Biography
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 1991-1999
Career
- KAIST Endowed Chair Professor (2021.3-2024.2)
Professor, KAIST (2022.3-)
Associate Professor, KAIST (2017.1-21.12)
Associate Professor, Sogang University (2015.9-2016.12)
Assistant Professor, Sogang University (2011.9-2015.8)
- Academic Services
Editor, Metroeconomica, 2022.1-
Advisory Board, Metroeconomica, 2021.1-2021.12
Coeditor, Korean Economic Review, 2018.3-
Publications & Research
Publications (patents, etc.)
- https://sites.google.com/site/sunghahome/
Selected publications:
Positive Feedback in Coordination Games: Stochastic Evolutionary Dynamics and the Logit Choice Rule, with Luc Rey-Bellet. Games and Economic Behavior, 2021, Vol. 126, pp.355-373
Strategic Decompositions of Normal Form Games: Potential Games and Zero-sum Games, with Luc Rey-Bellet. Games and Economic Behavior, 2020, Vol. 122, pp.370-390
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