Primary Fields of Interest

Industrial Organization

Applied Microeconomic Theory

Dynamic/Repeated Game

Education

Ph.D., Economics, Boston University, Boston, MA, January 2003.

Dissertation Title: “Credence Goods, Hidden Preferences and Altruism”

Committee Chair: Ching-to Albert Ma

M.Phil., Economics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1996

B.Soc. Sci., Economics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1994

Academic and Teaching Experience

Assistant Professor, July 2003 – present, Management and Strategy Department, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Teaching: Strategy and Organization (MBA)

Assistant Professor, Economics Department, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong. July 2002 - June 2003

Teaching: Managerial Microeconomics, Industrial Organization

Instructor (during Ph.D. study), Summer 1999, Spring 2000 - Fall 2001, Boston University

Teaching: Intermediate Macroeconomics; Intermediate Microeconomics; Statistics; International Trade; Money and Banking System

Other Professional Activity

Associate Editor, The B.E. Journals of Theoretical Economics, 2006-

Associate Editor, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2009-

Referee Experience

Hong Kong Research Grants Council, Israel Science Foundation, National Science Foundation.

American Economic Review, B.E. Journals of Theoretical Economics, B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Economic Inquiry, Economic Journal, Economic Theory, European Economic Review, Journal of Health Economics, International Economic Review, International Journal of Game Theory, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Journal of European Economic Association, Journal of Industrial Economics, Management Science, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Population Economics, RAND Journal of Economics.

Published/Accepted Papers

1. “The Identification of Unobservable Independent and Spousal Leisure”, (with Junsen Zhang), Journal of Political Economy 109 (1), February 2001, 191-202.

2. “When do Experts Cheat and Whom do They Target?”, RAND Journal of Economics, 36 (1), Spring 2005, 113-130.

3. “Compensation for Quality Difference in a Search Model of Money” (with Balázs Szentes), International Economic Review, 46 (3), August 2005, 957-971.

4. “On the Optimal Degree of Cooperation in the Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma with Side Payments” (with Jay Surti), Games and Economic Behavior, September 2009, 67 (1), 277–291.

5. “Private Information of Nonpaternalistic Altruism: Exaggeration of Generosity and Reciprocal Behavior”, B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics (Advances), 9(1), 2009, Article 1.

Working Papers by Topics

Tacit Collusion

6. “Long-lived Consumers, Intertemporal Bundling and Tacit Collusion”, (with Jim Dana), February 2009.

7. “When Does Aftermarket Monopolization Soften Foremarket Competition”, January 2009. (Previously circulated under different titles), R&R at RAND Journal of Economics.

8. “Product Quality, Reputation, and Market Structure” (with Jim Dana), September 2008, R&R at International Economic Review.

9. “Using Coupons to Intertemporally Price Discriminate and Tacitly Collude”, (with Qihong Liu), June 2009, R&R at Journal of Economics and Management Strategy.

Dynamic/Repeated Games & Relational Contracts

10. “Wait and See” (with Peter Eso), November 2008.

11. “Relational Contract, Limited Liability, and Employment Dynamics” (with Jin Li).

12. “The Use of Information in Relational Contract” (with Jin Li).

13. “A Theory of Player Turnover in Repeated Games” (with Jin Li).

Other Topics: Auction Theory & Experimental Economics

14. “Bidding in a Possibly Common-Value Auction”, (with Daniel F. Garrett), August 2009, Revised and Resubmitted to Games and Economic Behavior.

15. “Guilt Driven Reciprocity in a Psychological Signaling Game”, (with Chen-Ying Huang and Theo Offerman), December 2007

Work IN Progress

“Relational Contracts and Replaceability” (with Jin Li and Peter Schnabl)

“Private Monitoring and CEO Turnover” (with Jin Li and Niko Matouschek)

Conference Presentations

International Industrial Organization Conference, Boston, 2006

Midwest Economic Theory Conference, East Lansing, Spring 2006

Canadian Economic Theory Conference, Toronto, 2006

Far Eastern Meeting of the Econometric Society, Beijing, 2006

Summer Workshop on Industrial Organization and Management Strategy, Beijing, 2006

Econometric Society European Meeting, Vienna, 2006

Midwest Economic Theory Conference, Purdue, Fall 2006

North American Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society, Chicago, 2007

Midwest Economic Theory Conference, Minnesota, Spring 2007

Canadian Economic Theory Conference, Montreal, 2007

International Industrial Organization Conference, Savannah, 2007

The 18th Stony Brook Game Theory Festival of the Game Theory Society, 2007

Far Eastern Meeting of the Econometric Society, Taipei, 2007

Summer Workshop on Industrial Organization and Management Strategy, Shanghai, 2007

Midwest Economic Theory Conference, Urbana-Champaign, Spring 2008

International Industrial Organization Conference, Washington DC, 2008

Canadian Economic Theory Conference, Vancouver, 2008

Summer Workshop on Industrial Organization and Management Strategy, Singapore, 2008

Far Eastern Meeting of the Econometric Society, Singapore, 2008

Midwest Economic Theory Conference, Columbus, Fall 2008

Hong Kong Economic Association Biennial Meeting, Chengdu, 2008

International Industrial Organization Conference, Boston, 2009

North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, Boston, 2009

Seminars

2001-2002: Chinese U of Hong Kong, U of Hong Kong, Hong Kong U of Science and Technology

2002-2003: UC-Berkeley (Haas), UC-Davis, U of Chicago, U of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, U of Michigan, Michigan State U, NYU (Stern), Northwestern U (Kellogg), U of Southern Cal., U of Wisconsin-Madison

2003-2004: Academia Sinica, U of Hong Kong, U of Iowa

2004-2005: Queen’s U, U of Toronto

2005-2006: City U of Hong Kong

2006-2007: DePaul U, Peking U, U of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, U of Oklahoma

2007-2008: U of Arizona, UBC (Sauder), Drexel U, U of Hong Kong, Department of Justice, Hong Kong U of Science and Technology, SMU

2008-2009: USC (Marshall), Chinese U of Hong Kong

2009-2010 (Scheduled): UCL, U of Hong Kong, McGill

Citizenship: Chinese (Hong Kong SAR).

Languages: Fluent in English, Cantonese and Mandarin.