Jason Kim

He is a Ph.D. candidate in Accounting at the MIT Sloan School of Management and is on the 2026–2027 academic job market.

Jason Kim is a Ph.D. candidate in Accounting at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and he is on the 2026–2027 academic job market.

His research interests lie in auditing, regulation, and the organizational design of accounting work. He is particularly interested in how ownership structure and regulation shape audit quality and audit market competition. His other work studies the choices companies make in organizing their accounting functions, such as offshoring, and how these decisions affect financial reporting quality.

Prior to his studies at MIT, he worked as an auditor at KPMG Korea. He holds an M.S. in Accounting and a B.A. in Business Administration from Seoul National University, and is a licensed CPA (inactive) in South Korea.

You can find his CV here.