Academic Positions
Assistant Professor, Oklahoma State University, Fall 2022–present
Teaching and research assistant, Ohio State University, 2016–2022
Teaching assistant, Seoul National University, 2012–2014
Education
Ph.D. Economics, The Ohio State University, 2022
Dissertation: Does the Internet Replace Brick-and-Mortar Bank Branches?
Committee: Jason Blevins (chair), Matthew Weinberg (co-chair), Adam Dearing
M.A. Economics, The Ohio State University, 2017
M.A. Economics, Seoul National University, 2014
Dissertation: Factors for the Increase in North Korea-China Trade and Its Impact on the North Korean Economy
Committee: Byung-Yeon Kim (chair), Keun Lee, Jae-Young
Kim
B.A. Economics, Summa Cum Laude, Seoul National University, 2011
Double major in Archaeology & Art History
Research Interests
Empirical Industrial Organization, Econometrics, Applied Microeconomics
Publications
Kim, Minhae, and Jayash Paudel (2025). Bridging the Rural Divide: The Impact of Broadband Grants on U.S. Agriculture, European Review of Agricultural Economics, forthcoming
Blevins, Jason, and Minhae Kim (2024). Nested Pseudo Likelihood Estimation of Continuous-Time Dynamic Discrete Games, Journal of Econometrics, 238(2), 105576.
Kim, Minhae (2023). Unintended Effects of Broadband Grants on Bank Branches. Southern Economic Journal, 90(2), 389–413.
Kim, Minhae, Ryan Mansley, Nathan Miller, Marc Remer, and Matthew Weinberg (2022). Price-Fixing Allegations in the Canned Tuna Industry: A Look at the Data, Antitrust Bulletin, 68(1), 154–163.
Works in Progress
Does the Internet Replace Brick-and-Mortar Bank Branches?
Nested Pseudo-Likelihood Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Games: A Replication and Retrospective, with Jason Blevins
Product Market Responses to Reputational Shocks and Public Relations Crises with Qi Ge and Myongjin Kim
When Major Airlines Share a Regional Partner: Impact on Price Dispersion with Myongjin Kim and Yeonjoon Lee
From Turbulence to Housing Market (under review) with Qi Ge, Donggeun Kim, and Myongjin Kim
The Impact of Gun Violence on Small Business: The Racial
Disparity with Yongseok Kim, Suman Basuroy, and Myongjin Kim
Price Asymmetry, Competition and Tacitly Coordinated Prices
with Collin DeVore, Myongjin Kim, and Nicholas G. Rupp
The Economic Effects of the Canned Tuna Cartel, with Ryan Mansley, Nathan Miller, Marc Remer, and Matthew Weinberg
Scientific
Software
Blevins, Jason, and Minhae Kim, Annotated MATLAB Translation of the Aguirregabiria and Mira (2007) Replication Code
Professional Experience
Junior Economist, Bank of Korea, 2014–2016
Editorial Services
Editor, The Journal of Women and Economics, Korean Women Economists Association, 2022– present
Referee for Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Journal of Economics and Business
Honors & Awards
G.S. Maddala Prize in Econometrics, The Ohio
State University, 2019
Tom Kniesner and Debbie Freund Award, The Ohio State
University, 2018
Distinguished Department of Economics Fellowship, The Ohio State
University, 2016 – 2017
Brain Korea 21 Scholarship, National Research Foundation of Korea,
2012
Samsung Scholarship, Samsung Corporation, 2006 – 2010
Financial Awards for Academic Excellence, Seoul National
University, 2008 – 2010
Invited Seminars
2025 Bank of Canada (scheduled)
2024 The Ohio State University
2023 Oklahoma State University (Department of Statistics)
University of Seoul
Korean-American Economics
Association
University of Oklahoma
2022 Chung-Ang University
Oklahoma State University
Auburn University
2021 NHH Norwegian School of Economics
The Ohio State University
Conference Presentations
2024 Conference on Auctions, Firm Behavior, and Policy (University of Oklahoma)
2023 International Industrial Organization Conference (Washington,
D.C.)
2022 Midwest Econometrics Group (Michigan State University)
Australasia Meeting of
the Econometric Society (The University of Queensland)
Korean Economics Association Conference (Korea University)
2021 Econometric Society Delhi Winter School (Delhi School of Economics)
Southern Economics Association Annual Meeting (Houston, Texas)
European Association for Research in Industrial Economics
(NHH Norwegian
School of Economics)
Korean Economic Review International Conference (Yonsei University)
China Meeting of the Econometric Society (ShanghaiTech University)
Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society (Curtin University, Malaysia)
International Association for Applied Econometrics Annual Conference
(King’s College London)
Africa Meeting of the Econometric Society (Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire)
Midwest Economics Association Annual Conference (Grinnell College)
Southwestern Finance Association Conference (Houston, Texas)
2020 European Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society (ESWM 2020,
Humboldt University)
Midwest Economics Association (Evanston, Illinois)
2019 Midwest Econometrics Group (The Ohio State University)
Teaching
Oklahoma State university
Econometrics I (PhD): Spring 2023, Spring 2025
Microeconomic Theory I (PhD): Spring 2023
Introduction to Macroeconomics: Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024
The Ohio State University
Industrial Organization: Autumn 2020, Spring 2021, Autumn 2021, Teaching assistant for Adam Dearing, Matthew Weinberg
Health Economics: Spring 2021, teaching assistant for Tamar Oostrom
Principles of Macroeconomics: Spring 2018/Spring 2019, Teaching assistant for Darcy Hartman
Principles of Microeconomics: Fall 2017/Spring 2022, Teaching assistant for Jeffrey Buser
Seoul National University
Special Lectures in Macroeconomics: Monetary and Fiscal Policies, Theory and Facts: Spring 2013, Teaching assistant for Thomas J. Sargent, Tack Yun
Computer Skills
Matlab, STATA, R, Python, LaTex