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. Economic Inquiry, 2024, 62(3), 1216-1245.)
The Attention Economy: Measuring the Value of Free Goods on the Internet. (With Erik Brynjolfsson and JooHee Oh. Information Systems Research (one of the Financial Times top 50 journals). 2023, 35(3):978-991. )
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).
