I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at College of Politics and Economics, Kyung Hee University.

Research Interests:

• Financial economics

• Macroeconomics

• Economics of cryptocurrency and fintech

My work has been featured on media outlets like Bloomberg and MarketWatch.

Email: s.kim (at) khu.ac.kr or sangkim.econ (at) gmail.com

News:

April 2025: I uploaded a new paper “When Shadow Banks Come Out of the Shadow: Unsecured Retail Funding and Financial Intermediation in Securities Firms.”

January 2025: I uploaded an updated draft of the paper “How the Cryptocurrency Market is Connected to the Financial Market.”

December 2024: I uploaded a new paper “Macroeconomic Model of Market Power in the Global Semiconductor Industry.”

November 2024: My solo-authored paper “Bank Opacity and Safe Asset Moneyness” is available as a online preview at the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking.