Research

Dissertation

Dissertation · In Progress

Earmarking People's Money: The (Non-)Financialization of National Pensions in the US, Canada, and South Korea

Kim, Joonsik · University of Toronto

Examines how business, labor, and the state contested principles of pension fund management in the late 1990s, producing three distinct investment patterns that persist today.

Publication

Peer-reviewed article · 2025

About the Patient Named Taiwan: The Rise of Doctors in Taiwanese Party Politics

Kim, Joonsik & Sida Liu · Journal of Contemporary Asia

Working Projects

R&R · Peer-reviewed journal

Earmarking Foreign Reserves: Constraining the Financialization of State Asset Management

Kim, Joonsik

Early Career Workshop Award — Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE)

Under review

The Weight of Credit: Relational Work in Savings Mobilization

Kim, Joonsik

The Boundary of the State: The Non-Financialization of U.S. Social Security

Kim, Joonsik

(manuscript available)