Inhwa Kim

Inhwa Kim, Ph.D

Academic Chair & Assistant Professor

Anheuser-Busch School of Business

Harris-Stowe State University

Saint Louis, 63103 MO

Email: KimI@hssu.edu

https://www.hssu.edu/rsp_content.html?wid=36&pid=585

Research Interest:

Behavioral Economics, Behavioral Finance,Urban Economics, Housing Economics, Experimental Economics

Inhwa is a Assistant Professor of Economics  at Harris-Stowe State University. Also, she received a Ph.D in Economics from Middle Tennessee State University in 2021. 

Her current research interest includes Behavioral Economics and Finance. Her latest research is on risk preference and mortgage performance. She also proposed ways to solve the racial wealth inequality.

Publication:

Kim, I. (2024). Dreaming for unveiling housing inequality: mortgage lending disparities within the heartland of America. SN Business & Economics, 4(10), 122. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43546-024-00722-6

Kim I. & K. Gamble, 2022, Too much or too little information: how unknown uncertainty fuels time inconsistency. SN Business & Economics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s43546-021-00189-9

Conferences:

Allied Social Science Associations, Philadelphia, PA, Tentative January 2026

GEOINT Symposium, St. Louis, MO, May 2025

USASBE Conference, Las Vegas, NV, February 2025

Annual St. Louis Fed Professors Conference, St. Louis, MO, November 2024

Southern Economic Association, Washington D.C., November 2024

International Mathematics and Economics, Chicago, IL, July 2024

U.S. Census Bureau Workshop on Race, Ethnicity, & Inequality, Virtual, November 2023

2023 U.S. Census Bureau Workshop on Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality, Nov. 14 – 15, 2023

93rd Southern Economic Association, New Orleans, LA, Nov. 17 – 20, 2023

21st Annual St. Louis Fed Professors Conference, St. Louis, MO, Nov. 2 – 3, 2023

60th Missouri Valley Economic Association conference, Kansas City, MO, Oct. 26 – 28, 2023

      98th Western Economics Association International (scheduled), San Diego, CA, 2023

92st Southern Economic Association, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 2022

50th Urban Affairs Association, Washington D.C. Apr. 2022 

91st Southern Economic Association, Houston, TX, Nov. 2021

14th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Behavioral Finance & Economics, Los Angeles, CA, Sep. 2021

3rd Annual BEST Conference on Human Behaviour & Decision Making 2021, Zoom, Feb. 2021

“Successfully Navigating Your Economics Ph.D” workshop, Zoom, 2020 

90th Southern Economic Association, New Orleans, 2020

International Conference and Exhibition on Biometrics & Biostatistics, San Antonio 2015

International Symposium on Complex Analysis and its Applications, Korea 2001

Conference on Applications of Complex Function Theory to Differential Equations, Japan 1998

Honors & Awards:

Urban Leader Fellowship

TN region         Tentative 2026

Harris-Stowe State University

KEMPER Research Fund                                                                                                     2022 - 2023

Middle Tennessee State University

Political Economy Research Institute Dissertation Fellowship                        Fall 2020 - Summer 2021

Political Economy Research Institute Ph.D. Summer Fellowship          Summer 2020, Summer 2021

Graduate Assistantship                                                 Fall 2013 - Spring 2015, Spring 2017- present

Award for the International Global Scholar                                                                            Fall 2016

Pukyong National University

Graduate Assistantship                                                                                     Spring 1994 - Fall 1998

Academic Outstanding Award                                                                                            1990 - 1993

Memberships:

Member of American Economic Association                                                                 2019 – present

Member of American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association                          2021 – present

Reviewer of American Journal of Applied Mathematics                                                2019 – present

Referee of Journal of Inequalities and Applications                                                                     2007