Jingfeng Lu

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Department of Economics
National University of Singapore
1 Arts Link, Singapore 117570
Phone: (65) 6516-6026
Fax: (65) 6775-2646
Email: ecsljf@nus.edu.sg


CURRICULUM VITAE
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Editorial Boards

    Associate Editor, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, from July 2015. 
    Associate Editor, Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design, from 2016. 
    Associate Editor, Singapore Economic Review, Oct. 2010 - Sep. 2014. 
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Publications


  1. ​Orchestrating Information Acquisition, with L. Ye and X. Feng, forthcoming, AEJ: Micro.
  2. Sequential Screening with Type-Enhancing Investment, with B. Liu, forthcoming, AEJ: Micro.
  3. ​​Shifting Supports in Esö and Szentes (2007), with B. Liu and D. Liu, Economics Letters, 193, article 109251, 2020.
  4. On Equilibrium Player Ordering in Dynamic Team Contests, with Q. Fu, Economic Inquiry, 58(4), 1830-1844, 2020.
  5. Ex Ante Efficient Mechanism with Private Entry Costs, with X. Feng and Y. Sun, Economic Inquiry, 58(3), 2020, 1531-1541.
  6. Task Arrangement in Team Competitions, with D. Lu, Economics Letters, 193, article 109329, 2020. 
  7. Enhancing Effort Supply with Prize-Augmenting Entry Fees: Theory and Experiments, with B. Hammond, B. Liu, and Y. E. Riyanto, International Economic Review, 60(3), 2019, 1063-1096.
  8. The Optimal Allocation of Prizes in Contests with Costly Entry, with B. Liu, International Journal of Industrial Organization,  66, 2019,  137-161​.
  9. Pairing Provision Price and Default Remedy: Optimal Two-Stage Procurement with Hidden R&D Efficiency, with B. Liu,  Rand Journal of Economics, 49(3), 619-655, 2018.
  10. How to Split the Pie: Optimal Rewards in Dynamic Multi-Battle Competitions, with X. Feng, Journal of Public Economics, 160, 82-95, 2018.
  11. Optimal Prize Allocation in Contests: the Role of Negative Prizes, With B. Liu, R. Wang and J. Zhang, Journal of Economic Theory, 175, 291-317, 2018.
  12. Ranking Disclosure Policies in All-Pay Auctions with Incomplete Information, with Hongkun Ma and Zhe Wang, Economic Inquiry, 56(3), 1464-1485, 2018. 
  13. ​Auctions with Selective Entry, with Matt Gentry and Tong Li,  Games and Economic Behavior, 105, 104-111, 2017.
  14.  Monotone Equilibrium of Two-Bidder All-Pay Auctions Redux, with Sérgio O. Parreiras, Games and Economic Behavior, 104, 78-91, 2017. 
  15. Uniqueness of Equilibrium in Two-Player Asymmetric Tullock Contests with Intermediate Discriminatory Power, with Xin Feng, Economics Letters, 159, 61-64, 2017. ​
  16. Optimal Contest Design under Reverse-Lottery Technology, with Bo Shen and Zhewei Wang, Journal of Mathematical Economics, 72, 25-35, 2017. 
  17. Optimal Prize Rationing in All-Pay Auctions with Incomplete Information, with Xuyuan Liu, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 50, 57-90, 2016.
  18. Axiomatization of Reverse Nested Lottery Contests, with Zhewei Wang, Social Choice and Welfare, 2016, 547, 939-957.
  19. The Optimal Disclosure Policy in Contests with Stochastic Entry: A Bayesian Persuasion Perspective, with Feng Xin, Economics Letters, 147, 103-107, 2016.
  20. Team contests with multiple pairwise battles, with Qiang Fu and Yue Pan, American Economic Review, 2015, 105(7), 2120-40. 
  21. Axiomatizing Multi-Prize Nested Lottery Contests: A Complete and Strict Ranking Perspective, with Zhewei Wang, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 116, 127-141. 
  22. Existence of Monotone Equilibrium in First Price Auctions with Private Risk Aversion and Private Initial Wealth, Games and Economic Behavior, with Matt Gentry and Tong Li, 2015, 94, 214-221. 
