林平（Ping LIN）
　 　 　 　 　
Associate Professor 　 　 　 　
Department of Economics 　 　 　 　
Lingnan University

Biography:

Ping Lin is Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, Lingnan University of Hong Kong. He is also a research fellow at the Center for Public Policy Studies at Lingnan. Ping Lin earned his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Minnesota in 1993, taught at Southern Methodist University, and has been at Lingnan since 1997. His research interests are centered on industrial organization, the economics of innovation, and competition policy. His publications have appeared in the Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Industrial Economics, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Review of Industrial Organization, European Economic Review, Canadian Journal of Economics, and other economic journals. He teaches courses on industrial organization, microeconomics, competition policy, and government regulation. He is currently an honorary secretary for the Hong Kong Economic Association.


Dr. Ping LIN, PhD (Minnesota)

　
Contact Information:

Email: plin@ln.edu.hk

Home Page: http://www.ln.edu.hk/econ/staff/plin/plin.html

Address: Department of Economics, Lingnan University, Tuen Mun, N.T., Hong Kong

Phone: (852) 2616 7203

Fax: (852) 2891 7940

CV

Recent Working Papers

Merger Control in China

Strategic Spin-offs of Input Division

Competition Policy in East Asia: The Case of Japan, China, and Hong Kong

Multinationals, Exclusivity, and the Degree of Backward Linkages, with Kamal Saggi

Selected Publications:

A. Competition Policy/Antitrust

"The Evoluation of Competition Law in East Asia", in Erlinda Medalla (ed.), Competition Policy in East Asia, RoutledgeCurzon.

"Market Power and Competition Policy in Hong Kong", (with Edward K.Y. Chen), in D. Slottje (ed.), Measuring Market Power, Amsterdam: North Holland, 2002, pp. 135-152.

"The Recent Development of the Theory of Industrial Organisation and the US Antitrust Policies", in Y. Mao and M. Tang (eds.), The Frontiers of Modern Economics, Vol. III, (in Chinese), Shangwu Press, Beijing, 1998.

"The Antimonopoly Law of Japan", in X. Y. Wang (ed.), Anti-Monopoly Policy and the Market Economy, The Law Press, Beijing, 1998.

"Competition Policy under Laissez-faireism: Market Power and Its Treatment in Hong Kong", (with Edward K. Y. Chen), Review of Industrial Organization, 21, 2002, 145-166.

"The US Antitrust System and Recent Trends in Antitrust Enforcement", (with B. Raj, M. Sanford, and D. Slottje), Journal of Economic Surveys, July 2000, 255-306.

B. Industrial Organization/FDI

"Process and Product R&D by a Multi-product Monopolist", Oxford Economic Papers, forthcoming.

"Spillover Effect of FDI on Innovation in China: Evidence from the Provincial Data", with K.Y. Cheung, China Economic Review, 15, 2004, 25-44.

"Downstream R&D, Raising Rivals’ Costs, and Input Price Contract," with S. Banerjee, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 21 (1), January 2003, 79-96.

"Ownership Structure and Technological Upgrading in Joint Ventures", (with K. Saggi), Review of Development Economics, forthcoming.

"Time of Entry under Externalities", (with K. Saggi), Journal of Economics, 75 (3) 2002, 211-225.

"Under-Provision of Inputs in Joint Ventures with Market Power", (with Kamal Saggi), Bulletin of Economic Research, 54 (2), April 2002, 189-196.

"Product Differentiation, Process R&D, and the Nature of Market Competition", (with K. Saggi), European Economic Review, 46(1), January 2002, 201-211.

"Vertical Research Joint Ventures", (with S. Banerjee), International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 19 (1-2), January 2001, 285-302.

"Stable Cartel with a Cournot Fringe in a Symmetric Oligopoly", (with Hideo Konishi), Keio Economic Studies, 36, 1999, 1-10.

"Incentives for Foreign Direct Investment under Imitation", (with K. Saggi), Canadian Journal of Economics, November 1999, 1275-1298.

"Product Competition and R&D Rivalry", Economics Letters, 1998, 105-111.

"License to be More Innovative", Review of Industrial Organization, April 1997, 271-278.

"Fixed-fee Licensing of Innovations and Collusion", Journal of Industrial Economics, December 1996, 443-449

C. Theory of Banking

"Implementing Efficient Allocations in a Model of Financial Intermediations", (with E. Green), Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 109 (1), March 2003, 1-23.

"Equivalence between the Diamond-Dybvig Banking Model and the Optimal Income Taxation Model," Economics Letters, Vol. 79 (2), May 2003, 193-198.

"Questioning a Classical Theory of Financial Intermediation", (with Edward Green), Quarterly Review of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, April 2000, 3-13.

"Banking, Incentive Constraints, and Deposit Contracts with Nonlinear Return", Economic Theory, 8, 1996, 27-39.

D. Other Publications

"Intellectual Property right Protection in China", in Y.Y. Kueh and Weimin Zheng (eds.), Globalisation and the Sino-US Economic and Trade Relationship, Beijing: China's Social Sciences Press, pp. 372-397

Teaching:

Competition Policy in Hong Kong

Ming Pao (6 Sept 03)

Consumer Protection in Hong Kong