Dong-Hyuk Kim

Associate Professor, School of Economics at University of Queensland, Colin Clark Building (39), St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia [Email], T: +61 7 3365 6600

Curriculum Vitae [Upon Request]

Fields: Industrial Organization, Econometrics, Microeconomics.

Working Papers:

1. How Costly to Sell a Company? A Structural Analysis of Takeover Auctions, with Ying Zheng [SSRN]

2. Uncertain Number of Bidders: When Uncertainty Helps (or Hurts), with Seungwon (Eugene) Jeong [SSRN]

3. Detection of Loss-Aversion in Auctions Against Pre-programmed Computers, with Anmol Ratan [SSRN] 

4. Hours Constraints and Moonlighting: Evidence from South Korea's Workweek Reforms, with Chung Choe and Hyeongsin Kim [SSRN]

Works in Progress:

1. Outsourcing and Market Thickness: The Case of U.S. Credit Unions, with Yukako Ono

2. Densities of Attributes for Compliers and Noncompliers, with Dain Jung and Do Won Kwak 

Publications:

1. "Optimal Reserve Prices under Seller Uncertainty," with Allan Hernández-Chanto, 2026, Economic Theory, forthcoming [SSRN] 

2. "Designing Emissions Trading Schemes for a Price-Regulated and Concentrated Industry: Insights from China’s Power Sector," with Hui Qiao and Ying Zheng, 2026, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 107 (103301) [Paper] [SSRN].

3. "Too Much, Too Soon? Early-maturing Maize Varieties as Drought Escape Strategy in Malawi," with Uwe Grewer and Katharina Waha, 2024, Food Policy, 129 (102766)  [Paper].

4. "Procurements with Bidder Asymmetry in Cost and Risk-Aversion," with Gaurab Aryal, Hanna Charankevich, and Seungwon (Eugene) Jeong, 2023, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 41(4), 1143-1156  [Paper][SSRN]. 

5. "The Effect of Government Expenditure on Income Inequality in Sri Lanka," with Anusha L. Samarasekara, 2023, Applied Economics Letters, 30(12), 1606-1611 [Paper].

6. "Disentangling Risk-Aversion and Loss Aversion in First-Price Auctions: An Empirical Approach," with Anmol Ratan, 2022, European Economic Review,  150 (104284) [Paper][SSRN].

7. "Empirical Relevance of Ambiguity in First Price Auctions," with Gaurab Aryal, Serafin Grundl, and Yu Zhu, 2018, Journal of Econometrics, 204(2), 189-206 [Paper].

8. "A Fast Estimation Procedure for Discrete Choice Random Coefficients Demand Model," with Yong Song and Huaxin Xu, 2017, Applied Economics, 49(58), 5849-5855 [Paper].

9. "Flexible Bayesian Analysis of First Price Auctions Using a Simulated Likelihood," 2015, Quantitative Economics, 6(2), 429-461 [Paper].

10. "Nonparametric Estimation of Utility Functions in First Price Auctions," 2015, Economics Letters, 126(1), 101-106 [Paper].

11. "A Point Decision for Partially Identified Auction Models," with Gaurab Aryal, 2013, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 31(4), 384-397 [Paper].

12. "Optimal Choice of a Reserve Price Under Uncertainty," 2013, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 31(5), 587-602 [Paper].

PhD dissertation:

Bayesian Econometrics for Auction Models, 2010, University of Arizona (supervisor: Keisuke Hirano) [Dissertation]