Rate My Professor David Kim

Associate Professor David Kim serves in the School of Economics at the University of Sydney, within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. He obtained his Master of Commerce with Honours (MCom Hons) and PhD from the University of New South Wales, completing the doctorate in May 2003. Kim's academic interests center on international macroeconomics and applied macroeconometrics. His research addresses key economic dynamics, including business cycle synchronization across East Asian economies, the effectiveness of monetary policy in China using vector autoregression evidence, consumption risk-sharing mechanisms between Australia and New Zealand, drivers of labor share variations in South Korea at a regional level, influences of Special Drawing Rights on RMB currency swap agreements, country spread effects from foreign interest rates on Korean macroeconomic fluctuations, and interactions between regional unemployment, self-employment, and minimum wages.

David Kim has produced a body of work reflected in multiple peer-reviewed publications and working papers. Prominent examples are 'Consumption Risk-sharing within Australia and with New Zealand' (2007, co-authored with Jeffrey Sheen), 'Is China's Monetary Policy Effective? Evaluating the VAR Evidence' (2014, with Jiadan Jiang), 'What drives the labor share of income in South Korea? A regional analysis' (2020, with Woo-Yung Kim), 'The SDR and influences on the currency swap agreements for RMB' (2021, with Hyeon-seung Huh), 'Dynamic Interactions between Regional Unemployment, Self-employment and Minimum Wage' (2025, with Woo-Yung Kim), and 'A Factor-Augmented Vector Autoregression Analysis of Business Cycle Co-movements in East Asia' (with Hyeon-seung Huh, Won Joong Kim). Additional contributions include analyses of monetary policy shocks in sign-restricted SVAR models and the role of commodity exports in small open economies like Korea. His Google Scholar profile records 1103 citations, an h-index of 11, and an i10-index of 11. Kim contributes to teaching efforts, such as ECOS2025 East Asian Economies, and participates in the school's research on global perspectives in economic policy. He maintains an active research presence through collaborations with institutions like Yonsei University.