An Economic Analysis of Korea-EU FTA and Japan-EU EPA

Chae-Deug Yi is a professor at the College of Economics and International Trade at Pusan National University (PNU), Republic of Korea. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Ohio State University, USA. He has worked as the founding director of the PNU EU Centre since 2009 and has been a Jean Monnet Chair holder in EU integration since 2010. He initiated and founded the ASIA - EU graduate student conference with Prof. Toshiro Tanaka (Keio University, Japan) in 2010. He has been teaching international trade and finance, econometrics, and EU economics at the Graduate School of International Studies, Law School, and College of Economics and International Trade, PNU, in Korea. He is now the president of the Korea Research Association of International Commerce. He held visiting professional positions in the USA at Duke University 2005-2006 and at UC Berkeley 2015-2016; and in China at Yeonbin University of Science of Technology in 2002. He also attended the International Negotiation Project, Harvard University, USA, 1997, and the Econometrics Summer Camp, Cambridge University, UK, 2019.Dr. Yi participated in the World Jean Monnet Conference and World EU Centre Conferencein Madrid, Spain, in 2010 and made a presentation on the Korea-EU FTA in Belgium. He was invited to the National Taiwan University and Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Taiwan to advise the EU-Taiwan ECA agreement. He was also invited to several international EU conferences as a speaker or discussant in Brussels, Madrid, Keio and Kobe universities (Japan), Irkutsk (Russia), Macao, Christ Church (NZ), Melbourne, Singapore, Taiwan, and Fudan University and Lenmin University (China), among others. He has published several books, including those on international commerce (1999), principles of international trade (2001), and international economics (2005). In addition, he has published more than 115 articles in leading Korean and international journals.