2024–2025
Research Assistant
Kyung Hee University
Academic Information
Research & Experience
Fields of Interest
Information Economics
Law and Economics
Industrial Organization
Published Papers
2025
Heterogeneous Impacts of Fear and Policy on Building Energy Use during COVID-19 in South Korea SCI
Yoo, J., Kim, D., and Kim, M. iScience, 29(1), 114479.
Full article ↗2024
On the Invariance Result of Liability Rules in Oligopoly
Kim, D., and Kim, J.-Y. Review of Law & Economics, 20(3): 439–455.
Journal article ↗ · Open version ↗Working Papers
Belief Drift and Directional Inference in English Auctions
Working paper ↗Implementable Randomization and Cross-Sectional Stability
Working paper ↗The Implementability of Punishment: Cooperation under Protocol Constraints
Under review at International Journal of Game Theory.
Working paper ↗The Nim-Sum of a Random Integer Partition
Under review at International Journal of Game Theory (Combinatorial Games Collection).
Working paper ↗Works in Progress
AI Recognition and Price Dispersion with L. Wang
Work in progress.
Research Experience
2023–2024
Undergraduate Researcher
Climate Change Big Data & AI Economics Lab, University of Seoul
Teaching Experience
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Teaching Assistant
Fall 2026 Mathematics for Economics (Graduate)
Fall 2026 Microeconomic Theory I (Graduate)
Spring 2026 Intermediate Microeconomics
Fall 2025 Principles of Microeconomics
Kyung Hee University
Teaching Assistant
Spring 2025 Industrial Organization (Graduate)
Spring 2024 Theory of Industrial Organization
Working Experience
2024
Intern
Korea Deposit Insurance Corporation (KDIC), Seoul, Republic of Korea
June 2024 – December 2024
Scholarships & Awards
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
2026 School Achievement Graduate Economics
2025 Graduate Research Stipend
2025 College of Social Sciences Dean's Scholarship for Academic Excellence
Kyung Hee University
2025 College Honors Award — Sole recipient from the Department of Economics; awarded to six top graduates across the College of Political Science and Economics — Kyung Hee University
2024 Outstanding Paper Award, Independent Learning & Research Advancement Program
2024 Independent Learning & Research Advancement Program Scholarship
2024 Professor–Student Interaction Program TA Scholarship — Theory of Industrial Organization
2023 Outstanding Paper Award, Independent Learning & Research Advancement Program
2023 Top Award for Professor–Student Interaction Lecture Notes — Law & Economics
2023 Top Award for Professor–Student Interaction Lecture Notes — Theory of Industrial Organization
2023 Top Award for Social Volunteering — Service-Learning 2
Education
2025–Present
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Ph.D. Student in Economics
2021–2025
Kyung Hee University
B.A. in Economics