Jinhwan Kim

Jinhwan Kim is an Associate Professor of Accounting at Stanford Graduate School of Business. His research broadly examines the economics of innovation and intangible assets, with a particular focus on how information and institutions shape firms’ incentives to create, disclose, protect, and transfer knowledge. His work studies corporate disclosure, intellectual property and legal institutions, knowledge spillovers, and markets for innovation, as well as their implications for firms, investors, and the broader economy.

His research has appeared in the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, and Review of Financial Studies. His work has examined topics including the innovation consequences of patent disclosure and judicial efficiency, the role of corporate disclosure in patent and technology markets, strategic patent sales, disclosure spillovers, and the allocation of capital across public and private firms. His ongoing research extends these themes to intellectual property strategy, artificial intelligence, technology diffusion, environmental disclosure, and other settings in which information and institutions shape economic activity.

Professor Kim serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Accounting and Economics. His research has also been featured by Stanford Business and Columbia Law School’s Blue Sky Blog.

He joined Stanford GSB in 2019. He holds BS and MS degrees from Columbia University and a PhD from the MIT Sloan School of Management.