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Welcome! I am a Ph.D. candidate in Finance at KAIST College of Business.
I am currently visiting the Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina.
I am on the 2025-26 job market and available for interviews.
Research Interests: Banking, Financial Intermediation, Corporate Finance, Climate Finance
Email: yunsoo.kim@moore.sc.edu
1014 Greene Street, Columbia, SC 29208, USA
Education
University of South Carolina, Visiting Ph.D. Student, Mar 2025 - Present (Host: Allen N. Berger, Hugh H. Kim)
KAIST, Ph.D. in Finance, 2020 - 2026 (expected)
Seoul National University, B.A. in Economics, 2020
Working Papers
The SOFR Premium in Nonbank Loans (Job Market Paper)
Presentations: University of South Carolina
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: Federal Reserve Board, Monash University, University of South Carolina, KAIST, SFA 2025, FMA 2025, 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) Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Banking and Finance
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
(with Hyun-Soo Choi, Hugh H. Kim, and Paul Kim)
Semifinalist for Best Paper Award in Investments, FMA 2022
KB Securities Best Paper Award, Conference on Asia-Pacific Financial Markets (CAFM) 2022
Presentations: ASSA-AREUEA 2023, CICF 2022, ABFER 2022, SFA 2022, FMA 2022, Conference on Asia-Pacific Financial Markets (CAFM) 2022, AsRES-AREUEA Joint Conference 2022, Annual Conference of the Asia-Pacific Association of Derivatives (APAD) 2022, Joint Conference with the Allied Korea Finance Associations, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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 Derivatives (APAD) 2022, Joint Conference with the Allied Korea Finance Associations 2022,
University of South Carolina, KAIST
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