Chia-Ming Yu 


Department of Economics
Washington University in St. Louis

chiaming.yu@hotmail.com

 



In modern economies, QOL is a source rather than the result for city growth.



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), 2010 Econometric Society World Congress, ShangHai (August 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 Price and Quantity Competition 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 the network benifit with the 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 (2004~2010):

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