Prof. In Song Kim

Professor Kim's research interests include International Political Economy, Formal and Quantitative Methodology. His dissertation examines firm-level political incentives to lobby for trade liberalization (Winner of the 2015 Mancur Olson Award for the Best Dissertation in political economy in the previous two years). An article version of this research received the 2018 Michael Wallerstein Award for the best published article in political economy in the previous year.

Kim is also interested in “Big Data” analysis of international trade. He is developing methods for dimension reduction and visualization to investigate how the structure of international trade and trade politics around the globe has evolved over time. Kim maintains two databases for computational social science research: LobbyView and TradeLab. Professor Kim's work has appeared and forthcoming in various academic journals, including American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Annual Review of Political Science, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Political Analysis, and The Journal of Politics.