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Kyungmin Kim

Assistant Professor
Economics
W382  John Pappajohn Bus Bldg
The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1994		 Ph: 319-335-0982
Fax: 319-335-1956
E-mail: kyungmin-kim@uiowa.edu

Academic History

  • PhD in Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 2009
  • BA in Economics, Seoul National University, Korea, 2004

Expertise

  • Applied Economic Theory
  • Game Theory

    Selected Publications

    Working Papers

    • A Robustly Efficient Auction and Informational Size, Kyungmin Kim, Antonio Penta
    • Efficient Cheap Talk in Directed Search: On the Non-essentiality of Commitment in Market Games, Kyungmin Kim, Philipp Kircher
    • Honesty vs. Advocacy, Kyungmin Kim, Jonathan Pogach
    • Information about Sellers' Past Behavior in the Market for Lemons, Kyungmin Kim
    • Information Acquisition in a War of Attrition, Kyungmin Kim, Frances Zhiyun Xu

          Prior Positions

          • Assistant Professor of Economics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, July 2009 - May 2010

          Review and Editorial Work

          • Referee, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
          • Referee, Econometrica
          • Referee, Games and Economic Behavior
          • Referee, International Economic Review
          • Referee, International Journal of Game Theory
          • Referee, Journal of Mathematical Economics
          • Referee, Journal of Public Economics
          • Referee, Review of Economic Studies

            Presentations

            • Information about Sellers' Past Behavior in the Market for Lemons, Invited seminar, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, April 2012
            • Efficient Cheap Talk in Directed Search: On the Non-essentiality of Commitment in Market Games, 2012 North American Winter Econometric Society Meeting, Econometric Society, Chicago, January 2012
            • Efficient Cheap Talk in Directed Search: On the Non-essentiality of Commitment in Market Games, Invited seminar, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, September 2011

            Committees and Professional Service

            • Research seminar