Seula Kim is a sixth-year Ph.D. student and a job market candidate in Economics at the University of Maryland. She is also a Federal Statistical Research Data Center (FSRDC) researcher with Special Sworn Status (SSS).
Seula has research interests in the fields of macroeconomics, firm dynamics, economic growth/innovation, labor, and entrepreneurship. She primarily studies the determinants of young firm dynamics and economic growth by building a structural general equilibrium model of heterogeneous firms and utilizing micro-level data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
In particular, Seula's job market paper investigates how uncertain job prospects at young firms affect their worker pay and employment growth and quantifies the macroeconomic implications of this channel for overall young firm activity and aggregate productivity. In the paper, she finds the cross-sectional and aggregate implications of workers' uncertain job prospects about young firms by developing a structural model with directed search and Bayesian learning about firms, and confirms the model predictions with micro-level administrative data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Please find her CV and personal website for more information.
Areas of Interest
- Macroeconomics, Firm Dynamics, Innovation, Economic Growth, Entrepreneurship
Degrees
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Degree TypeB.A.Degree DetailsEconomics, Seoul National University
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Degree TypeM.A.Degree DetailsEconomics, Seoul National University
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Degree TypeM.A.Degree DetailsEconomics, University of Maryland
Research
- "Workers' Job Prospects and Young Firm Dynamics" (Job Market Paper)
- "Competition, Firm Innovation, and Growth under Imperfect Technology Spillovers" (with Karam Jo)
- "Improving Patent Assignee-Firm Bridge with Web Search Results" (with Yuheng Ding and Karam Jo), CES WP No.22-31.
- "Increasing Knowledge Complexity and Business Dynamism" (with Serguey Braguinsky, Joonkyu Choi, Yuheng Ding, and Karam Jo)
- "Product Switching and Young Firm Dynamics over the Business Cycle" (with Karam Jo)
- "Cyclical Dynamics of Young Firms through the lens of Worker Job Prospects", work in progress
- "Decomposing Real Sales: How Official Statistics Can and Do Falter" (with John Haltiwanger, David Johnson, and Michael A. Navarrete), work in progress
- “Sectoral Heterogeneity in Nominal Rigidities in Korea: Implications for Monetary Policy” (with Jae Won Lee), Korean Economic Review Volume 36, Number 1, Winter 2020, 59-99. (Predoctoral Research)
