SeongYeob Kim
Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at Iowa State University.
On the 2025-2026 job market.
My research interests are Industrial Organization and Market Design
in the Digital & Platform Economy.
I study today's evolving economy, where:
firms are institutional designers—not just price setters.
digital and traditional markets co-evolve, with structural changes emerging.
Working Papers
Product Purchasing Contest (Under Review)
The Impact of Cannabis Tourism on the Airbnb Industry
with Minsek Ko and David Bojanic (Forthcoming in Tourism Economics)
Rent Seeking and Dissipation in Contests with General Power Functions
Product Purchasing Contest under Incomplete Information
Research in Progress
The First Spark: Early-Bird Incentives to Ignite Social Spillovers in the Movie Industry