Seon Tae Kim 김선태 

School of Management & Economics, Handong Global University,

558 Handong-ro, Buk-gu, Pohang-si, Gyeongbuk, 37554, Republic of Korea.

Phone: +82 (0)54 260 1416         • Email: skim78 AT handong.edu 

Academic Position

          Associate Professor of Economics, Handong Global University                                   2021-Present

  Lecturer in Economics, Management School, University of Liverpool                     2016-2021

          Visiting Scholar, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University              2015-2016 

          Assistant Professor of Finance, ITAM Business School                                              2011-2016

Education

W.P. Carey School of Business                                                                                2005-2011

Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

PhD in Economics

Committee: Richard Rogerson (advisor), Edward C. Prescott (chair), Seung Ahn and Stuart Low

Dissertation title: Essays in Financial and International Macroeconomics

 Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ                                                                       2005-2007

MA in Economics

Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea                                                                  1997-2000, 2004

BA in Economics (cum laude)

Research and Teaching Interests

Financial Economics, Digital Economy, International Economics, Macroeconomics, Energy Economics.

Publication

• Market Intelligence Gathering, Asymmetric Information, and the Instability of Money Demand. (With Alessandro Marchesiani. Accepted for publication in Economic Inquiry. 2024.) 

• The Attention Economy: Measuring the Value of Free Goods on the Internet. (With Erik Brynjolfsson and JooHee Oh. Accepted for publication in Information Systems Research (one of the Financial Times top 50 journals). 2023.) 

• Global Value Chain and Misallocation: Evidence from South Korea (With Bongseok Choi. Jounral of Korea Trade, 2022, 26(4):1-22.) 

• Music Intelligence: Granular Data and Prediction of Top Ten Hit Songs. (With JooHee Oh. Decision Support Systems, 2021, 145, 113535.)

• Financial Intermediation, Costly Information Production, and Small Industry Growth (With Bongseok Choi. Global Economic Review, 2020, 49(1):60-96.) 

• Price Risk Management and Capital Structure of Oil and Gas Project Companies: Difference between Upstream and Downstream Industries (With Bongseok Choi. Energy Economics, 2019, 83:361-374.) 

• Price Volatility and Risk Management of Oil and Gas Companies: Evidence from Oil and Gas Project Finance Deals (With Bongseok Choi. Energy Economics, 2018, 76:594–605.)

• Monetary Policy Shocks and Distressed Firms' Stock Returns: Evidence from the Publicly Traded U.S. Firms (With Luca Rescigno. Economics Letters, 2017, 160:91-94.)

• The Payment Schedule of Sovereign Debt (With Yan Bai and Gabriel Mihalache. Economics Letters, 2017, 161:19-23.)

• The Impacts of the Optimal Non-Financial Contractual Structure on the Leverage Ratio in Project Finance (With Changmin Lee and Bongseok Choi). (Environmental and Resource Economics Review, 2014, 23(4):643-665. Written in Korean)

• The Price of Imports and TFP: Application to the Korean Crisis of 1997-1998. (Review of Economic Dynamics, 2014, 17:39-51.)

Working Papers

• User-Generated Capital and Firm Value: Theory and Evidence from Internet Firms. (With Erik Brynjolfsson and JooHee Oh.)

• Revenue Sharing and User Engagement in Social Media: Theory and Evidence from YouTube. (With JooHee Oh and Il-horn Hann.)

Work In Progress

• Idiosyncratic Risk and Monetary Stabilization Policy. (With Alessandro Marchesiani.)

• Risk Aversion and Monetary Stabilization Policy. (With Alessandro Marchesiani and Asif Iqbal.)

• Whither Bitcoin? Medium of Exchange vs. Store of Value. (With JooHee Oh.)

• Systemic Risk of Financial Products. (With Kyu-Bong Cho.)

• Evolution of Global Value Chains. (With Bongseok Choi.)

• Intellectual Property Rights and Firm Performance. (With Hye-Seo Yoon.)

Consultancy Project (연구용역)

• Value of Internet and Attention Economy during COVID-19: The Case of Japan. 2023. 일본 노무라 종합 연구소 (Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.). 참여: 연구원.

• 코비드 19기간 동안 일본의 디지털 경제 발전 및 관심 (Development of digital economy in Japan during the Covid-19 period). 2022. 일본 노무라 종합 연구소 (Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.). 참여: 연구원.

• 금융상품 리스크 분석 및 모니터링 시스템 구축 (Analysis of the Systemic Risk of Financial Products ). 2021. 금융감독원 (Financial Supervisory Service). 참여: 연구원.

• Risk Management and Capital Structure of Oil and Gas Companies: Case of Oil and Gas Project Finance Deals.  2012. 에너지경제연구원 (Korea Energy Economics Institute). 참여: 책임연구원.

