CV

NAME: Zhijun Chen

CURRENT POSITION: Professor

Institute : Department of Economics, Monash University

Contact Email: zhijun.chen@monash.edu

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

09/2004--06/2006, Ph.D. of Economics, Toulouse School of Economics, Toulouse. University of Social Science. Supervisor: Professor Patrick Rey (with Distinguished and Honoured Thesis).

09/1999--12/2002, Ph.D. of Management Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Wuhan University. Supervisor: Professor Heng-fu Zou (with Distinguished Thesis).

09/1991--04/1995, Master's Degree of Engineering, Navy Academy of Engineering, Wuhan.

09/1987--07/1991, Bachelor's Degree of Engineering, Navy Academy of Engineering, Wuhan.

PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS:

11/2010--11/2015, Senior Lecturer, University of Auckland

06/2007--06/2010, Post-doctor Research Fellow in Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia.

09/2006--06/2007, Associate Professor in School of Economics, Zhejiang University.

07/2004--08/2006, Part-time Associate Professor in School of Economics, Zhejiang University.

07/2004--09/2003, Associate Professor in School of Economics, Zhejiang University.

09/2002--08/2003, Assistant Professor in Business School, Wuhan University.

04/1995--08/1999, Assistant Researcher in Navy Academy of Engineering, Wuhan.

SIGNIFICANT DISTINCTIONS / AWARDS:

Best paper award (for "Loss Leading as an Exploitative Practice" with Patrick Rey), Association of Competition Economics, 12/2013

Research Excellence Award, Business School, University of Auckland, 08/2013

Distinguished and honoured Thesis, 06/2006, Toulouse University of Social Science.

Distinguished Thesis, 12/2002, Wuhan University.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES / SERVICE / OTHER ACTIVITIES:

Referee for the American Economics Review, Journal of Political Economy, the Rand Journal of Economics, the Journal of Economic and Management Strategies, the Journal of Industrial Economics, International Journal of Industrial Organization, and the Southern Economic Journal.

RESEARCH SPECIALITIES

Summary Statement:

Industrial Organization, Competition Policy, and Applied Microeconomics.

Research Publications:

"Loss Leading as an Exploitative Practice", (2012), American Economic Review, Vol 102: 3462-3482, (with Patrick Rey).

"On the Design of Leniency Programs", (2013), Journal of Law and Economics, Vol 56:917-957, (with Patrick Rey).

"Naked Exclusion with Minimum-Share Requirements", (2014), Rand Journal of Economics, Vol 45: 64-91, (with Greg Shaffer).

“Collusion and Biased Tournaments”, (2016), European Economic Review, Vol 85: 127-143.

"Market-Share Contracts, Exclusive Dealing, and the Integer Problem" (2019), American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Vol 11(1): 208-42, (with Greg Shaffer).

"Competitive Cross-Subsidization" (2019), (with Patrick Rey), Rand Journal of Economics, Vol 50:645-665.

“Competitive Personalized Pricing”, Management Science, 2020, Vol 66: 4003-4023, (with Chongwoo Choe and Noriaki Matsushima)

“Data-Driven Mergers and Personalization”, Rand Journal of Economics, forthcoming, (with Chongwoo Choe, Jiajia Cong, and Noriaki Matsushima).

Working papers:

“A Theory of Conglomerate Mergers” (2021), (with Patrick Rey).

"Price Squeezes as an Exploitative Abuse" (2021).

Research Grants / Funding:

ARC Discovery Grant, "Big Data and Competition Policy", Funds: $300,000 (with Chongwoo Choe and Chengsi Wang)

Marie-Curie Intra-Europe Fellowship (06/2010): “Retail Competition and Retailer Market Power”, Funds: 196,000 Euros.

National Social Science Foundation of China (01/2008): "Optimal Design of Leniency Program with Application to Chinese Anti-monopoly Law". Funds: RMB 80,000.

Presentations in Conferences and Seminars:

University of Mannheim, (10/2016): "Are Market-Share Contracts a Poor Man's Exclusive Dealing?"

Toulouse School of Economics, (10/2016): "Are Market-Share Contracts a Poor Man's Exclusive Dealing?"

Centre for Research of Economics and Statistics (CREST), Paris, (10/2016): "Are Market-Share Contracts a Poor Man's Exclusive Dealing?"

Economics Department Seminar, Australia National University, (10/2016): "Vertical Integration and Rent-Extraction"

Economics Department Seminar, Deakin University, (05/2016): "Vertical Integration and Rent-Extraction"

Economics Department Seminar, Victoria University of Wellington (09/2015): "Competitive Cross-Subsidization".

EARIE Conference (08/2014): "Collusion and Biased Tournaments".

IIOC Conference (05/2013): “Competitive Cross-subsidization”.

IIOC Conference (03/2012): “Loss Leading as an Exploitative Practice”.

EARIE Conference (09/2011): “Below-Cost Pricing in Multiproduct Competition”.

Industrial Organization Workshop in Oxford University (10/2009): "Loss leading as an Exploitative Practice".

Competition Policy Workshop in Toulouse School of Economics (10/2009): "Loss leading as an Exploitative Practice".

Seminar in the Amsterdam Centre for Law and Economics, University of Amsterdam (09/2009): "Loss leading as an Exploitative Practice".

Seminar in School of Economics, University of East Anglia (11/2008): "Collusion and Strategic Favouritism in Organizations".

European Association of Industrial Economics Conference in Toulouse (09/2008): "Cartel Organization and Antitrust Enforcement".

Royal Economic Society Conference in Warwick University (03/2008): "Cartel Organization and Antitrust Enforcement".

Competition Policy Seminar in the Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia (07/2007): "On the Design of Leniency Programs".

Microeconomic Theory Seminar in Hitotsubashi University, Japan (12/2006): "Optimal Design of Leniency Mechanisms".

Contract Theory Workshop in Osaka University, Japan (12/2006): "Fighting Collusion in Mechanism Design".

Competition Policy Workshop in Toulouse School of Economics (11/2006): "Optimal Design of Leniency Mechanism".

European Economic Association Conference in Vienna (08/2006): "Private Enforcement against Collusion in Mechanism Design".