Recently, Assistant Professor Pei-yu Melody Lo at the University of Hong Kong has accepted our offer of tenure-track Assistant Professorship at SOE. Dr. Lo is an outstanding scholar who received her Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in 2006. Her research interests include Game Theory, Economics of Information, Political Economy and Industrial Organization.
The basic information of Dr. Lo is as follows:
Homepage: www.sef.hku.hk/~plo
Academic Positions
Assistant Professor, University of Hong Kong, July 2007 – present
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Brown University, July 2006 – June 2007
Education
2006 ~ Yale University, Ph.D. in Economics
2003 ~ Yale University, M.A. Economics
2001 ~ National Taiwan University, B.A. in Accounting (major) and Economics (minor)
Fields of Interest
Game Theory, Economics of Information, Political Economy, Industrial Organization
Publications
"Sorting: The Function of Tea Middlemen in Taiwan during the Japanese Colonial Era," with Hui-wen Koo, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 160(4), Dec 2004, 607-626.
Working Papers
"Why Does New Hampshire Matter - Simultaneous versus Sequential Primaries," 2012
"Reputation and Competition among Information Intermediaries," 2011
"Bridging the Preference Gap -- The Function of an Information Intermediary," 2011
"Language and Coordination Games," 2009
"Common Knowledge of Language and Iterative Admissibility in a Sender Receiver Game," 2008