Presentations

• Detecting Greenwashing in Sustainability Disclosures: A Prediction Model for KOSPI 200 Enterprises using ESG-BERT

2023 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Poster), 2023; NRI-HGU ESG Management & Big Data Joint Workshop, 2023*.

• Assessing Regional Disparities in Human Development and Multidimensional Poverty: A Satellite Imagery and Machine Learning Approach

2023 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Poster), 2023; NRI-HGU ESG Management & Big Data Joint Workshop, 2023*.

• A Data-Driven Approach to Predict Social Impact of Rural Tourism: Insights from UNWTO's Video Campaigns

2023 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Poster), 2023; NRI-HGU ESG Management & Big Data Joint Workshop, 2023*.

• Money demand, Information and Monetary Policy.

 2018 Workshop in Monetary Economics (Marrakech, Morroco) June 2018. 

• Monetary Policy Shocks and Distressed Firms' Stock Returns: Evidence from the Publicly Traded U.S. Firms.

        Bank of England Conference “Financial Services Indices, Liquidity and Economic Activity,” May 2017. 

• The Maturity and Payment Schedule of Sovereign Debt.

        University of Kent, 2015; University of Liverpool, 2015; Sogang University, 2015; 

         American Economic Association Annual Meeting, 2015*;Society for Economic Dynamics Summer Meetings, 2014; 

         ASU PhD Reunion Conference, 2014; North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, 2014*; 

         Midwest Macroeconomics Meetings, 2014*; Research Seminar at Bank of Finland, 2013.

• User-Generated Capital and Firm Value: Theory and Evidence from Internet Firms.

        ASU PhD Reunion Conference, 2015; NBER Summer Institute, 2014; 

         Workshop on Information Systems and Economics in ICIS (Milan, Italy), 2013*.

• Corporate Credit Spreads and Business Cycles

ASU Reunion Macroeconomics Workshop, 2012; North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, 2012; Financial and Macroeconomic Stability: Challenges Ahead, 2012; Midwest Macroeconomics Meetings, 2012; Research Seminar, Banco de Mexico, 2011; KDI, 2011; Hanyang Univ., 2011; ITAM Business School, 2011; Samsung Research Institute of Finance, 2011.

• Financial Intermediation, Costly Information Production, and Cross-Section of Firm Growth: Theory and Evidence

        Sogang University, 2015*; Korea University, 2014*; the Money, Macro and Finance Conference, 2014*; 

        El III Congreso de Investigaci.on Financiera IMEF, 2013; KMFA 2013*.

• The Price of Imports and TFP: Application to the Korean Crisis of 1997-1998.

        Macroeconomics Workshop, Arizona State University, 2009.

* indicates presentation by coautor(s).

Professional Activity

• Referee for academic journals: AEJ Macroeconomics; Oxford Economic Papers; Energy Economics; Public Finance Review; Bulletin of Economic Research; Energy Sources; Global Economic Review.

• Reviewer for grant applications: Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC); UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship (FLF). 

• Reviewer for presentations at Conferences: FEMIB (2019—2021).

Teaching Experiences

• Economics:

Macroeconomics (undergraduate), Handong Global University, 2021 – Present.

Econometrics (undergraduate), Handong Global University, 2021 – Present.

Mathematics for Economics, (undergraduate), Handong Global University, 2023 – Present.

Introduction to Economics, (undergraduate), Handong Global University, 2022 - Present.

Intermediate Macroeconomics (undergraduate), U. of Liverpool Management School, 2016 – 2020.

•  Finance:

Financial Data Analytics, Handong Global University, 2022 – Present.

Corporate Financial Management for Non-Specialist Students (undergraduate), U. of Liverpool Management School, Fall 2016 – Present.

Fixed Income and Risk Management (undergraduate), ITAM Business School, Spring 2015.

Corporate Finance (both undergraduate and master), ITAM Business School, Fall 2011 – Spring 2015.

Fundamentals of Corporate Finance (undergraduate), ITAM Business School, Spring 2012 – Fall 2013.

Valuation of Stocks (master), ITAM Business School, Spring 2014 – Spring 2015.

• Business Statistics, ASU School of Business, Summer 2007, Summer 2008, Summer 2009.

Honors and Awards

Early Career Research Award in Economics, U. of Liverpool Management School, 2018.

National System of Researchers (SNI) in Mexico, February 2015 - 2016.

The 6th year funding, ASU, 2011.

Research assistantship for professor E. C. Prescott, ASU, Summer 2010.

Outstanding Dissertation Research Award, ASU, 2009.

Best qualifying examination in macroeconomics, ASU, 2007.

Outstanding first year student, ASU, 2006.

Full tuition and stipend, ASU, 2005-2010.