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Myong-Hun Chang is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Cleveland State University. He studied Operations Research & Information Engineering as an undergraduate at Cornell University.  Upon graduating with a B.S. in 1984, he entered the graduate program in Economics at The Johns Hopkins University, earning a Ph.D. in 1988.  He joined the Department of Economics at Cleveland State University as an assistant professor in the fall of 1988, and remained as its full-time faculty until his retirement in 2024. His primary research interests are in industrial Organization, organization theory, and game-theoretic and computational modeling of social and behavioral dynamics. In addition to Cleveland State University, he has taught at The Johns Hopkins University and the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University as a visiting faculty.

Selected Publications:

• "Spatially Heterogeneous Vaccine Coverage and Externalities in a Computational Model of Epidemics," (with Troy Tassier), Computational Economics, 58 (2021), 27-55.
• "When Can We Expect a Corporate Leniency Program to Result in Fewer Cartels," (with Joseph E. Harrington, Jr.), Journal of Law and Economics, 58 (2015), 417-449.
• "Modeling the Birth and Death of Cartels with an Application to Evaluating Competition Policy," (with Joseph E. Harrington, Jr.), Journal of the European Economic Association, 7 (2009), 1400-1435.
• "Innovators, Imitators, and the Evolving Architecture of Problem-Solving Networks," (with Joseph E. Harrington, Jr.), Organization Science, 18 (2007), 648-666.
• "Discovery and Diffusion of Knowledge in an Endogenous Social Network," (with Joseph E. Harrington, Jr.), American Journal of Sociology, 110 (2005), 937-976.
• "Coevolution of Firms and Consumers and the Implications for Market Dominance," (with Joseph E. Harrington, Jr.), Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control, 29 (2005), 245-276.
• "Multi-Market Competition, Consumer Search, and the Organizational Structure of Multi-Unit Firms," (with Joseph E. Harrington, Jr.), Management Science, 49 (2003), 541-552.
• "Centralization vs. Decentralization in a Multi-Unit Organization: A Computational Model of a Retail Chain as a Multi-Agent Adaptive System," (with Joseph E. Harrington, Jr.), Management Science, 46 (2000), 1427-1440.
• "Product Switching Cost and Strategic Flexibility," Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 7 (1998), 461-488.
• "Flexible Manufacturing, Uncertain Consumer Tastes, and Strategic Entry Deterrence," Journal of Industrial Economics, XLI (1993), 77-90.
• "Inter-temporal Product Choice and Its Effects on Collusive Firm Behavior," International Economic Review, 33 (1992), 773-793.
• "The Effects of Product Differentiation on Collusive Pricing," International Journal of Industrial Organization, 9 (1991), 453-469.