Frances Xu Lee
Academic Position
Quinlan School of Business, Loyola University Chicago Chicago, IL
Associate Professor with tenure July 2020 --
Assistant Professor Aug, 2016 -- June 2020
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University Evanston, IL
Adjunct Lecturer of Managerial Economics and Decision Science Sep, 2014 -- June 2015
University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
Assistant Professor, School of Economics and Finance Aug, 2009 -- Aug, 2013
Education
Ph.D. in Managerial Economics and Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.
BBA. Chinese University of Hong Kong
Publications
Gaming a Selective Admission System (joint with Wing Suen), accepted at International Economic Review, 2023, 64(1), pp. 413-443. Online Appendix
A Potentially Known Confidential Settlement, forthcoming at Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Online Appendix
Information Validates the Prior: A Theorem on Bayesian Updating and Applications (joint with Navin Kartik and Wing Suen) American Economic Review: Insights. 2021, 3(2), pp.165-82. Online Appendix
Costly Rewards and Punishments, The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 2020, Vol 20, Issue 1.
Credibility of Crime Allegation (joint with Wing Suen) American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2020, 12(1):220-59.
Signaling by an Informed Service Provider (joint with Yuk-fai Fong) Supplementary Appendix, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2017, 00:1-14.
Investment in Concealable Information by Biased Experts (joint with Wing Suen and Navin Kartik), RAND Journal of Economics, Spring 2017, Volume 48, No. 1, 24-43.
The Optimal Extent of Discovery (joint with Dan Bernhardt), RAND Journal of Economics, Fall 2016, Vol. 47, No. 3, 573–607.
Information Acquisition in a War of Attrition (joint with Kyungmin (Teddy) Kim), 2014, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 6(2), 37–78.
Trial Incentives in Sequential Litigation (joint with Dan Bernhardt) 2014, American Law and Economics Review, 17(1), 214-244.
Trading between Agents for a Better Match, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Volume 31, Issue 5, Sep 2013, 501–515.
Optimal Best-Price Policy, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Volume 29, Issue 5, September 2011, 628-643
Working Papers
The "Reasonable Consumer" Standard for Misleading Labeling Claims
Information Acquisition and Liability for Unknowable Risk
Paid Testimony with a Chance of Perjury