Hwang, Sung-Ha
Regular biography
Hwang, Sung-Ha is a Professor at KAIST, College of Business, Department of Business Administration. His research focuses on Microeconomics, Behavioral Economics, Public Economics, and Evolutionary Game Theory. He serves as the Principal of the School of Management Engineering and Manageral Economics. Hwang holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a M.A. in Economics from Seoul National University. He has contributed to various academic journals, including Games and Economic Behavior and the American Economic Review. His work explores topics such as coordination games, social preferences, and evolutionary dynamics.
Scholar-generated biography
Sung-Ha Hwang is an economist at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) whose research focuses on Economics. His work explores social preferences, mechanism design, and public economics, with an emphasis on how social preferences influence incentives and decision-making. Hwang's research also examines topics such as military conflict, technology, and economic inequality, particularly through the lens of evolutionary game theory and behavioral economics. His publications include studies on reciprocity, team production, and the evolution of social conventions. Additionally, he investigates the impact of social distancing on epidemic dynamics and the role of institutions in shaping cultural and economic behavior.