Kim Kyung Hwan is Professor of Economics at Sogang University. He completed his Ph. D. in Economics at Princeton University with the dissertation "An Analysis of Inefficiency of an Urban Housing Market: The Case of Seoul, Korea." He was previously a visiting professor in the Department of Real Estate and Urban Land Economics at University of Wisconsin-Madison and has worked as Urban Finance Advisor to the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements. His research interests include real estate and urban economics, spatial and territorial development polices, and public finance.