Areas of Interest:
Industrial Organization, Economics of Information, Transition Economics, The Chinese Economy

Current Research:

Agency Theory, Industrial Organization, Economic, Theory of Transition, The Chinese Economy, Telecommunications

Special Honors:

Distinguished Professor of Management, Fudan University School of Management, 2003 –

Guest Editor of China Economic Review for v.12, n.1, 2001.

Vice President of the Chinese Economists Society-North America (CES), 1999-2000.

Rikkyo University Exchange Research Associate, 1997

World Bank Visiting Researcher at the China Center for Economic Research, Peking University, 1997

Summer research support awarded by the Social Science Research Council, 1991 and 1992

Selected Publications:

“High benefits and low wages: Employees as monitor of management in SOEs”, China Economic Review, 15: 407-23,2004.

“Integration and access regulations in telecommunications”, Information Economics and Policy, 15, 317-316, 2003

“Vertical Structures and Access Regulation in Telecommunications”, China Economic Quarterly, 2, 1: 131-148, Oct. 2002. (in Chinese)

“Implications of Interjurisdictional Competition in Transition: The Case of the Chinese Tobacco Industry”, Journal of Comparative Economics, 29, 1: 158-182, March 2001.

“Fiscal Decentralization and the Development of the Tobacco Industry in China”, China Economic Review, 1: 158-182, March 2001.

"Is Bank-Industry Grouping a Solution to the Chinese State Sectors? -- The Relevance of Japan's Keiretsu", Rikkyo Economic Review, v. 52, n. 4, pp. 43-62, March 1999.

"Partial Reform and Full Price Liberalization in the Short and Long Run," China Economic Review, Vol.8, No.1, 1997.

"Product-Market Competition and Executive Compensation," (with D. Alexander) Journal of Economics and Business, 1996.

"Rent Seeking and Market Competition," Public Choice, 1995.
"Behavior of State Enterprises in a Hybrid Economy with Market Imperfection," Economic Systems, 1994.

"Planning, Plan-Influencing and Market Fine-Tuning: Implications for Economies in Transition," Journal of Comparative Economics, Sept. 1993.

"Bargaining and Market Decisions of State Enterprises in a Transition Economy," China Economic Review, 1993.

"An Explanation of Coexistence of Taut Planning and Hidden Reserves in Centrally Planned Economies," Journal of Comparative Economics, Sept. 1992.

"Innovation Decision and Reward Structure," Journal of Comparative Economics, Dec. 1991

The Globalization of the Chinese Economy, co-editor with S-J Wei and James Wen, Glos.,UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2002.

The Political Economy of Health Care Reforms, editor, Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2001.

Intermediate Microeconomics (in Chinese), Shanghai, China: Shanghai People’s Publisher, 1997, 2nd ed., 2003.