Kyungmin (Teddy) Kim

Curriculum Vitae

Current Position

Associate Professor of Economics, Emory University, since August 2019

Working Papers/Work in Progress 

1. Optimal Communication in Banking Supervision, with Jeong Ho (John) Kim, Victoria Liu, and Noam Tanner

2. Persuasion in Veto Bargaining, Jenny S. Kim and Richard Van Weelden

3. Pricing and Consumer Surplus in Monopoly with Product Design, with Nenad Kos 

4. Robust Product Design and Pricing, with Nenad Kos 

5. 'Sherlocking' and Platform Information Policy, with Jay Pil Choi and Arijit Mukherjee

6. Competitive Advertising and Pricing, with Ilwoo Hwang and Ralph Boleslavsky

7. Bayesian Persuasion and Moral Hazard, with Ralph Boleslavsky

8. Choosing Your Own Luck: Strategic Risk Taking and Effort in Contests, with R. Vijay Krishna and Dmitry Ryvkin

9. Statistical Discrimination in Ratings-Guided Markets, with Yeon-Koo Che and Weijie Zhong (ArXiv:2004.11531)

Publications 

1. Unemployment Duration under Flexible Information Acquisition, with Jeong Ho (John) Kim and Marilyn Pease, International Economic Review, 2024, Vol. 65, No. 1, pp. 471–503 (Working paper version)

2. Keeping the Listener Engaged: a Dynamic Model of Bayesian Persuasion, with Yeon-Koo Che and Konrad Mierendorff, Journal of Political Economy, 2023, Vol. 13, No. 7, pp. 1797–1844 

   • Working paper version

   • Our dear friend and coauthor, Konrad Mierendorff, passed away on August 7, 2021 (UCL Tribute to Konrad). We will tremendously miss him. 

3. Auctions with Flexible Information Acquisition, with Youngwoo Koh, Games and Economic Behavior, 2022, Vol. 133, pp. 256–281 

4. Bayesian Persuasion and Information Design: Perspectives and Open Issues, with Emir Kamenica and Andriy Zapechelnyuk, editorial to the ET Special Issue on Communication and Persuasion, Economic Theory, 2021, Vol. 72, pp. 701–704

5. Optimal Information Design for Search Goods, with Michael Choi and Marilyn Pease,  AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2019, Vol. 109, pp. 550-556

6. Selling a Lemon under Demand Uncertainty, with Sun Hyung Kim, International Economic Review, 2019, Vol. 60, No. 1, pp. 75-103

7. Efficiency and Revenue in Asymmetric Auctions, with Youngwoo Koh, Korean Economic Review, 2019, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 371–391 

8. Trading Dynamics with Private Buyer Signals in the Market for Lemons, with Ayca Kaya, Review of Economic Studies, 2018, Vol. 85, No. 4, pp. 2318-2352

9. Consumer Search and Price Competition, with Michael Choi and Anovia (Yifan) Dai, Econometrica, 2018, Vol. 86, No. 4, pp. 1257-1281. 

10. Costly Search with Adverse Selection: Solicitation Curse vs. Acceleration Blessing, with Marilyn Pease, RAND Journal of Economics, 2017, Vol. 48, No. 2, pp. 526-553

11. Information about Sellers' Past Behavior in the Market for Lemons, Journal of Economic Theory, 2017, Vol. 169, pp. 365-399.

12. Information Spillovers, Gains from Trade, and Interventions in Frozen Markets, with Braz Camargo and Ben Lester, Review of Financial Studies, 2016, Vol. 29, No. 5, pp. 1291-1329.

13. Efficient Competition through Cheap Talk: The Case of Competing Auctions, with Philipp Kircher, Econometrica, 2015, Vol. 83, No. 5, pp. 1849-1875.

14. Public Offers in the Market for Lemons with Large Discounting, Economics Letters, 2015, Vol. 130, pp. 63-65.

15. Honesty vs. Advocacy, with Jonathan Pogach, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2014, Vol. 105, pp. 51-74.

16. Information Acquisition in a War of Attrition, with Frances Xu Lee, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2014, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 37-78.

17. Endogenous Market Segmentation for Lemons, RAND Journal of Economics, 2012, Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 562-576. 

18. Robustness of the Uniqueness of Walrasian Equilibrium with Log-Linear Utilities, with David Cass, Abhinash Borah, Maxym Kryshko, Antonio Penta, and Jonathan Pogach, in "The Collected Works of David Cass - Part C", Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2011.

19. The Coase Conjecture with Incomplete Information on the Monopolist's Commitment, Theoretical Economics, 2009, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 17-44.