Jaedo Choi

In Fall 2025, I will join UT Austin as an Assistant Professor.

I am an economist at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. This is a personal website. Any results or conclusions in the research presented on this website are my own and do not necessarily represent the view of the Federal Reserve System.

Contact

Address: Constitution Ave NW & 20th St NW, Washington, DC 20551

E-mail: jaedo.research@gmail.com

Curriculum Vitae CV

Working Papers

New! The Dynamics of Technology Transfer: Multinational Investment in China and Rising Global Competition (with George Cui, Younghun Shim, Yongseok Shin)

Latest Draft (June 2025) (Previous circulated as "Did US Multinationals Transfer Too Much Technology to China")

Superstars or Supervillains? Large Firms in the South Korean Growth Miracle (with Andrei A. Levchenko, Dimitrije Ruzic, Younghun Shim)

Latest Draft (February 2025)

NBER Working Paper 32648 | CEPR Discussion Paper 19207

Coverage: Marginal Revolution, INSEAD Knowledge

Press: Maeil Business Newspaper (in Korean)

Industrialization and the Big Push: Theory and Evidence from South Korea (with Younghun Shim)

Revise and resubmit, Review of Economics and Statistics

Latest Draft (February 2025) (Previous circulated as "Technology Adoption and Late Industrialization")

IMF Working Paper 24/259, STEG Working Paper 033

From Adoption to Innovation: State-Dependent Technology Policy in Developing Countries (with Younghun Shim)

Reject and resubmit, American Economic Review