Youngho (Young) Kim

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Environmental Economics | University of Oxford

I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Environmental Economics at the Department of Economics and the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery at the University of Oxford.  Following this, in August 2025, I will join the Department of Food and Resource Economics at the University of Florida as an Assistant Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics.

Research Fields

Applied Microeconomics, Environmental & Resource Economics, Agricultural Economics, Climate Change

Research Overview

My research focuses on the design and evaluation of economic policies to address market failures in the provision of environmental services, with an emphasis on payment for ecosystem services programs, nature-based climate solutions, and emissions trading markets.

My recent research examines: (i) the cost-effectiveness of payment for ecosystem services programs in mitigating flood damage, (ii) the optimal structure of payments and penalties to enhance the performance of environmental services programs, and (iii) the interactions between land conservation subsidies and emissions trading markets for afforestation and pollution reduction.

Education