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Hyun Song Shin

Hyun Song Shin

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Economics and Finance
Switzerland
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Economics and Finance

D-Index
104
Citations
46641
World Ranking
83
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2009 - R. K. Cho Economics Prize, Yonsei University
  • 2004 - Fellows of the Econometric Society

Overview

Hyun Song Shin is affiliated with the Bank for International Settlements in Switzerland and has an extensive research portfolio primarily focused on economics, econometrics, and finance. Their work spans a variety of subfields, with significant contributions to finance, economics and econometrics, general economics, information systems, and strategy and management.

Their recent papers include studies on the economic impact of financial events and technological advances in monetary policy:

  • Emerging Market Economy Exchange Rates and Local Currency Bond Markets Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic (2021), published in SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Central Bank Digital Currencies: Motives, Economic Implications, and the Research Frontier (2022), published in Annual Review of Economics
  • Central bank digital currencies: motives, economic implications and the research frontier (2021), published in SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Leverage and Margin Spirals in Fixed Income Markets during the COVID-19 Crisis (2020), published in SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Regulating big techs in finance (2021), published in SSRN Electronic Journal

Hyun Song Shin has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, highlighting a network of scholarly cooperation in economics and finance research. Notable frequent co-authors include Jon Frost, Ilhyock Shim, Leonardo Gambacorta, Valentina Bruno, and Claudio Borio.

Their research has appeared predominantly in the SSRN Electronic Journal, with 25 publications, supplemented by publications in Economic Policy, the Annual Review of Economics, Review of Financial Studies, and AEA Papers and Proceedings.

Major topics of work addressed by Hyun Song Shin involve:

  • Global Financial Crisis and Policies
  • Banking stability, regulation, efficiency
  • Monetary Policy and Economic Impact
  • Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
  • FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance
  • Digital Platforms and Economics
  • Economic theories and models

Among their academic contributions is a book published by World Scientific, titled Macro-financial Stability Policy in a Globalised World: Lessons from International Experience (2022).

Hyun Song Shin has received recognition through awards such as the R. K. Cho Economics Prize from Yonsei University in 2009 and was named a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2004.

Best Publications

  • Liquidity and Leverage

    Tobias Adrian;Hyun Song Shin

  • Global Games: Theory and Applications

    Stephen Morris;Hyun Song Shin

  • Social Value of Public Information

    Stephen Morris;Hyun Song Shin

  • Unique Equilibrium in a Model of Self-Fulfilling Currency Attacks

    Stephen Morris;Hyun Song Shin

  • The fundamental principles of financial regulation

    Markus K. Brunnermeier;Andrew Crockett;Charles Goodhart;Avinash Persaud

  • Capital flows and the risk-taking channel of monetary policy

    Valentina Bruno;Hyun Song Shin

  • Liquidity risk and contagion

    Rodrigo Cifuentes;Gianluigi Ferrucci;Hyun Song Shin

  • Liquidity Risk and Contagion

    Rodrigo Cifuentes;Gianluigi Ferrucci;Hyun Song Shin

  • Financial Intermediaries and Monetary Economics

    Tobias Adrian;Hyun Song Shin

  • Cross-Border Banking and Global Liquidity

    Valentina Bruno;Hyun Song Shin

  • Money, liquidity, and monetary policy

    Tobias Adrian;Hyun Song Shin

  • Marking-to-Market: Panacea or Pandora's Box?

    Guillaume Plantin;Haresh Sapra;Hyun Song Shin

  • Coordination risk and the price of debt

    Stephen Morris;Hyun Song Shin

  • Beauty Contests and Iterated Expectations in Asset Markets

    Franklin Allen;Stephen E. Morris;Hyun Song Shin

  • Procyclical Leverage and Value-at-Risk

    Tobias Adrian;Hyun Song Shin

  • Financial innovation and risk sharing

    Franklin Allen;Franklin Allen;Douglas Gale;Douglas Gale

  • Reflections on Northern Rock: The Bank Run That Heralded the Global Financial Crisis

    Hyun Song Shin

  • Global Banking Glut and Loan Risk Premium

    Hyun Song Shin

  • An Academic Response to Basel II

    Con Keating;Hyun Song Shin;Charles Goodhart;Jon Danielsson

  • The Changing Nature of Financial Intermediation and the Financial Crisis of 2007–2009

    Tobias Adrian;Hyun Song Shin

  • Securitisation and Financial Stability

    Hyun Song Shin

  • Financial Intermediaries, Financial Stability and Monetary Policy *

    Tobias Adrian;Hyun Song Shin

  • Crisis Resolution and Bank Liquidity

    Viral V. Acharya;Hyun Song Shin;Tanju Yorulmazer

  • Rethinking Multiple Equilibria in Macroeconomic Modeling

    Stephen Morris;Hyun Song Shin

  • Which Financial Frictions? Parsing the Evidence from the Financial Crisis of 2007-9

    Tobias Adrian;Paolo Colla;Hyun Song Shin

Frequent Co-Authors

Tobias Adrian
Tobias Adrian International Monetary Fund
Anil K. Kashyap
Anil K. Kashyap University of Chicago
Frederic S. Mishkin
Frederic S. Mishkin Columbia University
Viral V. Acharya
Viral V. Acharya New York University
John H. Cochrane
John H. Cochrane Hoover Institution
Robert J. Shiller
Robert J. Shiller Yale University
David S. Scharfstein
David S. Scharfstein Harvard University
Kenneth R. French
Kenneth R. French Dartmouth College
Douglas W. Diamond
Douglas W. Diamond University of Chicago

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