Seoyoung Kim joined the finance department in Fall 2012 as an assistant professor, where she teaches financial management in the MBA program.
Professor Kim’s research interests include executive compensation, turnover, and performance evaluations as well as board composition/structure and the unintended byproducts of regulatory changes thereof. Her more recent work involves structured financial instruments, fixed-income pricing, and the optimal restructuring of distressed debt, and she has provided consulting expertise and litigation support with regard to the structuring, management, and liquidation of various special purpose vehicles issuing collateralized debt obligations and asset-backed securities. Her scholarship has been published in leading academic journals, including the Journal of Financial Economics and Financial Management, and she has been an invited speaker at government functions, financial institutions, and other universities, both domestic and abroad.
Prior to joining the Leavey School of Business, Professor Kim held a faculty appointment at Purdue University. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from Rice University and Ph.D. in Finance from Emory University.