David Kim

MCom(Hons) UNSW PhD UNSW
Senior Lecturer

David Kim received his PhD from the University of New South Wales in May 2003. His main areas of interest are International Macroeconomics and Applied Macroeconomic Time Series with particular emphasis on the Asia Pacific region. Specifically, he has worked and is currently working on quantitative and empirical analysis of international business cycle, macroeconomic effects of foreign direct investment, and explaining and assessing the Asian financial crisis.

Research Expertise

• Macroeconomics and Growth

Research Interests

• Financial Markets and Growth
• Growth theory
• Income and Wealth Inequality
• International finance
• Macroeconomics

Publications

2011

Journal Article/s

Chua C, Kim D and Suardi S 2011 'Are Empirical Measures of Macroeconomic Uncertainty Alike? ', Journal of Economic Surveys, vol. 25:4, pp. 801–827

2009

Book Section/s

Jang I and Kim D 2009 'Macroeconomics of Catastrophic Event Risks: Research Comes of Age' in Emerging Topics in Macroeconomics, ed. Richard O. Bailly, Nova Science Publishers, New York, United States, pp. 29-34

Journal Article/s

Jang I and Kim D 2009 'The Dynamics of the Credit Spread and Monetary Policy: Empirical Evidence from the Korean Bond Market', Journal of Emerging Market Finance, vol.8:2, pp. 109-31

2008

Conference Paper/s

Kim D 2008 'Can Small Open Economy DSGE Model explain the recent Macroeconomic Performance in Australia?, Fourth Annual APEA (Asia-Pacific Economic Association) Conference, Beijing, China, 14th December 2008

Conference Proceeding/s

Kim D, Rammohan A and Ross R 2008 'Evaluating the Role of Teaching Innovations on Student Performance in Introductory Macroeconomics', The 37th Australian Conference of Economists (ACE08), Gold Coast, Australia, 3rd October 2008

2007

Journal Article/s

Kim D and Sheen JRalph 2007 'Consumption Risk-Sharing within Australia and with New Zealand', The Economic Record, vol.83:260, pp. 46-59

Kim D 2007 'An East Asian Currency Union?: The Empirical Nature of Macroeconomic Shocks in East Asia', Journal of Asian Economics, vol.18:6, pp. 847-866

Conference Paper/s

Kim D 2007 'An East Asian Currency Union?, Singapore Economic Review Conference 2007, Singapore, 4th August 2007

2006

Conference Proceeding/s

Kim D 2006 'An Asian currency union? Some VAR evidence on the nature of macroeconomic shocks in East Asia', 35th Australian Conference of Economists, Perth, WA, Australia, 1st January 2006-31st December 2006

2005

Internal Working Paper/s

Sheen JRalph and Kim D 2005 'Consumption Risk-sharing within Australia and with New Zealand', Sydney University, School of Economics and Political Science

2004

Conference Proceeding/s

Kim D and Sheen JRalph 2004 'Risk-sharing within Australia and with New Zealand', 33rd Conference of Economists, 2004, University of Sydney, Australia, 30th September 2004

2003

Book Section/s

Kim D 2003 'Interpreting Some Empirical Facts of Business Cycles and Stock Returns in Korea' in The Korean Economy at the Cross Roads, Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia, ed. M Tcha and C Suh, Routledge Curzon, London, pp. 277-290

Journal Article/s

Kim D 2003 'Did the Current Account Matter? The Case of Korea', The Journal of the Korean Economy, vol.4:2 Link

Kim D and Seo J 2003 'Does FDI Inflow Crowd Out Domestic Investment in Korea?', Journal of Economic Studies, vol.30:6, pp. 605-622

2002

Journal Article/s

Kim D, Seo J and Kang J 2002 'Intra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment and Intra-Industry Trade in Korea', Pacific Economic Papers, vol.329, pp. 1-21

Conference Proceeding/s

Kim D 2002 'Can Sunspots Explain the Asian Financial Crisis?', Korea and the World Economy, Seoul, Korea, (South) Republic of, 22nd July 2002

1999

Conference Proceeding/s

Kim D 1999 'International business cycles in South East Asia and Japan : An empirical investigation', Econometric Society Australasian Meeting (ESAM) 1999, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 1st January 1999-31st December 1999

1998

Internal Working Paper/s

Kim D 1998 'The Term Structure of Interest Rates in a simple Stochastic Growth model: Evidence for Australia', Department of Economics, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia