Profile

Educational background

Sep 2003 - Aug 2009: PhD, Department of Economics, Ohio State University, America

Sep 2003 - Aug 2004: Master degree, Department of Economics, Ohio State University, America

Sep 2001 - Aug 2003: Master degree, