Kirak Kim Profile

Kirak "Daniel" Kim is an assistant professor of finance at Texas A&M University Central Texas, College of Business Administration. He has taught a variety of subjects in financial markets, corporate finance, and investments at undergraduate and graduate levels. He also has ample experience of providing one-on-one supervisions to undergraduate and master's students on their research projects, as well as to Ph.D. students on their doctoral dissertations. He returned to the U.S. in 2022, after teaching at the University of Bristol in the UK for nine years. Prior to that, he was a graduate teaching fellow at Arizona State University during his PhD. Dr. Kim's research interest lies in Corporate Finance, with a current focus placed on legal and political institutions, frictions in labor markets, and social and environmental problems in conjunction with firms' and investors' economic choices and outcomes. His work has been published in premier academic journals, such as Management Science, Review of Corporate Finance Studies, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, and Journal of Empirical Finance. Dr. Kim holds a PhD in finance from Arizona State and an MBA from Ohio State and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy UK (FHEA). He received multiple grants and awards, including British Academy/Leverhulme Trust research grant, and was nominated for teaching awards and best research paper awards. Prior to his academic career, he worked for Citigroup and Korea-America Bank in Seoul.

Areas of Professional Expertise: Corporate finance, Labor institutions, Real-side frictions, Political/Social/Envrionmental issues in finance, Financial contracting, Governance.

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