2022 Awards Recipients

We are pleased to announce the recipients of the annual awards for this year.

 

1. The Financial News-KAFA Eminent Scholar Award

Selection Criteria: The FN-KAFA Eminent Scholar Award is given to a KAFA member who has achieved outstanding scholarly accomplishment and research contribution in leading journals in finance and related fields.

Winner: Yong-cheol Kim, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

 

2. The D.K. Kim Distinguished Scholar Award

Selection Criteria: The recipient of the D.K. Kim Distinguished Scholar Award should be a KAFA life-time member who has made outstanding scholarly achievements in the finance and related fields, and at the same time has substantially contributed to or has a potential for significant contribution to the growth of KAFA.

Winner: Professor Kee-Hong Bae, York University

      Professor Jaewon Choi, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

 

3. The Shinhan Bank-KAFA Young Scholar Award

Selection Criteria: The SHB-KAFA Young Scholar Award is given to a KAFA member who has demonstrated exemplary scholarly performance through publications in leading journals in finance and related fields. Those KAFA members who earned his or her Ph.D. degree within seven years prior to the award date would be considered for the award.

Winner: Professor Irene Yi, University of Toronto

      Professor Albert Lee, Hanyang University

 

4. The Financial News & KAFA Top-Journal Paper Award

Winner: Professor Jung Hoon Lee, Vanderbilt University

      Professor Joonki Noh, Case Western Reserve

 

5. The Shinhan Bank & KAFA Best Paper Award

Selection Criteria: The SHB-KAFA Best Paper Award is given to a research paper in all areas of finance written by KAFA members, based on Google Scholar citations regardless of Journal names.

Winner: Professor Kiyoung Chang, University of South Florida

      Professor Woo Chan Kim, Korea University

 

6. Bong-Soo Lee Memorial Scholarship

Winner: Hyuksoon Lim, University of Arizona

      Joonsung Won, City University of New York

 

7. The Financial News & KAFA Doctoral Student Dissertation Awards:

Winner: Minmo Gahng, University of Florida

 

8. Shinhan Bank & KAFA Scholarship for Ph.D. Students

The following PhD students, who are presenting papers at the FMA conference, are selected for the Shinhan Bank Scholarship:

Byungwook Kim, Ohio State University

Jaemin Lee, Emory University

Joonsung Won, City University of New York

Donghyun Kang, Copenhagen Business School

Yun-Soo Kim, KAIST

Paul Youngwook Kim, KAIST

Saeyeon Oh, KAIST

Sangheum Cho, KAIST

J.H. John Kim, Temple University

Sebeom Oh, Temple University