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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 - Mar 2026 (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)
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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