<< Back to Faculty Noah Myung Associate Professor of Public Policy and Economics Education & Training PhD, California Institute of Technology MS, California Institute of Technology Diploma, US Army Intelligence Center BS, University of California, Los Angeles 434-243-3731 noah.myung@virginia.edu Garrett Hall L033 Curriculum Vitae (241.25 KB) Research Website Courses taught Modern Techniques in Finance Optimizations, Simulations, and Strategic Games Game Theory Applied Policy Project Research Methods and Data Analysis Areas of focus Economics Leadership National Security Noah Myung is an Associate Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the University of Virginia. He is an experimental and behavioral economist with research interests in game theory, organizational economics, and financial economics. His current research deals with equilibrium selection in coordination games as well as information sharing between competitors. In addition, his Department of Defense research investigates on improving efficiencies in retention, compensation, and assignments. As a market design problem for retention, he has designed various ways of combining non-monetary incentives with monetary compensation in a reverse auction format that reduces cost for the DoD while improving social welfare. As the former Director of the Center for Leadership Simulation and Gaming at the University of Virginia, he has led the center to develop a wide range of computer-based participatory simulations on timely topics ranging from a refugee crises to a global pandemic. He has taught various economics and finance courses with strong emphases on MBA, EMBA, and MPP curriculums. He also has designed and taught classes related to national security and resource strategy. After completing four years of Army ROTC during college, he was commissioned in the U.S. Army and served as a military intelligence officer and a psychological operations officer, then was honorably discharged. He also holds a graduate diploma from the US Army Intelligence Center. Academically, he received his Ph.D and MS in economics from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and BS from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he double majored in mathematics and economics with specialization in computing. He has previously held appointments at the Naval Postgraduate School, and University of California, Berkeley. Related Content Once bitten, twice shy: The negative spillover effect of seeing betrayal of trust. Research Our research demonstrates that people who had perceived a recent betrayal were significantly less likely to trust a new entity that shared nominal group membership with the previous trust transgressor. By systematically investigating whether, why, and to what extent betrayal spillover can subsequently contaminate trust development, we present a robust account of the downstream economic and behavioral consequences of observing others who have been betrayed by a similar entity, particularly in the context of charitable organizations. The Batten School and NASPAA Announce Global Winners of the 2020 Student Simulation Competition News Today, the Batten School and the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA) announced the winners of the 2020 NASPAA-Batten Student Simulation Competition—the largest student simulation competition in higher education. There were 64 teams competing at seven sites around the globe, devising and implementing public transport policies in order to create improved sustainability strategies for their virtual cities. Q&A: Batten Professor’s 2018 Global Pandemic Simulation Becomes All Too Real News Two years ago, Noah Myung and his team designed a global pandemic simulation competition for students at 15 universities that is eerily similar to what is happening now. Simulation Learning Takes Students Out of the Classroom and Into the Middle of Public Crises News Every year, hundreds of master’s candidates from member institutions of NASPAA — the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration — participate in the NASPAA-Batten Student Simulation Competition, co-hosted by Batten's Center for Leadership Simulation and Gaming, to see who can devise the best solutions to international crises. 585 Students Around the World Compete in Host Nations: A Refugee Simulation News On February 23, the third annual NASPPA-Batten Student Simulation Competition will take place, bringing together a record 585 graduate students from around the globe to tackle policy issues associated with forced migration through computer-based simulated gameplay. View All
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Simulation Learning Takes Students Out of the Classroom and Into the Middle of Public Crises News Every year, hundreds of master’s candidates from member institutions of NASPAA — the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration — participate in the NASPAA-Batten Student Simulation Competition, co-hosted by Batten's Center for Leadership Simulation and Gaming, to see who can devise the best solutions to international crises.
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