About
About
My name is Alex Kim.
I research how stakeholders process information. Methodologically, I am particularly interested in applying frontier AI tools to questions in financial economics.
I'm a Ph.D. candidate in accounting at the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business. I received a master's degree in business administration with a concentration in accounting and a dual bachelor's degree in economics and business administration, Summa Cum Laude, from Seoul National University.
I passed the Korean CPA exam in 2018.
Contact: alex.kim@chicagobooth.edu
Research
Geopolitical Risk in Corporate Risk Networks
with Roope Keloharju, Jingoo Kwon, and David Park
Working Paper, October 2026 [PDF]
Industry-Level ESG Rating Disagreement
with Kyungmin Kim and Jongsub Lee
Working Paper, October 2026 [PDF]
Reasoning is Most Fragile When It Matters Most
with Sangwon Yoon
Working Paper, October 2026 [PDF]
Measurement with Stochastic LLMs
Working Paper, October 2026 [PDF]
Firm-Level Tax Audits: A Generative AI-Based Measurement
with Ga-Young Choi
Working Paper, July 2025 [PDF]
Learning Fundamentals from Text
with Maximilian Muhn, Valeri Nikolaev, and Yijing Zhang
Working Paper, November 2024 [PDF]
Vocal Delivery Quality in Earnings Conference Calls
with Bok Baik, David Kim, and Sangwon Yoon
Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2025 [Publisher] [PDF]
DEBATE: Devil's Advocate Based Assessment and Text Evaluation
with Keonwoo Kim and Sangwon Yoon
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2024 [Publisher]
Detecting Rumor Veracity with Only Textual Information by Double-Channel Structure
with Sangwon Yoon
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL Workshop), 2022 [Publisher]
Corporate Bankruptcy Prediction with Domain-Adapted BERT
with Sangwon Yoon
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP Workshop), 2021 [Publisher]
Persona Zoo (with Sangwon Yoon)
Teaching
Large Language Models, AI, and Accounting Research (Ph.D. Workshop)
A course on applying large language models and artificial intelligence in accounting research.
University of Oregon (OR, USA) (2024)
Chicago Booth Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence (IL, USA) (2024)
Korean American Accounting Professor Association (Zoom Webinars) (2024)
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (Seoul, South Korea) (2024)
Financial Accounting and Financial Statement Analysis (Practitioner Course)
A course on learning core accounting principles (IFRS) and analyzing financial ratios.
Samsung Electronics, Board of Directors (2019)
Chicago Booth
MBA Financial Accounting (2023 - 2024)
EMBA Financial Accounting (2023 - 2024)
Ph.D. Corporate Finance I (2024)
Seoul National University
Undergraduate Financial Accounting and Advanced Accounting (2017 - 2022)
MBA Financial Statement Analysis (2018 - 2022)