Michael Suk-Young Chwe
michael@chwe.net
www.chwe.net
Department of Political Science
University of California, Los Angeles
4289 Bunche Hall
Los Angeles, California 90095-1472
Education
Ph.D., Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1992
Dissertation: Farsighted Coalitional Stability
Dissertation committee: Roger Myerson (chair), Steve Matthews, Joel
Mokyr, Stan Reiter, Bob Weber
B.S., Economics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California,
1985
Academic experience
University of California, Los Angeles
Assistant Professor of Political Science, 2001-present
University of Utah
Associate Professor of Economics, 2000-2001
New York University
Assistant Professor of Politics and Economics, 1999-present
University of Chicago
Assistant Professor of Economics, 1992-1999
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Economics, 1991-1992
Book
Articles
Communication and Coordination
in Social Networks, Review of Economic Studies 67 (2000): 1-16.
Structure and Strategy in Collective Action,
American
Journal of Sociology 105 (1999): 128-156.
The Reeded Edge and the Phillips Curve:
Money Neutrality, Common Knowledge, and Subjective Beliefs, Journal
of Economic Theory 87 (1999): 49-71.
Taking Turns and Majority Rule, Guinier
and Condorcet, Minority Rights and Majority Welfare, American Political
Science Review 93 (1999): 85-97.
Culture, Circles, and Commercials: Publicity,
Common Knowledge, and Social Coordination,Rationality and Society
10 (1998) 47-75.
Farsighted Coalitional Stability, Journal
of Economic Theory 63 (1994) 299-325.
Why Were Workers Whipped? Pain in a Principal-Agent
Model, Economic Journal 100 (1990) 1109-1121.
The Discrete Bid First Price Auction,
Economics
Letters 31 (1989) 303-306.
Working papers
Game-Theoretic Identification,
manuscript, University of Utah.
Rationally Constructing
the Dimensions of Political Conflict, manuscript, New York University.
Reviews
Review of Social Mechanisms: An Analytical Approach to Social Theory,
edited by Peter Hedstrom and Richard Swedberg, Journal of Economic Literature
37
(1999): 668-669.
Review of If You're So Smart: The Narrative of Economic Expertise,
by Donald N. McCloskey, Journal of Economic Literature 30 (1992):
2135-2137.
Fellowships, grants, and awards
Structure and Strategy in Collective Action, National Science Foundation
grant SBR-9712277, September 1, 1997-August 31, 2000
Alfred P. Sloan Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 1989-1990
Papers presented at conferences and seminars
Rationally Constructing the Dimensions of the Political Sphere
Conference on Cognition, Emotion, and Rational Choice, UCLA, 2000
Culture, Circles, and Commercials: Publicity, Common Knowledge, and Social
Coordination
Cornell University, 1999, New York University, 1998, Rational Choice
and Beyond: The Future of Political Economy Conference, Lake Arrowhead,
UCLA, 1997, Social Interactions and Aggregate Economic Activity Workshop,
Santa Fe Institute, 1997, Midwest Faculty Seminar, University of Chicago,
1997, Applications of Economics Workshop, University of Chicago, 1997,
Center for the Study of Politics, History, and Culture, University of Chicago,
1996, Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics, 1995, Chicago Humanities
Institute, University of Chicago, 1995, Applications of Economics Workshop,
University of Chicago, 1995
Structure and Strategy in Collective Action: Communication and Coordination
in Social Networks
McGill University, 1999, Pennsylvania State University, 1999, University
of Western Ontario, 1999, Vanderbilt University, 1999, Cornell University,
1998, Workshop on Interactive Dynamics and Learning, State University of
New York, Stony Brook, 1998, NSF/NBER Decentralization Conference, University
of Minnesota, 1998, International Conference on Public Economic Theory,
University of Alabama, 1998, Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics,
1997, California Institute of Technology 1997, University of California,
Davis 1997, University of California, Irvine 1997, University of California,
Los Angeles 1997, University of California, San Diego 1997, University
of Iowa 1997, University of Minnesota 1997, Social Learning Workshop, Stony
Brook 1996, Social Interactions and Aggregate Economic Activity, Santa
Fe Institute, 1996, Economic Theory Workshop, University of Chicago 1996,
Social Organization of Competition Workshop, University of Chicago, 1996,
Johns Hopkins University, 1996, Rutgers University, 1996, University of
Illinois at Chicago, 1996, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana,
1996
Taking Turns and Majority Rule, Guinier and Condorcet, Minority Rights
and Majority Welfare
Georgetown University, 1999, University of California, Irvine, 1998,
University of California, San Diego 1998, Rutgers University, 1998, Midwest
Political Science Association Annual Meetings, Chicago, 1998, Economic
Theory Workshop, University of Chicago, 1996
The Reeded Edge and the Phillips Curve: Money Neutrality, Common Knowledge,
and Subjective Beliefs
Indiana University and Purdue University at Indianapolis 1996, NSF/NBER
Decentralization Conference, University of Illinois, 1995, Southern Methodist
University, 1995, Northwestern University Math Center Bag Lunch, 1995,
Money and Banking Workshop, University of Chicago, 1995
Strategic Reliability of Communication Networks
Economic Theory Workshop, University of Chicago, 1994
Farsighted Coalitional Stability
Summer Game Theory Conference, Northwestern University, 1992, University
of Chicago, 1992, Korea University, 1992, Ohio State University, 1992,
University of Pittsburgh, 1992, Rutgers University, 1992, Seoul National
University, 1992, University of Western Ontario 1992, International Conference
on Game Theory and Economics, State University of New York at Stony Brook,
1991, University of California, Davis, 1991, University of Minnesota, 1991
Why Were Workers Whipped? Pain in a Principal-Agent Model
Hallim University, Korea, 1992, California Institute of Technology,
1991, University of California, Los Angeles, 1991, University of Pennsylvania,
1991, Stanford University, 1991, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1991,
Cliometric Society Summer Conference, 1990, Central Economics and Mathematics
Institute, Moscow, 1989, Northwestern University, 1989
Graduate teaching responsibilities
Dissertation advisor to Dragan Filipovich, Eduardo Rodes, David Stockman
(Economics)
Dissertation committee member for Hao Li, Shih-hao Luo, Jim Miller,
Atsuomi Obayashi, Philippe Pennelle (Economics), Eugene Wolfe (Political
Science), Fang Deng (Sociology)
Organized Economic Theory Workshop, University of Chicago, 1996-1998
Organized Graduate Theory Bag Lunch, University of Chicago, 1993-1996
Professional responsibilities
Referee reports for American Economic Review, American Journal of
Sociology, American Political Science Review, Econometrica, Economic Journal,
Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal
of Economics and Management Strategy, Journal of Economic Behavior and
Organization, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Political Economy,
Management Science, Mathematical Social Sciences, Quarterly Journal
of Economics, Rationality and Society, Review of Economic Studies
Personal Information
Birthdate: December 23, 1965
Citizenship: USA
Current as of September 2000