Kevin Kim

Kevin currently serves as a Research Assistant for the Farm Income Enhancement Program, working under Dr. Ani Katchova. His current research topics include farmer financial distress, banking sector regulation, and agricultural lending. The topics are incorporated through the current research on recent agricultural banking sector consolidation ramifications and the determinants of agricultural bank consolidation. 

As a member of Farm Income Enhancement Program, Kevin also has contributed to multiple outreach reports, conferences, and research on farmer bankruptcy trends, delinquency rates, and agricultural lending institutions. His most recent paper, “Impact of the Basel III Bank Regulation on US Agricultural Lending,” was published in Agricultural Finance Review. Kim's job market paper is titled "Seasoned vs Non-seasoned Specialized Bank Acquisitions: Finding the Source of Diseconomies." 

Kevin also engaged in multiple teaching opportunities, as a teaching assistant and a guest lecturer, before serving as an instructor for Principles of Agribusiness Finance (AEDECON 3103) in Spring 2020. 

Advisor: Dr. Ani Katchova 

Website: 

https://sites.google.com/view/kevinnkim