Sang-Wook Cho

Sang-Wook Cho is an Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, where he serves as the Deputy Head of School in Education (Director of Education) within the School of Economics. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota in 2006, following an M.A. in Economics (with Mathematics minor) in 2003 and a B.A. in International Economics from Seoul National University in 1996.

His research interests span international economics, wage and income distribution, housing in macroeconomy, COVID-19 and macroeconomy, and free trade agreements. Professor Cho's work explores the macroeconomics of savings and consumption, inequality, public economics, and the causal effects of trade agreements. His research has been published in prestigious journals including the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Southern Economic Journal, The Econometrics Journal, and Economic Theory.

Professor Cho's recent publications demonstrate a clear focus on trade policy analysis, with particular attention to free trade agreements and their economic impacts. His work employs sophisticated econometric methods to study trade margins, new goods margin expansion, and regional economic disparities. The research also extends to pandemic economics, examining non-pharmaceutical interventions during the COVID-19 outbreak using Sweden as a case study.

Among his notable awards are the NHMRC CRE Grant for STRIDE (2023), International Research Collaboration Award (2019), and the Non-professorial Research Achievement Award from UNSW (2011). His grant history shows consistent funding support from various sources including NHMRC, ARC, and UNSW internal grants.

Professor Cho has supervised numerous PhD and Honours students who have gone on to positions at respected institutions including the University of Bath, UTS, Macroplan, Ernst & Young, BIS Oxford, ANU, Accenture, and the Reserve Bank of Australia. His teaching portfolio includes advanced macroeconomics courses at PhD, Honours, and undergraduate levels.