Vita

CITIZENSHIP
Canadian

EDUCATION
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2002

EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor (with tenure), Concordia University, 2007-
Research Fellow, CIRANO, 2007-
Research Fellow, CIREQ, 2007-
Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia, 2002-2007
Consultant, Unext.com, 1999-2001

VISITING POSITIONS 

Visitor, The Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Summer 2008 

RESEARCH INTERESTS 

Theoretical and empirical models of auctions, matching and bargaining games, microeconometrics

PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS

 "Convergence to Perfect Competition of a Dynamic Matching and Bargaining Market with Two-sided Incomplete Information and Exogenous Exit Rate", with Mark Satterthwaite, Games and Economic Behavior, Vol 63(2), 2008, pp. 435-467.

"Dynamic Matching,Two-sided Incomplete Information, and Participation Costs: Existence and Convergence to Perfect Competition", with Mark Satterthwaite, Econometrica, Vol 75(1), 2007, pp. 155-200.

An Empirical Study of Auction Revenue Rankings: The Case of Municipal Bonds, The Rand Journal of Economics, Vol 37(4), 2006, pp. 1005-1022.

"Path Independent Inequality Measures", with J. Foster, Journal of Economic Theory, 91, 2000.

"A General Class of Additive Decomposable Inequality Measures", with J. Foster, Economic Theory, 14, 1999.

WORKING PAPERS

"The Rate of Convergence to Perfect Competition of a Simple Bilateral Matching and Bargaining Mechanism", with Adam Wong, revised and resubmitted, Journal of Economic Theory

"What Model for Entry in First-Price Auctions? A Nonparametric Approach", with Vadim Marmer and Steven Xu, revise and resubmit, Review of Economic Studies

"Bilateral Matching and Bargaining with Private Information", with Adam Wong

"Quantile-Based Nonparametric Inference for First-Price Auctions", with Vadim Marmer, submitted

"Identification in First-Price Auctions when the Number of Potential Bidders is Unobservable", with Adam Chi Leung Wong, submitted.

GRANTS 

SSHRC "Information revelation and efficiency in matching and bargaining models", 2006 -, $46,875
SSHRC "Dynamic double auctions", 2003-2005, $36,174

RECENT INVITED TALKS

2008
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
International Industrial Organization Conference, Arlington, Virginia
Winter meetings of the Econometric Society, New Orleans
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Society for Economic Design Conference, University of Michigan

2007-2007
University of Pennsylvania
University of Montreal
Pennsylvania State University
Vanderbilt University
Society for Economic Dynamics (Prague)
Simon Fraser University
University of Western Ontario
University of Calgary
Concordia University
UCLA

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2007
Society for Economic Dynamics (Prague)
2006
Canadian Economic Association Meeting, Concordia University
2005
International Industrial Organization Conference, Atlanta
2004
Canadian Economic Theory Conference, McGill University
Clarence D. Tow Conference, the University of Iowa
2003
Decentralization Conference, Purdue University
2002
Canadian Economic Theory Conference, University of Toronto

TEACHING 

Graduate: Information and Incentives, Empirical Industrial Organization, Microeconomics
Undergraduate: Mathematical Economics

Ph.D. STUDENTS SUPERVISION 

Thesis Advisor: Adam Wong(2003-), Heng Ju (co-supervisor, 2006, UBC)
Thesis Committee Member: Steven Xu (2004-), Kazuko Kano (2006, Queens)

REFEREEING 

Econometrica
Review of Economic Studies
American Economic Review
Journal of Economics Theory
Rand Journal of Economics
Games and Economic Behavior
Economic Theory
Journal of Econometrics
International Journal of Industrial Organization
Theoretical Economics
Mathematics of Operations Research
Review of Economic Dynamics
Mathematical Social Sciences
Resource and Energy Economics
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada