Yong Kyun Kim
I am a Ph.D. Candidate of the Department of Political Science at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I will defend my dissertation, The Political Economy of Sovereign Debt: Domestic Politics, Strategic Choices, and Suboptimal Outcomes, May 2009.

Research

My research interests include comparative and international political economy and political methodology. Substantively, my research explores how domestic political institutions shape actors' incentives to act in cooperation with others at the international level. In particular, my research seeks to advance our understanding of how institutions mitigate or exacerbate such problems as the lack of credibility, incomplete information, and strategic uncertainty in relations to international creditors and investors. Methodologically, my research embraces the spirit of EITM (Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models) in the sense that I pursue both deductive rigor in deriving theoretical expectations and creativity in designing methods best suited to test the empirical implications against real-life data.

Teaching

My teaching interests cover International Relations, Comparative Politics, and Political Methodology. I have taught, as a discussion leader, three different courses in political science and, as an instructor with full responsibility, Contemporary Latin American Politics for two semesters.

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