Contacts
Universitätsstraße 15 / F4,
8010 Graz, Austria
(+43) 67762400587
Personal Information
Marital Status: Single Work and Residence Permit: Austrian (EU)
Education
Ph.D. Economics, Indiana University, USA (2013 August)
M.A. Mathematics (Analysis, Probability, Topology), Indiana University, USA
M.A. Economics, Fudan University, China
B.A. Economics, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
Current Position
2017 – : Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Graz, Austria
2018.12 – 2019.3 : Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, Texas State University, USA
Past Positions
2014 – 2016: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Business School, Nanjing University, China
April – August 2016: Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, Indiana University, USA
February 2016: Visiting Scholar, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University, Japan
2004 – 2006: Researcher, Shanghai Pudong High-tech Industrial Economic Institute, Shanghai, China
Primary Research Interests
Contract and Mechanism Design, Industrial Organization, Applied Game Theory
Secondary Research Interests
Social and Economic Networks, R&D and Innovation, Public Economics, Development Economics, Chinese Economy, Environmental Economics, Applied Microeconometrics
Research Papers
Delegation Principle for Multi-agency Games under Ex Post Implementation, Journal of Dynamics and Games, 2018, vol. 5, no. 4
Monotonicity in Optimal Mechanisms in General Quasi-linear Environments with a Continuum of Types, Economic Theory Bulletin, 2018, S. 1-14.
Push or Pull? Performance-Pay, Incentives, and Information, minor (2nd round) revision at Rand Journal of Economics (with David Rietzke)
Simple Contracts under Observable and Hidden Actions, minor revision at Economic Theory (with Bo Chen and David Rietzke)
Valuing the Urban Hukou in China: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design in Housing Price, revision at Journal of Development Economics (with Shaobin Shi and Yugang Tang)
Delegated Project Search (with Xi Chen and Xuhu Wan)
Open Source and Competition Strategy under Network Externalities (with Bonwoo Koo and Yu Wang)
Government Intervention, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship (with Meng-Wei Chen, Zhenhua Wu, and Ningru Zhao)
Contracting in a Continuous-Time Model with Three-sided Moral Hazard and Cost Synergies (with Nian Yang and Jun Yang)
Intellectual Property Rights Protection and Imitation under Asymmetric Information (with Zonglai Kou and Yuchen Shao)
On the Equivalence of Bilateral and Collective Mechanism Design
Work in Progress
Mechanism Design with Noisy Signals among Agents (with Christoph Kuzmics and Jan-Henrik Steg)
Peer-review Mechanism Design (with Christoph Kuzmics and Jan-Henrik Steg)
Bilateral Trade, Intermediary, and Informational Opportunism (with David Martimort)
Cournot and Bertrand Competition in a Networked Oligopolistic Market (with Jin Xu)
Pay for Performance?
Simple Contracts without Revelation
Price-Rent Ratios in the Shanghai Housing Market and their Implications for Market Efficiency (with Jie Chen, Robert Hill, and Pei Hu)
Existence of Optimal Bayesian Menu (with Frank Page)
A Network Analysis of Diversified Status Concerns (with Yao-Yu Chih)
Political Connection and Environmental Enforcement: A Case Study of Pollution Levy Policy (with Bing Zhang)
Monographs
“The Logic of Production Factor Pricing Reform in China,” (Joint with Huizhong Li, Jingan Wu, and Xu Wu), China International Press, October, 2004
Teaching Experience
At University of Graz
Microeconomics (English)
At Nanjing University
Games and Contracts (Graduate course, in English)
Intermediate Microeconomics (English/Chinese)
Principles of Microeconomics, (English/Chinese)
Frontier of Economics Research, (English/Chinese)
At Indiana University
Optimization Theory for Economic Analysis
Statistical Analysis for Business and Economics
Principles of Macroeconomics
Principles of Microeconomics
Teaching Training
Training Course and Test of English Proficiency for International Associate Instructor Candidates, Indiana University
Fresh faculty Teaching Training, Nanjing University
Grants
2016-2020 Investigator, National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.71673133)
2016-2018 Investigator, Youth Foundation of Humanities and Social Sciences, Chinese Ministry of Education (Grant No. 15YJC790112)
2014-2018 Investigator, the Chinese National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant no. 71390520)
Conferences and Presentations
Indiana University Jordan River Economics Conference; Midwest Economic Theory and International Trade Conference; Congress of the Game Theory Society; The Association for Public Economic Theory Annual Meeting; Annual St. Louis Fed-Missouri Economics Conference; Econometric Society Asia Meeting; Econometric Society Australia Meeting; SAET Annual Meeting; UECE Lisbon Game Theory Conference; Stony Brook Game Theory Conference; Shandong University IO Conference; Central European Program in Economic Theory; Mechanism and Institution Design Conference
Nanjing University; Zhejiang University; Shanghai Jiaotong University; Fudan University; Shanghai University of Finance and Economics; Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics; Southeastern University; Huazhong University of Science and Technology; East China University of Science and Technology; Tsinghua University; University of International Economics and Business; Southwestern University of Finance and Economics; Wuhan University; Osaka University; University of Queensland; Durham University; Harbin Institute of Technology; Nanjing Audit University
Conferences Organized
International Conference on Innovation and Industrial Economics at Nanjing University, June 25-26, 2016
Honors, Scholarships, and Fellowships
2008 - 2013 Indiana University Graduate Scholarship
2008 – 2010 Indiana University Graduate Fellowship
2004 2nd Prize in the Selection Activity of “Chinese Humanities Science Excellent Fruits in New Era” Conducted by China Management Science Academy
Languages
English (Fluent), Chinese Mandarin (Native)
Computer Skills
Scientific Workplace, LyX, STATA, MATLAB, SAS, Mathematica