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Harrison Cheng

Associate Professor Emeritus of Economics
Email hacheng@usc.edu

Research & Practice Areas

General Equilibrium, Game Theory, Chinese Economic Development.

Education

  • Ph.D. , University of California, Berkeley, 1/1977

  • Summary Statement of Research Interests

    Professor Cheng researches general equilibriun, game theory and Chinese economic development.

    Research Keywords

    general equilibriun, game theory, chinese economic development

  • Conference Presentations

    • Private Value Auctions, Resale and Common Value Lecture/Seminar, Invited, Univeristy of California, Riverside, 02/22/2010 –
    • Private Value Auctions, Resale and Common Value Lecture/Seminar, National Taiwan University, Invited, Taipei, Taiwan, 12/03/2009
    • Private Value Auctions, Resale and Common Value , Western Economic Society ConferenceTalk/Oral Presentation, Kyoto Institute of Economic Research, Invited, Vancouver, Canada , 06/29/2009 – 07/03/2009
    • Private Value Auctions, Resale and Common Value , General Equilibrium Conference in Honor of Andreu Mas-CollelTalk/Oral Presentation, Invited, Barcelona, Spain, 06/05/2009 – 06/07/2009
    • Private Value Auctions, Resale and Common Value Lecture/Seminar, Nuffield College, Oxford University, Invited, Oxford, England, 05/26/2009 – 05/28/2009
    • Auctions with Resale and Bragaining Power , Boston IO conference Talk/Oral Presentation, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 04/03/2009 – 04/05/2009
    • Auctions with Resale and Bragaining Power Lecture/Seminar, Department of Economics, Eller College of Manage, Invited, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona , 01/30/2009
    • Auctions with Resale and Bragaining Power Lecture/Seminar, University of Tokyo, Invited, Tokyo, Japan, 12/16/2008
    • Auctions with Resale and Bragaining Power , 6th International Conference of Economic Theory, KyotoTalk/Oral Presentation, Invited, Kyoto, Japan, 12/12/2008 – 12/13/2008
    • Asymmetric Common Value Auctions and Auctions with Resale , World Congress of Game TheoryTalk/Oral Presentation, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 07/13/2008 – 07/17/2008
    • Asymmetric Common Value Auctions and Auctions with Resale , SITE summer workshops on market designTalk/Oral Presentation, SITE, Invited, Stanford University, 06/23/2008 – 06/25/2008
    • Asymmetric Common Value Auctions and Auctions with Resale , 2008 NASM of the Econometric SocietyTalk/Oral Presentation, Invited, Pittsbuer, PA, 06/19/2008 – 06/23/2008
    • Asymmetric Common Value Auctions and Auctions with Resale , Auctions ConferenceTalk/Oral Presentation, Invited, Penn State University, State College, PA, 04/03/2008 – 04/05/2008
    • Asymmetric Common Value Auctions and Auctions with Resale , SWET 2008 annual meeting Talk/Oral Presentation, Univeristy of California, Santa Barbara, 02/29/2008 – 03/02/2008
    • Asymmetric Common Value Auctions and Auctions with Resale , 2008 ASSA annual meeting Talk/Oral Presentation, New Orleans, LA, 01/04/2008 – 01/06/2008
    • Asymmetric Common Value Auctions , Midwest Economic Theory MeetingTalk/Oral Presentation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 11/01/2007 – 11/03/2007
    • Ranking Sealed High-bid and Open Auctions , Far East Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society Talk/Oral Presentation, Taipei, Taiwan, 07/2007

    Other Presentations

    • Auctions with Resale and Bragaining Power, Seminar, Urbana-Champaign, IL, 2008-2009
    • Auctions with Resale and Bragaining Power, Seminar, Durham, NC, 2008-2009
    • Auctions with Resale and Bragaining Power, Seminar, Columbus, OH, 2008-2009
    • Auctions with Resale and Bragaining Power, Seminar, Lawrence, KS, 2008-2009
    • Asymmetric Common Value Auctions and Auctions with Resale, Seminar, Brussels, Belgium, 2007-2008
    • Asymmetric Common Value Auctions and Auctions with Resale, Seminar, Leicester, England, 2007-2008
    • Asymmetric Common Value Auctions and Auctions with Resale, Seminar, Ames, Iowa, 2007-2008
    • Asymmetric Common Value Auctions and Auctions with Resale, Seminar, Charllottesville, VA, 2007-2008
    • Asymmetric Common Value Auctions and Auctions with Resale, Seminar, Blacksburg, VA, 2007-2008
    • Asymmetric Common Value Auctions and Auctions with Resale, Seminar, Nashville, TN, 2007-2008
    • Auctions with Resale and Bragaining Power, Seminar, Wichita, KS, 2007-2008
    • Asymmetric Common Value Auctions and Auctions with Resale, Seminar, Berkeley, CA, 2007-2008
    • Asymmetric Common Value Auctions, Seminar, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, 2007-2008
    • Auctions with Resale, Seminar, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, 2006-2007

  • Book Review

    • Cheng, H. (2007). Book Review of Asian Economic Cooperation in the New Millennium by Calla Wiener and Heping Cao. China Review International.

    Journal Article

    • Cheng, H. (2011). Auctions with Resale and Bargaining Power. Journal of Mathematical Economics. Vol. 43 (3), pp. 300-308.
    • Cheng, H. (2011). Asymmetry and Revenue in First-Price Auctions. Economic Letters. Vol. 111 (1), pp. 78-80.
    • Cheng, H. (2010). Optimal auction with discrete bidding. International Journal of Game Theory.
    • Cheng, H., Tan, G. (2010). Asymmetric Common Value Auctions with Applications to Private Value Auctions with Resale. Economic Theory. Vol. 45 (1-2), pp. 253-290.
    • Cheng, H., Hsiao, C., Nugent, J. B., Qiu, J. (2006). Managerial Autonomy, Contractual Incentives and Productivity in a Transition Economy: Some Evidence from China’s TVEs. Pacific Economic Review/Blackwell. Vol. 11 (3), pp. 341-361.
    • Cheng, H. (2006). Ranking Sealed High-bid and Open Auctions. Journal of Mathematical Economics. Vol. special volume in honor of Gerard Debreu

    Working Paper

    • Cheng, H., Tan, G.Private-Auction, Resale and Common Value.