  23. Auctions with Selective Entry and Risk Averse Bidders: Theory and Evidence, with Tong Li and Li Zhao, RAND Journal of Economics, 2015, 46(3), 524-545. 
  24. On Disclosure Policy in Tullock Contests with Asymmetric Entry, with Qiang Fu and Jun Zhang, Canadian Journal of Economics, 49(1), 2016. 
  25. "Contests with Endogenous Entry," with Qiang Fu and Qian Jiao, International Journal of Game Theory, 2015, 44(2), 387-424. ​
  26. "The Effort-Maximizing Contest with Heterogeneous Prizes," with Xuyuan Liu, Economics Letters, 125(3), 2014, 422-425.
  27. "Disclosure policy in a multi-prize all-pay auction with stochastic abilities," with Qiang Fu and Qian Jiao, Economic Letters, 125(3), 2014, 376-380.
  28. "'Reverse' Nested Lottery Contests," with Qiang Fu and Zhewei Wang, Journal of Mathematical Economics, 50, 2014, 128-140.
  29. "Efficient and Optimal Mechanisms with Private Information Acquisition Costs," with Lixin Ye, Journal of Economic Theory, 148(1), 2013, 393-408.
  30. "Competitive Effect of Cross-shareholdings in All-Pay Auctions with Complete Information," with Qiang Fu, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 31(3), 2013, 267-277.
  31. "Incentivizing R&D: Prize or Subsidies?", with Qiang Fu and Yuanzhu Lu, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 30(1), 2012, 67-79.
  32. "Micro Foundations for Generalized Multi-Prize Contest: A Noisy Ranking Perspective," with Qiang Fu, Social Choice and Welfare, 38(3), 2012, 497-517.
  33. "Optimal Multi-Stage Contest," with Qiang Fu, Economic Theory, 51(2), 2012, 351-382, Reviewed by NAJ Economics.
  34. "Optimal Auctions with Asymmetric Financial Externalities," Games and Economic Behavior, 74(2), 2012, 161-175.
  35. "On Disclosure Policy in Contests with Stochastic Entry," with Qiang Fu, Qian Jiao, Public Choice, 148(3), 2011, 419-434.
  36. "Entry Coordination and Auction Design with Private Costs of Information-Acquisition," Economic Inquiry, 48(1), 2010, 274-289.
  37. "Contest Design and Optimal Endogenous Entry," with Qiang Fu, Economic Inquiry, 48(1), 2010, 80-88.
  38. "Contest with Pre-Contest Investment," with Qiang Fu, Economics Letters, 103(3), 2009, 142-145.
  39. "Private Provision of a Discrete Public Good with Voluntary Participation," with Euston Quah, Journal of Public Economic Theory, 11(3), 2009, 343-362.
  40. "The Beauty of `Bigness': on Optimal Design of Multi Winner Contests," with Qiang Fu, Games and Economic Behavior, 66, 2009,146-161.
  41. "Why A Simple Second-Price Auction Induces Efficient Endogenous Entry," Theory and Decision, 66, 2009: 181-198.
  42. "Auction Design with Opportunity Cost," Economic Theory, 38(1), 2009: 73-103.
  43. "Estimating Risk Aversion Using Ascending and Sealed Bid Auctions: Application to Timber Data," with Isabelle Perrigne, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 23, 2008: 871-896.
  44. "Optimal Entry in Auctions with Valuation Discovery Costs," Applied Economics Research Bulletin, 2, no. 1 (Special Issue on Auctions) (2008): 22 -30.
  45. "Measuring the Degree of Assortative Mating," with Haoming Liu, Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 92(3), pages 317-322, 2006.

Working Papers


  1. Identification and Estimations in First-Price Auctions with Risk-Averse Bidders and Selective Entry, with Xiaohong Chen, Matt Gentry and Tong Li, R&R at Review of Economic Studies.
  2. To Bundle or Not To Bundle: Incentivizing Multiple Competitions, with Bo Shen and Zhewei Wang
  3. Rank Order Contests with Multiplicative Sabotage Effect, with Haoming Liu, Yohanes E. Riyanto and Zhe Wang.
  4. Auction Design with Shortlisting: The Case with Covert Information Acquisition, with Murali Agastya, Xin Feng.
  5. Stochastic Private Values in Auctions: Identification and Estimation.​
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