Yun-Soo Kim 

Education

• University of South Carolina, Visiting Ph.D. Student, Mar 2025 - Present

• KAIST, Ph.D. Candidate in Finance, Mar 2020 - Present

• Seoul National University, B.A. in Economics, Feb 2020

Working Papers

Lending in the Smog: Bank Exposure to Air Pollution and the Amplification of Transition Risk (with Allen N. Berger, Hyun-Soo Choi, and Hugh H. Kim)

• • Best Ph.D. Paper Award, Sydney Banking and Financial Stability Conference 2024

  • Presentations: FMA 2025, SFA 2025, University of South Carolina, KAIST, Monash University, Federal Reserve Board, Sydney Banking and Financial Stability Conference 2024, Conference on Asia-Pacific Financial Markets (CAFM) 2024

Stock Mispricing and Dual Holders' Loan Pricing (with Yeonggyu Yun)

• • Best Ph.D. Student Paper Award, Korean Finance Association 2023

  • Best Ph.D. Student Paper Award, Joint Conference with the Allied Korea Finance Associations 2024

  • Presentations: AFA PhD Poster 2025, FMA 2024, Australasian Finance & Banking Conference 2024,  Sydney Banking and Financial Stability Conference 2023,  

Joint Conference with the Allied Korea Finance Associations 2024,  Korean Finance Association 2023, KAIST

Dishonest or Misunderstood? Corporate Environmental Commitment and the Value of Persistence (with Hyun-Soo Choi and Hugh H. Kim)

• • Presentations: ASSA-IBEFA 2023, FMA 2022, Conference on Asia-Pacific Financial Markets (CAFM) 2022, Global AI Finance Research Conference 2022, 

Annual Conference of the Asia-Pacific Association of Derivative (APAD) 2022, Joint Conference with the Allied Korea Finance Associations 2022, 

University of South Carolina, KAIST

• Media Coverage: Duke Law School FinReg Blog