Ruqu Wang
Department of Economics
Queen’s University
Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
Tel.: (613)533-2272, Fax: (613)533-6668
e-mail: wangr@queensu.ca
Personal Webpage: http://www.econ.queensu.ca/faculty/wangr
EXPERIENCE
2001-present
Professor
Economics Department, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
2004-2005
Visiting Professor
Economics Department, National University of Singapore, Singapore
2003-2004
Professor
Economics Department, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.
1996-2001
Associate Professor
Economics Department, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
1996-1997
Visiting Assistant Professor
MEDS, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois, U.S.A.
1990-1996
Assistant Professor
Economics Department, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
1985-1986
Teaching Assistant Department of Statistics and Operations Research Fudan University, Shanghai, China
EDUCATION
Degrees: MA; Ph.D
Economics Department, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Degree: BS
Mathematics Department, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Ph.D DISSERTATION
January 1991
"Common-Value Auctions: Theory and Applications"
Advisors: Robert Rosenthal and Andrew Weiss, Boston University
BOARD OF EDITORS
2000--present
Annals of Economics and Finance
2006--present
The B.E. Journals in Economic Analysis and Policy
2011--present
Frontiers of Economics in China
AWARDS
2002-2003
Department of Economics Award in Research Excellence, Queen’s University
RESEARCH FUNDING
April 2011--March 2014
"Auctions with Refund and Dynamic Contests,” funded by SSHRC of Canada
April 2011--March 2012
"A Theory of Refund in Auctions,” funded by the Senate Advisory Research Committee at Queen's University
April 2005--March 2008
“Dynamic Coalition Formation amongst Conflicts of Interest,” funded by SSHRC of Canada
April 2002--March 2005
“Sunk Costs Effect and Its Applications in Auctions,” funded by SSHRC of Canada
April 1999--March 2002
“Switching Costs in Finitely and Infinitely Repeated Games,” funded by SSHRC of Canada
April 1996--March 1999
"Contingent Procurement Auctions," funded by SSHRC of Canada
September 1996--August 1997
Visitor Research Funding, MEDS, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University
May 1995--April 1996
"Multiple-Object Auctions with Asymmetric Bidders,” funded by the Advisory Research Committee at Queen's University
May 1992--April 1993
"Advertising and Price Wars in an Oligopolistic Industry with Adjustment Costs," funded by the Advisory Research Committee at Queen's University
April 1992--March 1996
"Dynamic Auction Theory and Its Applications to Stock Markets; An Informational Approach to Rational Addiction," funded by SSHRC of Canada
October 1990--September 1991
"Auctioning Mechanism and Its Applications in Financial Markets," funde by the Advisory Research Committee at Queen's University