Hyunseob Kim

Senior Economist and Economic Advisor

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Hyunseob Kim

About

Hyunseob Kim is a senior economist and economic advisor in the economic research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Kim joined the Chicago Fed in 2021, following nine years with the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, where he was an assistant professor of finance. His research interests lie at the intersection of financial and labor economics.

Kim's research has been published in academic journals such as the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, and Review of Financial Studies. He received the Michael J. Brennan Best Paper Award from the Review of Financial Studies and the SFS Finance Cavalcade Award for Best Paper in Corporate Finance from the Society for Financial Studies. He has served as associate editor at the Journal of Financial Research.

Kim earned his Ph.D. in business administration (finance) from Duke University, A.M. in statistics from Harvard University, and B.B.A. in business administration from Seoul National University.

Bank Publications

Chicago Fed Letter

Policy Brief

Working papers

Working Papers

Hyuncheol Bryant Kim, Hyunseob Kim, John Y. Zhu | 2022 | No. 2022-51 | November Download
John R. Graham, Hyunseob Kim, Si Li, Jiaping Qiu | 2022 | No. 2022-09 | March Download

Selected External Publications

Acceptances in Academic Journals and Books

Campello, Murillo, Gaurav Kankanhalli, and Hyunseob Kim, 2024, “Delayed creative destruction: How uncertainty shapes corporate assets,” Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 153, 103786, March. 20240301060000
Graham, John R., Hyunseob Kim, Si Li, and Jiaping Chiu, 2023, “Employee costs of corporate bankruptcy,” Journal of Finance, Vol. 78, No. 4, August, pp. 2087–2137. 20230801050000
Kim, Hyuncheol Bryant, Hyunseob Kim, and John Y. Zhu, “The selection effects of part-time work: Experimental evidence from a large-scale recruitment drive,” Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.
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