Seong-Eun Ahn
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Seong-Eun Ahn is an economist, whose research fields include Game Theory and Monetary Policy. He has had many academic advisors for his doctoral disseration, including John Rust, Steven Slutsky, Ed Zabel, G.S. Maddala, William S. Neilson, and Leonardo Aurenheimer.

Biography

Seong-Eun Ahn was born in Daegu
Daegu
Daegu , also known as Taegu, and officially the Daegu Metropolitan City, is a city in South Korea, the fourth largest after Seoul, Busan, and Incheon, and the third largest metropolitan area in the country with over 2.5 million residents. The city is the capital and principal city of the...

, South Korea
South Korea
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 on March 21, 1959. He attended the University of Florida
University of Florida
The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...

 where he received his M.A.
Master of Arts (postgraduate)
A Master of Arts from the Latin Magister Artium, is a type of Master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The M.A. is usually contrasted with the M.S. or M.Sc. degrees...

 in economics, and also attended Texas A&M University
Texas A&M University
Texas A&M University is a coeducational public research university located in College Station, Texas . It is the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System. The sixth-largest university in the United States, A&M's enrollment for Fall 2011 was over 50,000 for the first time in school...

 and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After he earned his Ph.D. Candidacy at Texas A&M, Seong-Eun Ahn joined the faculty of Kyungil University in Daegu, Korea. He taught at Kyungil University from 1992–2007. In 1998, he was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

, where he was sponsored for the Honorary faculty-level position by Professor Eric Maskin
Eric Maskin
Eric Stark Maskin is an American economist and Nobel laureate recognized with Leonid Hurwicz and Roger Myerson "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory." He is the Albert O...

, a 2007 Noble Economics Prize Winner.

Seong-Eun Ahn has worked in diverse areas of economic theory, such as game theory
Game theory
Game theory is a mathematical method for analyzing calculated circumstances, such as in games, where a person’s success is based upon the choices of others...

, the economics of incentives, and monetary policy theory. His current research projects include repeated game theory with imperfect public information.

Seong-Eun Ahn has published a few books, including English 4 Tourism and he has written many columns, including "U.S. should stop rape of Kuweit"
in which he supported the Gulf War in 1990.

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