Yuk-fai Fong
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Management & Strategy Department Kellogg School of Management Leverone Hall, 6th Floor 2001 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208-2001 |
Tel.: 1 847-491-1908 Fax: 1 847-467-1777 E-mail:
y-fong@kellogg.northwestern.edu |
Industrial Organization, Dynamic/Repeated Game,
Applied Microeconomic Theory
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
Assistant Professor, July 2004 – present, Management and Strategy
Department, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Teaching: Strategy and Organization (MBA)
Visiting Scholar, January 2010 – present, Department of Economics, Hong
Kong University of Science and Technology
Teaching:
Managerial Microeconomics (MBA)
Donald P. Jacobs Scholar, July 2003 – June 2004, Management and
Strategy Department, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
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
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, American Economic Journal:
Microeconomics, B.E. Journals of Theoretical Economics, B.E. Journal of
Economic Analysis & Policy, Economic Inquiry, Economic Journal, Economic
Theory, European Economic Review, Games and Economic Behavior, 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 Economic, Review of Economic Studies.
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.
(One of two finalists, 2008 Arrow Prize for Junior
Economists)
6. “Bidding in a Possibly Common-Value Auction”, (with Daniel F. Garrett),
Forthcoming at Games and Economic
Behavior.
7. “Using
Coupons to Intertemporally Price Discriminate and
Tacitly Collude”, (with Qihong Liu), Forthcoming at Journal of Economics and Management Strategy.
8. “Product Quality, Reputation, and Market Structure” (with Jim Dana), Forthcoming at International Economic Review.
Tacit Collusion
9. “Long-lived Consumers, Intertemporal Bundling and Tacit Collusion”, (with Jim
Dana), February 2009, R&R at Journal
of Industrial Economics.
10. “When Does Aftermarket
Monopolization Soften Foremarket Competition”,
January 2009, R&R at RAND Journal of
Economics.
Dynamic/Repeated Games & Relational Contracts
11. “Wait and See” (with
Peter Eso).
12. “Relational
Contract, Limited Liability, and Employment Dynamics” (with Jin Li), R&R at
Review of Economic Studies.
13.
“The Use of Information in Relational Contract” (with Jin Li).
14. “A
Theory of Player Turnover in Repeated Games” (with Jin Li).
15. “Trading
of Bad Reputation and Endogenous Cost of Control” (with Pak Hung (Albert) Au
and Jin Li)
Experimental Economics
16. “Guilt Driven Reciprocity in
a Psychological Signaling Game”, (with Chen-Ying Huang and Theo Offerman), December 2007
Law and
Economcis
17. “The Puzzle of Attorney's Fee Structure: a Signaling Explanation” (with Frances Xu)
“Relational Contracts and Replaceability” (with Jin Li and Peter Schnabl)
MEMBER OF PHD DISSERTATION COMMITTEE
Frances
Xu (Corner Stone, now at University of Hong Kong)
Joaquin
Poblete (London School of Economics)
Pak
Au (Albert) Hung (In Progress)
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
CRES 5th Annual Foundation of Business Strategy Conference, May 2009 (Discussant)
North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, Boston, May 2009
CSIO-IDEI conference, Toulouse, June 2009 (Discussant w/ Paper presented by co-author Jin Li)
NBER Conference on Relational Contracts, November 2009 (Attendant w/ Paper presented by co-author Jin Li)
CRES 6th Annual Foundation of Business Strategy Conference, May 2010
International Industrial Organization Conference,
Vancouver, 2010
Econometric Society World Congress, Shanghai, 2010
Summer Workshop on Industrial Organization and
Management Strategy, Shanghai, 2010
Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory,
Singapore, 2010
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: UCL, Chinese U of
Hong Kong, U of Hong Kong, McGill
2010-2011: Boston U, U of
Miami, Michigan State U, NYU (Stern), Peking U (HSBC)
Languages: Fluent in English, Cantonese and Mandarin.