Department of Economics

Professor Chang received his B.S. from National Taiwan University, holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His graduate-level courses include price theory sequence and mathematical economics (stochastic control theory and applications, economics of uncertainty). He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago, Center for Economic Studies (CES) of the University of Munich, Germany, and Economic Research Center (ERC) of Nagoya University, Japan. He is also a recipient of the 1986 Outstanding Young Faculty Award of Indiana University, a recipient of 2004 IU Trustees Teaching Award, and a Research Fellow of CESifo Research Network. Professor Chang’s primary research interest is in the field of economic dynamics under uncertainty. He has published papers in prestigious journals in economics and mathematics, including Econometrica, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Economic Theory, the Proceedings of American Mathematical Society, and the Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications. In 2004 he published a book, Stochastic Optimization in Continuous Time, with the Cambridge University Press.