Olivia S.

Kim Version: September 2022

Contact National Bureau of Economic Research Email: okim@hbs.edu

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Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617-868-455

Academic National Bureau of Economic Research

Employment Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Economics of an Aging Workforce 2022 - 2023

Harvard Business School

Visiting Post-Doctoral Fellow 2022 - 2023
Assistant Professor, Entrepreneurial Management 2023 -

Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ph.D., Financial Economics 2022
: Dissertation: Essays on Household Finance and Small Business Credit
: Committee: Jonathan Parker, Antoinette Schoar, Josh Angrist, Frank Schilbach
S.M., Management Research 2020

Smith College
B.A., Major Economics; Minor Spanish 2011

Other JP Morgan Chase Institute

Employment Academic Fellow 2017 - Present
and Positions
MIT Sloan School of Management
Graduate Research Assistant for 2017 - 2019
Jonathan Parker and Antoinette Schoar

School Effectiveness Inequality Initiative

Pre-Doctoral Research Assistant for 2014 - 2016
Josh Angrist, David Autor, Amanda Pallais

Federal Reserve Board of Governors

Research Assistant, Global Capital Markets 2011 - 2014

UBS Financial Services

Analyst Intern, Wealth Management 2009

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Research Household Finance, Corporate Finance, Entrepreneurship, Financial Institutions
Interests

Publications "Loan Guarantees and Credit Supply" (with Natalie Cox and Constantine Yannelis)
Journal of Financial Economics, 139 (3), pp. 872-894, March 2021

"Does Political Uncertainty Increase External Financing Costs? Measuring the Electoral
Premium in Syndicated Lending"
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 54 (5), pp. 2141-2178, October 2019

Working Papers "Credit and the Family: The Economic Consequences of Closing the Credit Gap of US
Couples" (Job Market Paper)

"Revenue Collapses and the Consumption of Small Business Owners in the Early Stages of
the COVID-19 Pandemic" (with Jonathan Parker and Antoinette Schoar)

"The Economic Impact of Education Spending: Evidence from Self-Employed Households"

Awards and NBER Post-Doctoral Fellowship 2022

Grants NBER Household Finance Small Grant Award 2020
Bennett W. Golub (1978) Graduate Fellowship 2019 - 2022
Mark Kritzman and Elizabeth Gorman Research Fund 2019
Kauffman Foundation Knowledge Challenge 2017 - 2019
MIT Sloan Graduate Fellowship 2016 - 2017
First Group Scholar, Smith College 2010

Teaching MIT Sloan 15.453: Finance Research Practicum 2020

Experience Master of Finance core, Rating: 6.5 out of 7
Smith College ECO 253: Intermediate Macroeconomics 2010

Conferences 2021-22 American Economic Association\ast , Boston College Carroll, Chicago Household Finance
and Seminars Conference, Columbia Business School, Duke Fuqua, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia,
Georgia Institute of Technology Scheller, Harvard Business School (Entrepreneurial Management
and Finance), Imperial College London, Johns Hopkins Carey, Korea University Business
School, London School of Economics, SITE Conference on Gender, University of Minnesota
Carlson, University of Washington Foster, University of Rochester Simon, WUSTL Olin
2020 Harvard Business School Entrepreneurial Management\ast
2019 FDIC/JFSR Bank Research Conference, NY Fed/NYU Stern Conference on Financial
Intermediation\ast , American Economic Association\ast

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 2014 Society for Financial Studies Cavalcade
: * denotes coauthor presentation (selected)

Professional Referee
Service Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis

Discussant
Altavilla, Ellul, Pagano, Polo, Vlassopoulos "Loan Guarantees, Bank Lending and Credit
Risk Reallocation", Western Finance Association, 2022
D'Acunto, Hoang, Paloviita, Weber "Human Frictions in the Transmission of Economic
Policy", Western Finance Association, 2022

Personal Citizenship: United States

Programming: PySpark, R, Scala, AWS, Apache Hive, STATA, SAS