Department of Economics
Sogang University
Seoul 04107, KOREA
Tel: 82-2-705-8513
Email: dkim@sogang.ac.kr
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Professor, Department of Economics, Sogang University, 2013 ~
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Sogang University, 2008 ~ 2013
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Sogang University, 2006 ~ 2008
Assistant Professor, Department of Business, University of Idaho, 2003 ~ 2006
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Economics, 2002, University of Washington
M.A., Economics, 1993, Sogang University
B.A., Sociology and Economics (double major), 1991, Sogang University
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Contract Theory, Industrial Organization, Organizational Economics, Behavioral Economics
PUBLICATIONS
Be Ambitious or Lower Your Expectation: Goals as Optimal Reference Points, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2023
Use It or Lose It (with F. Khalil and J. Lawarree), Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2019
Motivating for New Changes When Agents Have Reputation Concerns, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017
Contracts Offered by Bureaucrats (with F. Khalil and J. Lawarree), RAND Journal of Economics, 2013
Delegation of Information Verification, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2013
Evidence of Asymmetric Information in the Automobile Insurance Market: Dichotomous versus Multinomial Measurement of Insurance Coverage (with J. Hardin, S. Im, and H. Kim), Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2009
On the Information Gathering Role of Firm-Sponsored Training for New Hires (with J. Lawarree), Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2009
Capital Budgeting for New Projects: On the Role of Auditing in Information Acquisition, Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2006
Optimal Task Design: To Integrate or Separate Planning and Implementation? (with F. Khalil and D. Shin), Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2006
Exit Option in Hierarchical Agency (with J. Lawarree and D. Shin), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2004