Chia-Ming Yu 





Department of Economics
Washington University in St. Louis
Email: cyua@artsci.wustl.edu

 

Working Papers:

[1] "Location can at best be an approximate rather than a precise sieve for high-skill labor."
  
"Locational Signaling and Agglomeration," (with Marcus Berliant), presented at 2009 Fall Midwest Economic Theory Meeting, Pennsylvania State University (October 31); 2009 North American Regional Science Council, San Francisco (November 19)

 

[2] "Location can distort market efficiency in information transmission."
  
"Rational Expectations in Urban Economics," (with Marcus Berliant), presented at 2008 North American Regional Science Council, New York (November 20); 2009 Spring Midwest Economic Theory Meeting, Iowa City (May 2); 2009 North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, Boston (June 5)

 

Published Research Papers:

[1] "Generically, the dispute between price and quantity competition does not matter in some locational models."
  
"Cournot and Bertrand Competitions Yield the Same Location Equilibria in a Circular Market," Papers in Regional Science (November 2007), 643-655.

 

[2] "The diversity of equilibrium patterns goes beyond economists' imagination in a circular market."
  
"Where to Locate in a Circular City?" International Journal of Industrial Organization, (June 2004), 759-782.

 

[3] "Economic agglomeration or dispersion cannot be attributed to the shape of markets."
  
"Cournot Competition in Spatial Markets: Some Further Results," Papers in Regional Science (November 2003), 569-580.

 

[4] "The optimal path of standardization trades off network benifit and a demand for product diversity."
  
"Network Effects, Network Scales, and Competition among Technologies," Taiwan Economic Association Annual Conference Proceedings (December 2001).

 

Published Book:

[1]    Mathematica Programming Style and Applications, Kings Information Press (2002) (ISBN: 9574665941).

 

Referee Experience (2004~2009):

Economic Theory, Journal of Regional Science, Papers in Regional Science, Taiwan Economic Review.

 

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In Memory of Jane Jacobs

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Economic Fun:

Game 2x2

Addiction on Behavioral Economics