Research
Last update: December 2, 2009
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Current Research Interests:
I am currently most interested in:
economics of strategy, economics of innovation, and prediction markets.
I have been working on issues related to:
blogging, cultural evolution, contest design, corruption, democratization, educational finance, markets for ideas, organizational governance and management, organized crime, prisoners' dilemma, rent-seeking, war-making and peace-making.
Interdisciplinary Integrated Research Projects
Center for Prediction Markets
The NCCU Future Events Exchange
Joint project with:
Jih-wen Lin
(Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica and Department of Political Science, National Chengchi University),
Hsin-Yi Lin
(Department of Economics, National Chengchi University),
Chia-Kai Liu,
Chen-yuan Tung
(Sun Yat-sen Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, National Chengchi University),
Tzu-Chuan Chou
(Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica)
March 2006 - November 2009
Cheating, Illusion, Lying, and Fantasy:
Towards a Cultural Political Economy Beyond Facts and Reality.
Joint project with: Yi-Chien Chen (Graduate Institute for Gender Studies), Supo Kao (School of Law), Chun Chien Kuo (Department of Economics), Szu-ping Lin (Department of Journalism)
Shih-Hsin University Project Number C9202: Nov 1, 2003 - July 31, 2004
Conference Presentation
Rent-Seeking by Academic Reviewers and Institutional Reform
Taiwan Economic Association 2005 Annual Meeting, Taipei, Taiwan, December 21, 2005
How to Promote Cultural Evolution under Organizational Authority?
(in Chinese) First Hayekian Society Conference, Beijing, China, August 25-26, 2005.
Transaction Costs and the Production and Propogation of Knowledge: An Empirical Analysis of Bloggers' Popularity Index
(in Chinese) (with Shih-Ying Wu) The Sixth Annual Conference on Empirical Economics, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, May 14, 2005.
Rent-Seeking Coalitions, Gangs, and Politicians
Public Choice Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore, March 11-14, 2004
The War and Peace Between the Snipe and the Clam
Taiwan Economic Association Annual Meeting, Taipei, December 21, 2003
Rent-Seeking and Loot-Seeking when Stalemate is a Possible Outcome
Public Choice Society Annual Meeting, San Diego, March 22-24, 2002
A Turandot Multi-Stage Rent-Seeking Contest: Winning her Heart or Losing your Head
Public Choice Society Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, March 9-11, 2001
A Self-Enforcing Peace Agreement Based on an Exchange of Callable Bonds
Public Choice Society Annual Meeting, Charleston, SC, March 10-12, 2000
The Game over the Rules of the Game
INEM/AEA, Allied Social Science Association Annual Convention, Boston, MA, January 7-9, 2000
Solving Tullockian Problems of Majority Voting and Federalism
Public Choice Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 12-14, 1999
The Collapse of a Taxing and Monopolizing Cartel: A Bandit Proliferation Theory of Democratization
Public Choice Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 13-15, 1998
Public Choice Society 2002 Meeting, San Diego
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