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Bong Hwan Kim
Curriculum Vitae
Email: kimbong@wustl.edu

Bong Hwan Kim

Accounting
Ph.D. Accounting 2010 (expected), Washington University in St. Louis
Masters of Business Administration 2000, University of Michigan
Bachelors of Economics 1992, Seoul National University
Research interests:
Empirical Financial Accounting (Capital Market)
Papers:
  • "Conditional Accounting Conservatism and Future Negative Surprises: An Empirical Investigation," Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, forthcoming, Mikhail Pevzner
  • "Post-Borrowing Conservatism and Debt-Covenant Slack," (Job Market Paper)
  • "Can Firms Adjust Their 'Opaqueness' to Lenders? Evidence from Foreign Bank Entry into India," National Bureau of Economic Research 2009 Corporate Finance Meeting Paper, American Financial Association 2010 Atlanta Annual Meeting Paper (1st round review at The Review of Financial Studies), Xiumin Martin and Todd Gormley
  • "Asymmetric Timeliness and Delayed Recognition of Bad News"
  • "The Costs of Debt Contracts and the Repeated Use of Debt Covenants"
Academic/professional activities:
Chartered Financial Analyst (inactive) - CFA Institute, Since 2004
Teaching Asssistant, Financial Statement Analysis (MBA) - Prof. Frankel, Fall 2007-2009
Teaching Asssistant, Financial Accounting (Executive MBA) - Prof. King, Summer 2007
Teaching Asssistant, Performance without compromise (MBA) - Prof. Thakor, Spring 2008
Other Professional Experience:
Director, International Financial Hub Division, Seoul Metropolitan Government, Korea (2006 - 2006)
Financial Operations & Planning Manager, Dow Chemical, Korea (2002 - 2005)
Controller, Asia Acetyls (Joint Venture w/ Dow, BP & Samsung), Korea (2002 - 2005)
Credit Manager, The Dow Chemical Company, Michigan (2000 - 2001)
Economist, Ministry of Agriculture & Forestry, Korea (1993 - 1998)
Awards/honors:
Hubert C. Moog Scholar, Washington University in St. Louis, 2007-2008
Doctoral Fellowship of Washington University in St. Louis, 2006-2010
Successful Candidate of Senior Government Officer Entrance Exam, 1992
College of Business Alumni Association Scholarship, 1990-1991
Student Representative of Korea to visit China, 1989
College of Social Science Scholarship, 1988-1989
Personal interests:
Traveling, Skiing