Jin-Hyuk Kim

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Education

Ph.D., Cornell University 
M.A., Cornell University 
B.A., Yonsei University

Research Interests

Industrial organization; organizational economics; political economics; intellectual properties; network industries; financing; contracting; lobbying

Regional and Thematic Interests

East Asia, Industrial Organization, Organizational Economics, Political Economics

Profile

Jin-Hyuk Kim is an associate professor with research interests in economic analysis of intellectual property rights especially copyrights, relational contracts, team organizations, post-employment restrictions, lobbying, and political institutions. His current work focuses on the impact of international harmonization of copyright levies on social welfare.

Selected Publications

“Eliminating Digital Rights Management from the E-book Market,” (co-authored with Tin Cheuk Leung) Information Economics and Policy, forthcoming. 

“Local Network Effects in the Adoption of a Digital Platform,” (co-authored with Peter Newberry, Liad Wagman, and Ran Wolff) Journal of Industrial Economics, forthcoming. 

“The Role of Design Method and Process Technology in Stable Outsourcing Equilibria,” (co-authored with Takehiko Komatsu and Hideo Owan) International Journal of Industrial Organization, 69, 2020, 102565. 

“The Unintended Consequences of Crowdsourcing Prior Art Search,” (co-authored with Benjamin Mitra-Kahn) Applied Economics, 52, 2020, 2569-2579. 

“The Impact of Access to Consumer Data on the Competitive Effects of Horizontal Mergers and Exclusive Dealing,” (co-authored with Liad Wagman and Abraham Wickelgren) Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 28, 2019, 373-391.

"Motivation and Performance of User-Contributors: Evidence from a CQA Forum,” (with Jed DeVaro, Liad Wagman, and Ran Wolff) Information Economics and Policy, 42, 2018, 56-65. 

“Can Restricting Property Use Be Value Enhancing? Evidence from Short-Term Rental Regulation,” (with Tin Cheuk Leung and Liad Wagman) Journal of Law and Economics, 60, 2017, 309-334. 

“Non-performance Pay and Relational Contracting: Evidence from CEO Compensation,” (with Jed DeVaro and Nick Vikander) Economic Journal, 128, 2018, 1923-1951. 

“Digital Rights Management and Hardware Market Power,” (with Michael Waldman) Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 13(2), 2016, 25-65. 

“Early-Stage Entrepreneurial Financing: A Signaling Perspective,” (with Liad Wagman) Journal of Banking & Finance, 67, 2016, 12-22. 

“R&D Investment, Planned Obsolescence and Network Effects,” (with Jong-Hee Hahn) Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 171(4) 2015, 652-665. 

“Screening Incentives and Privacy Protection in Financial Markets: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis,” (with Liad Wagman) RAND Journal of Economics, 46(1) 2015, 1-22. 

“Team-Based Incentives in Problem-Solving Organizations,” (with Nick Vikander) Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 31(2) 2015, 262-286. 

“Portfolio Size and Information Disclosure: An Analysis of Startup Accelerators,” (with Liad Wagman) Journal of Corporate Finance, 29, 2014, 520-534. 

“Indirect Network Effects and the Quality Dimension: A Look at the Gaming Industry,” (with Jeffrey Prince and Calvin Qiu) International Journal of Industrial Organization, 37, 2014, 99-108. 

“Employee Poaching: Why It Can Be Predatory,” Managerial and Decision Economics, 35(5) 2014, 309-317. 

“Determinants of Post-Congressional Lobbying Employment,” Economics of Governance, 14(2) 2013, 107-126. 

“A Simple Model of Copyright Levies: Implications for Harmonization,” International Tax and Public Finance, 20(6) 2013, 992- 1013. 

“Does Competition Affect Evolutionary Dynamics? Evidence from a Collegiate University,” Applied Economics Letters, 20(8) 2013, 781-785. 

“International Convergence of Copyright Production,” Review of Economics and Statistics 93(4) 2011, 1432-1439. 

“Peer Performance Evaluation: Information Aggregation Approach,” Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 20(2) 2011, 565-587. 

“Corporate Lobbying Revisited,” Business and Politics 10(2) 2008, Article 3.