Dr. Hugh Sanghyun KIM
Finance

Research Assistant Professor
3917 1081
hughkim@hku.hk
KK 928


Academic & Professional Qualification
Ph.D., The University of Texas at Dallas
M.A., Columbia University
Biography
Dr. Sanghyun (Hugh) Kim joined The University of Hong Kong (HKU) as Research Assistant Professor of Finance in 2021 upon receiving his Ph.D. in Finance from The University of Texas at Dallas. Prior to that, he received his M.A. in Statistics from Columbia University.
Research Interest
Mutual Funds and Institutional Investors
Liquidity and Trading Costs
Selected Publications
“Do Mutual Funds Manipulate Star Ratings? Evidence from Portfolio Pumping”
“Institutional Brokerage Networks: Facilitating Liquidity Provision” (with Munhee Han and Vikram Nanda)
“Splitting and Shuffling: Institutional Trading Motives and Order Submissions across Brokers” (with Munhee Han)
Awards and Honours
The WFA PhD Candidate Award for Outstanding Research, Western Finance Association, 2021
The Best Paper Award in Investments (Semifinalist), Financial Management Association, 2020
The Best Paper Award, New Zealand Finance Meeting, 2019
The Best Paper Award in Investments (Semifinalist), Financial Management Association, 2019
The Outstanding Paper Award in Investments, Eastern Finance Association, 2019