Jingfeng Lu

Jingfeng Lu
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CONTACT INFORMATION
Department of Economics
Phone: (65) 6516-6026
National University of Singapore
Fax:
(65) 6775-2646
1 Arts Link, Singapore 117570
Email: ecsljf@nus.edu.sg
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Theoretical and Empirical Auctions
Tournaments, Contests, Relative Performance
Industrial Organization
Applied Econometrics
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore, since
July, 2004
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Economics, University of Southern California, 2004
“Essays on Auctions”
M.S., Management Science, Beijing University, China, 1994
B.S., Mathematics, Shandong University, China, 1991
HONORS
LAS Merit Award, USC, 2003-2004
Outstanding Academic Achievement Award, USC, 2003
Japanese International Education Association Fellowship, 1996-1997
Sasakawa Young Leader Fellowship, Beijing University, China, 1995
Guanghua Fellowship, Beijing University, China, 1992
Guanghua Fellowship, Shandong University, China, 1990
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RESEARCH GRANTS
National University of Singapore, Academic Research Fund, October 2004 – June, 2007
National University of Singapore, Academic Research Fund, December 2007 – October,
2009
National University of Singapore, Academic Research Fund, February 2008 – January,
2010
National University of Singapore, FASS Staﬀ Research Support Scheme, April 2005 –
March, 2006
National University of Singapore, FASS Staﬀ Research Support Scheme, April 2006 –
March, 2007
National University of Singapore, FASS Staﬀ Research Support Scheme, April 2007 –
March, 2008
National University of Singapore, FASS Staﬀ Research Support Scheme, April 2008 –
March, 2009
CONFERENCES PRESENTATIONS:
American Economic Association Meeting, San Francisco, 2009 (Accepted)
Midwest Mathematical Economics and Theory Meeting, Ohio State University, Fall 2008
American Economic Association Meeting, New Orleans, 2008
Third World Congress of the Game Theory Society, Northwestern University, Poster Pre-
sentation, 2008
Far Eastern and South Asian Econometric Society Meeting, Singapore, 2008
Summer Workshop in Industrial Organization and Management Strategy, NUS, 2008
International Industrial Organization Conference, 2008, Washington D.C.
Summer Workshop in Industrial Organization, Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology, 2008
Conference on Tournaments, Contests and Relative Performance Evaluation, 2008, North
Carolina State University
North American Econometrics Society Summer Meeting, Duke University, 2007
SAET Conference, Greece, 2007
International Game Theory Conference, Stony Brook, 2007
Singapore Economic Theory Conference, 2007
Singapore Economic Review Conference, Singapore, 2007
Hongkong Economic Association Conference, December, 2006
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Public Economic Theory Conference, 2006
International Game Theory Conference, 2006
Econometrics Society Australasian Meeting, 2006
Pan Paciﬁc Game Theory Conference, 2005
Australian Conference for Economists, 2005
Singapore Economic Review Conference, 2005
Applied Microeconomics Workshop, Tokyo University, 2005
Workshop on Uncertainty and Information in Economics, NUS, 2005
International Industrial Organization Conference, Northwestern University, 2004
North American Econometric Society Summer Meeting, Northwestern University, 2003
North American Econometric Society Winter Meeting Washington D.C., 2003
PUBLICATIONS:
1. Measuring the Degree of Assortative Mating, with Haoming Liu, Economics Letters,
Elsevier, vol. 92(3), pages 317-322, 2006.
2. Optimal Entry in Auctions with Valuation Discovery Costs, Applied Economics Re-
search Bulletin, 2, no. 1 (Special Issue on Auctions) (2008): 22 -30.
3. Why A Simple Second-Price Auction Induces Eﬃcient Endogenous Entry, Theory and
Decision, forthcoming.
4. Contest Design and Optimal Endogenous Entry, with Qiang Fu, Economic Inquiry,
forthcoming.
5. Auction Design with Opportunity Cost, Economic Theory, forthcoming.
6. The Beauty of “Bigness”: on Optimal Design of Multi Winner Contests, with Qiang
Fu, Games and Economic Behavior, forthcoming.
7. Estimating Risk Aversion Using Ascending and Sealed Bid Auctions: Application to
Timber Data, with I. Perrigne, Journal of Applied Econometrics, forthcoming.
8. “Entry Coordination and Auction Design with Private Costs of Information-Acquisition”,
Economic Inquiry, forthcoming.
PAPERS SUBMITTED
1.
“When and How to Dismantle Nuclear Weapons”, Under revision at Games and
Economic Behavior
2. “Optimal Multi-Stage Contest”, with Fu Qiang, Revised and Resubmitted to Economic
Theory. Reviewed by NAJ Economics.
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3. “Private Provision of a Discrete Public Good with Voluntary Participation”, with
Euston Quah, Revised and Resubmitted to Journal of Public Economic Theory
4. “Can It be Too Crowded in Contests: Over Competition with Pre-Investment”, with
Fu Qiang, submitted.
5. “The Optimal Research Contests: Subsidies or Prizes”, with Fu Qiang and Yuanzhu
Lu, submitted.
6. “Unifying Contests: from Noisy Ranking to Ratio Form Contest Success Functions”,
with Fu Qiang, submitted.
WORKING PAPERS
1. “Stochastic Private Values in Auctions: Identiﬁcation and Estimation”
2. “Eﬃcient Auctions with Continuous Private Participation Costs”, with Yeneng Sun
3. “Multiple-Winner Contests with Diﬀerential Prizes”, with Fu Qiang
4. “Exclusive Bidding: Value Discovery and the Value of a Bidder”, with Murali Agastya
5. “Endogenous entry and auctions design with private participation costs”
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