Recently, Dr. Pak Hung Au from Northwestern University has accepted our offer of tenure-track Assistant Professorship at SOE. Dr. Au is an outstanding young scholar whose research interests include Microeconomic Theory, Contract Theory and Corporate Finance.
His basic information is as follows:
Homepage: www.depot.northwestern.edu/~pha277/indexjm.html
Education
Ph.D., Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Committee Chairperson: Professor Asher Wolinsky
Date of Completion: June 2012 (expected)
M.A.: Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 2007.
B.A.: Mathematics and Economics (Double Honors), University of British Columbia, Canada, 2006.
Research and Teaching Field
Primary Research Field: Microeconomic Theory, Contract Theory, Corporate Finance.
Secondary Research Field: Industrial Organization, Information Economics.
Teaching Field: Microeconomics, Corporate Finance Theory, Industrial Organization.
Accepted Papers
"Sequentially rationalizable choice with transitive rationales", (with Keiichi Kawai), Games and Economic Behavior, vol.73, issue 2, pages 608-614 (2011).
"Media capture and information monopolization in Japan", (with Keiichi Kawai), Japanese Economic Review, Forthcoming.
Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant, Northwestern University, 2007-2010.
Microeconomics (Intermediate and Doctoral Level).
Environmental and Natural Resource Economics.
Strategy and Organization (Kellogg MBA).
Research Experience
Research Assistant to Professor Asher Wolinsky, 2010-2011
Research Assistant to Professor Yuk-fai Fong, 2010-2011
Research Assistant to Professor Marco Ottaviani, 2011
