (The 2013 Allied Conference of Korean Economics Associations)
61.	2012/12/08	Recent Productivity Growth across the World (Asia Pacific Conference 2012)
62.	2012/11/18	Ownership Structure and Export Performance (The third ABMC Conference)
63.	2012/11/10	Productivity and Timing of Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence Based on Korean Direct Investment in China (IAAS's 2012 Fall Conference)
64.	2011/07	FDI Timing and Productivity (International Economic Association Sixteenth World Congress)
65.	2011/06	Estimating TFP without Restrictive Assumptions for the Korean Ecoonmy (2011 Chinese Economist Society (CES) Annual Conference in Beijing)
66.	2010/09	FDI Timing and Productivity (European Trade Study Group Eleventh Annual Conference)
67.	2010/08	Ownership Structure and Firm's Productivity (The 14th International Conference, The Korean Economic Association)
68.	2010/07	Recent Trend in World Productivity Grwoth (24th European Conference on Operational Research)
69.	2010/06	FDI Timing and Productivity (Japanese Association for Applied Economics’s 2010 JAAE Spring Meeting)
70.	2009/12	Ownership Structure and Productivity (The All China Economics International Conference)
71.	2008/08	Determinants of Productivity Sources for Malaysian Firms (The 13th International Conference," The Korean Economic Association)
72.	2008/07	Determinants of Productivity for Malaysian Firms (2008 Asia-Pacific Productivity Conference)
73.	2007/11	Productivity/Performance Benchmarks for Performance Based Remuneration Systems for Korean Firms (Workshop on Developing Key Performance Indicators and Productivity/Performance Benchmarks for Performance Based Remuneration Systems,")
74.	2007/08	Current Issues of Productivity Growth in Korea (2007 KDI-KAEA Conference," Korea Development Institute (KDI) and Korea-America Economic Association (KAEA), KDI)
75.	2007/07	Cinema Demand in Korea (Korea and the World Economy VI: Towards Asian Economic Community)
76.	2007/06	Benchmarks for Performance Based Remuneration Systems for Korean Firms (Benchmarks for Performance Based Remuneration Systems," Asia-Pacific Economic Corporation (APEC) and National Productivity Corporation (NPC),)
77.	2006/09	Imports, Exports and TFP in Korea (European Trade Study Group Eighth Annual Conference)
78.	2006/08	Business Cycles and TFP in Korea (The Korean Economic Association's 12th International Conference)
79.	2006/08	Productivity and DemandShocks in Korea (The 12th International Conference)
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■ Research topic, funded research and KAKENHI

1.	2014～2014	Consulting service on research project’, “Establishing Best Practices on Human Capital Development to Enhance Productivity, Quality, Competitiveness and Innovation among SMEs” (Key Word : )
2.	2009～2009	Consulting service on research project’, “Ownership Structure and Firm's Productivity (Key Word : )
3.	2008～2008	Consulting service on research project’, “Total factor Productivity: Malaysian Manufacturing Industries,” (Key Word : )
4.	2008～2008	Consulting service on “Research on the Impact of Performance-based Remuneration Systems on Productivity Performance of Local Industries-Korea's Experience," APEC Human Resources Development Working Group in Collaboration with the Malaysia Productivity Corporation (MPC), Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) (Key Word : )
5.	2007～2008	Technical Expert Service on “Analysis of TFP Sources of Growth to Enhance Competitiveness’, a research project commissioned by the Asian Productivity Organization for the National Productivity Corporation (NPC), Malaysia (Technical expert, Joint work with MPC research team, One year from Mar. 2007) (Key Word : )
6.	2005～2006	Expert Service on “Korea Impact Evaluation Report Delayed Development of the Cholla Region: An Institutional Study,” (Key Word : )
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■ Awards and honors

2013/09

■ Educational ability

● Matter that should be mentioned specially in others educational activity
1.	2014/08～2019/01	Teaching undergraduate research seminar

■ Committee and society

Peer Review Academic Journal Editors Editorial Board