Yeong Jae KimKDI School of Public Policy and Management | KDI
Yeong Jae Kim
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Dr. Yeong Jae Kim is an Associate Professor at KDI School of Public Policy and Management, Adjunct Professor at KAIST College of Business, and affiliated scientist at RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE). The CMCC Foundation – Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, in partnership with Resources for the Future (RFF), the energy and environmental economics think tank based in Washington, DC.
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Open green innovation is essential to accelerate decarbonization in Africa. The dearth of empirical evidence on the currenttrajectory of green innovation in Africa often hinders appropriate green innovation policy design. This study investigatesthe incidence of collaboration in inventive activities within Africa using the‘designation of the invento...
The decades-old question of whether oil is a blessing or a curse to countries that discover it has received much attention in the literature on energy and resource economics and policy. Despite the contributions of the resource curse literature and its critique, the global consensus to address climate change by reducing emissions from fossil fuels...
Green growth policies aim to address both climate change and economic growth and are now prevalent throughout many economies. While green growth is sufficiently assessed in qualitative, case-study-based literature, quantitative and cross-country analyses are still limited. In response to this research deficit, our aim is twofold: (1) to develop a c...
This study examines the impact of barriers to knowledge diffusion in energy technologies in 29 countries from 1990 to 2015, distinguishing between efficient fossil-based generation and mature renewable options, namely wind and solar. We show that knowledge flows are higher in countries with similar technological profiles, particularly for mature re...
Decarbonising the power sector requires feasible strategies for the rapid phase-out of fossil fuels and the expansion of low-carbon sources. This study assesses the feasibility of plausible decarbonisation scenarios for the power sector in the Republic of Korea through 2050 and 2060. Our power plant stock accounting model results show that achievin...
Current electricity generation systems have been dominated by lumpy energy technologies because the electricity they create has been cheaper than that generated from granular technologies. Accelerating the development and deployment of low-carbon technologies to mitigate climate change will require a better understanding of how lumpy and granular t...
The decision to transition to low-carbon energy often needs to identify how efficiently to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and supply energy. The limited studies that account for cost efficiency of energy supply and carbon reduction allow a decision maker to balance energy supply against the corresponding greenhouse gas emissions for a given ener...
Collaboration plays a crucial role in accelerating low-carbon innovation, which, as an emerging technology, requires knowledge in varied domains from diverse actors across the globe. Whereas previous research has shown that collaboration positively affects low-carbon innovation, the unintended consequence of cumulating stocks of knowledge on low-ca...
Decarbonisation of the power sector requires feasible strategies for rapid phase-out of fossil fuels and expansion of low-carbon sources. This study develops and uses a model with an explicit account of power plant stocks to explore plausible decarbonization scenarios of the power sector in the Republic of Korea through 2050 and 2060. The results s...
This study identifies the effect of Uber on the air quality of urban agglomerations in the United States. For this, we infer its causal impact on the Environmental Protection Agency’s air quality index with state-of-the-art difference-in-difference estimators accounting for Uber’s staggered implementation and dynamic treatment effects. Results show...
Decarbonisation of the power sector requires feasible strategies for rapid phase-out of fossil fuels and expansion of low-carbon sources. This study develops and uses a model with an explicit account of power plant stocks to explore plausible decarbonization scenarios of the power sector in the Republic of Korea through 2050 and 2060. The results s...
To foster the development, multiple sources of uncertainty associated with benefits and costs of innovation portfolios from low carbon investment need to be considered. We apply Modern Portfolio Theory to construct efficient portfolios of different low-carbon technology fields. The empirical framework is applied to four countries (i.e., Germany, th...
In the absence of a global greenhouse gas reduction mechanism, the EU adopted the strongest climate mitigation policy in the world. As a result of this, there are concerns about the challenges faced by EU carbon-intensive and trade exposed countries and industries as well as regarding the effective contribution of EU climate policies to GHG emissio...
Although numerous studies have examined the economic benefits of demand response programs, the environmental impacts of such programs have been relatively underexplored. This study assesses the impact of demand resource bidding on the wholesale energy market and the environment, based on three years of high temporal-resolution data from Korea. In t...
This paper empirically examines the relationship between research exemptions-which are mechanisms in patent law that provide shelter to researchers using patented inventions for scientific research from infringement claims-and innovation. We analyze a 2002 court decision (Madey v. Duke University) that has dramatically limited the scope of research...
This paper empirically examines the relationship between research exemptions-which are mechanisms in patent law that provide shelter to researchers using patented inventions for scientific research from infringement claims-and innovation. We analyze a 2002 court decision (Madey v. Duke University) that has dramatically limited the scope of research...
A systemic perspective on energy innovation is required to design effective portfolios of directed innovation activity. We contribute a standardised set of technology-specific indicators which describe processes throughout the energy technology innovation system, ranging from patents and publications to policy mixes, collaborative activity, and mar...
We develop a novel approach for quantitatively analysing future storylines of change by combining econometric analysis and Monte Carlo simulation for four different storylines of change in the EU's energy innovation system. We explore impacts on three key innovation outcomes: patenting (innovation), co-invention (collaboration), and technology cost...
A report compiled within the H2020 project SET-Nav (work package 9, deliverable D9.5) www.set-nav.eu. Project Coordinator: Technische Universität Wien (TU Wien) Work Package Coordinator: NTNU
Fostering the global development of low-carbon technology is crucial to mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. This paper analyzes the effect of energy-efficiency policies on lighting patenting between 1992 and 2007, using data for 19 OECD countries. We examine levels of energy-efficiency RD&D expenditures (representing a technology-push approach) an...
Research on science and technology policy has heavily relied on patent data. However, relatively few studies of food safety patent activity appear in scholarly literature. This paper provides a discussion on patents as a measure of new knowledge generation in the food safety sector. In so doing, there are inherent challenges to identifying a resear...
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the consistency of directed innovation activity in the EU with the priority areas set out in the SET Plan. We apply the Energy Technology Innovation System framework to evaluate the distribution of directed innovation efforts between the SET Plan priority areas in 2015. First, we review relevant literature on in...
Overview This chapter discusses how patent data can be used to provide additional information about the structure and commercialization of food safety research. Although, historically, a great deal of the research evaluating the impact of science has relied on the study of patents (1, 2), this is not the case in food safety. Experts participating i...
Numerous studies have shown the potential for US manufacturing to cut its energy costs by installing more efficient equipment that offers competitive payback periods, but the realization of this potential is hindered by numerous obstacles. This paper evaluates seven federal policy options aimed at revitalizing US manufacturing by improving its ener...