Florence Ut Meng Ho

Stipendiary (Postdoctoral) Fellow, School of Economics, University of Edinburgh

Personal homepage: https://florenceumho.weebly.com/

Research areas: Economic growth; Technology transfer; Innovation; Tariffs; Subsidies;  Intellectual property rights

Supervisor: Yibai YANG

In my job market paper, I have developed a North-South quality-ladder model with northern innovative R&D, southern adaptive R&D and imitative R&D to analyze the effects of tariffs on innovation, technology transfer, relative wage and welfare.

Yonghang JI

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economics, Univerisity of Macau

Personal homepage: https://yonghangji.github.io/

Research areas: Microeconomic theory, dynamic games, information design, organizational economics

Supervisor: Allen VONG, Angus CHU

In my job market paper, we study a model where a manager repeatedly selects one worker from a group of homogeneous workers to perform a task. We characterize the largest set of parameters under which an equilibrium achieving efficient worker performance exists. We then show that this is the set of parameters given which the following manager’s strategy constitutes an efficient equilibrium: the manager cyclically orders all workers and if the task is undesirable (resp., desirable), a worker is selected until good (resp., bad) performance, after which the manager randomizes between reselecting him and moving to the next worker; the reselection probability is set to be as high as effort incentives permit. Our findings extend to repeated selection of multiple workers.