Research Bio

Shawn Kim is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, and a Faculty Affiliate of the Haas Sustainable & Impact Finance Initiative. His research interests are in corporate ESG (environmental, social, and governance) disclosures, sustainability, and corporate governance. In particular, his work investigates the accountability and credibility of climate commitments, and how firms respond to regulatory and investor pressure related to ESG through voluntary disclosure.

Professor Kim’s research has been published in Nature Climate Change and has been recognized with the Best Paper Award for Climate Finance from the Global Research Alliance for Sustainable Finance and Investment (GRASFI). His studies have been featured by Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge and the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance.

Kim teaches managerial accounting at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Kim holds a Ph.D. in Accounting and a B.Sc. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Research Expertise and Interest

determinants and consequences of voluntary disclosure, corporate governance, insider trading, accounting information and capital markets, capital markets, incentives, corporate social responsibility, sustainability, climate change