Kyungho Lee
Welcome. I am a PhD candidate in economics at Yale. I will be on the job market 2026–2027.
- Primary Field
- Industrial Organization
- Secondary Fields
- Applied Microeconomics, Econometrics
My academic life has been featured in Yale Economics, SBS 문화재단, and SNU Economics.
Research
Working papers
Does Amazon's logistics service, Fulfillment by Amazon, restrict competition and harm consumers and sellers? I study e-commerce competition between Amazon and Walmart, showing evidence speaking to FTC v. Amazon (2023).
How should we design copyright policy when technology makes creative goods cheap to produce? We combine economic models with unstructured data (e.g., images and text) to study the competitive effects of copyright protection, focusing on a visual product—fonts.
Work in progress
How does Amazon's adoption of robots affect consumers and workers? I examine the role of market power in shaping the incidence of automation among consumers, workers, and Amazon.
How does competition affect a platform's incentives to design recommendation algorithms?