Sung-Ha Hwang

Education

• University of Massachusetts, Amherst Ph.D., Mathematics 2007-2011 Sept
• University of Massachusetts, Amherst Ph.D., Economics 2003-2009 May
• Seoul National University, Korea M.A., Economics 1999-2001
• Seoul National University, Korea B.A., Asian History 1999

Career

• Associate Professor, Sogang University (2015.9-2016.12)
• Assistant Professor, Sogang University (2011.9-2015.8)

Selected publications:

• Conventional contracts, intentional behavior and logit choice:Equality without symmetry, Games and Economic Behavior, with Wooyoung Lim, Philip Neary, and Jonathan Netwon, 2018, Vol.110, pp.273-294
• The Evolution of Unequal Linguistic Conventions, with Suresh Naidu and Samuel Bowles, 2017, American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 107, pp.572-577
• Conspicuous Consumption, Social Status Seeking, and Income Inequality, 2016, with Jungmin Lee, Oxford Economic Papers, 69, pp. 870-896
• Payoff dependent dynamics and coordination games, with Jonathan Newton, 2016, Economic Theory, 64. pp.589-604
• Deterministic Equations for Stochastic Spatial Evolutionary Games, with Markos Katsoulakis and Luc Rey-Bellet, 2013, Theoretical Economics, 8, 829-874
• Is Altruism Bad for Cooperation?, with Samuel Bowles, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 83, pp 330-341, 2012.
• Technology of Military Conflict, Military Spending, and War, Journal of Public Economics, 96, pp 226-236, 2012.
• Strong Reciprocity and Team Production: Theory and Evidence, With Jeffery Carpenter, Samuel Bowles, and Herbert Gintis, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 71, 2, pp.221-232, 2009
• Social Preferences and Public Economics: Mechanism Design when Social Preferences Depend on Incentives, With Samuel Bowles, Journal of Public Economics, 92, 8-9, pp 1811-1820, 2008

Research Areas

• Microeconomics
• Behavioral Economics
• Public Economics
• Evolutionary Game Theory