Sang Rae Kim

경희대학교 경제학과 김상래

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

I earned my PhD in Economics from Yale University in 2023.

Research Interests:

• Financial economics

• Macroeconomics

• Economics of cryptocurrency and fintech

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

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

News:

June 2026: “Macro-Financial Impact of Stablecoin’s Demand for Treasuries” got a second round R&R at the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control.

June 2026: I uploaded a new paper “Artificial Intelligence and Information-Insensitive Debt”

March 2026: I uploaded a new paper “Stablecoin as a Novel Channel of International Capital Flows.”

March 2026: I uploaded a revised version of the paper “When Shadow Banks Come Out of the Shadow: Unsecured Retail Funding and Financial Intermediation in Securities Firms.”