Xinyu HUA Assistant Professor Email: xyhua@ust.hk Ph.D.     2005   Northwestern University, Managerial Economics                              and Strategy B.A.       1998   Peking University, Economics   Personal website

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Assistant Professor of Economics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2005-present 
• Bank of China, P.R. China, 1998-1999

RESEARCH INTERESTS

           Contract theory, economics of organizations, industrial organization, law and economics
          


 

 PUBLICATIONS 

• "Ex ante Investment, Ex post Remedies, and Product Liability", with Yongmin Chen, forthcoming at International Economic Review
• “The Right of First Offer,” accepted for publications in International Journal of Industrial Organization.
• "Product Recalls and Liability", Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, accepted in 2009 and to be printed in 2011.
• "Strategic Ex-ante Contracts: Rent Extraction and Opportunity Costs." Rand Journal of Economics, 2007, Vol. 38:786-803
• "Information and Externalities in Sequential Litigation." Joint with Kathryn E. Spier, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2005,161(2): 215--232.

   Working Papers

•  “Advocates, Information Transmission, and Sequential Search,” under review
•  “The Effects of Strategic Breakup Fees on Cooperative Investments”

 
  Work in Progress

• "Competition, Product Safety, and Liability,” with Yongmin Chen (University of Colorado, Boulder)
•  “ An Empirical Analysis of Strategic Contracts". ” with Di Guo and Kun Jiang (University of Hong Kong)

  Teaching Experience  

Department of Economics, HKUST, 2005-

   Managerial Economics (EMBA)
   Strategic Decisions with Economic Insight (EMBA)
   Managerial Microeconomics (MBA)
   Competitive Strategy (MBA and MSc)
   Strategy and Organization (MBA and MSc)

Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2004, 2005 

   Statistical Methods for Management Decisions (MBA)
 

  Award

          HKUST: Franklin Prize for Teaching Excellence, 2008, 2011 
          Kellogg: Award for Excellent Teaching by PhD Student, 2005



  Research Grant

          Hong Kong RGC: GRF Grant # 642008, 2008-2010
          Hong Kong RGC: GRF Grant # 642211, 2011-2013

  Referee for

B.E. Journals in Theoretical Economics, European Economic Review,  Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Journal of Human Capital,  Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Rand Journal of Economics, etc