Underwood International College

Associate Professor, School of Economics

Profile

Jin Yeub Kim is an associate professor in the School of Economics at Yonsei University. She serves as a faculty advisor to the Law School Track for undergraduate students in the School of Economics. Prior to joining Yonsei University, she worked as an assistant professor of Economics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for five years. Jin Yeub received her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 2014 under supervision of Roger B. Myerson, and B.A. in Economics and Mathematics from Yonsei University in 2007. Her research interests are in bargaining theory, mechanism design, political economy and law & economics.

Education

Ph.D., Economics, University of Chicago, 2014
B.A., Economics and Mathematics, Yonsei University, 2007

Courses and Current Research Areas

Undergraduate courses: Game Theory and Applications, Public and Political Economics, Information and Games
Current research areas: Bargaining theory, Mechanism design, Political Economy, Law & Economics

Selected Publications

“Negotiation States with Promise and Threat,” Review of Economic Design 26:149-164, 2022.
“When Does Terrorism Occur: Game-Theoretic Analysis and Offense-Defense Balance,” The Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics 62(2):59-73, 2021.
“Neutral Bargaining in Financial Over-The-Counter Markets,” AEA Papers and Proceedings 109:539-544, 2019.
“Counterthreat of Attack to Deter Aggression,” Economics Letters 167C: 112-114, 2018.
“The Economics of the Right to be Forgotten” with Byung-Cheol Kim, The Journal of Law and Economics 60(2):335-360, 2017.
“Interim Third-Party Selection in Bargaining,” Games and Economics Behavior, 102:645-665, 2017.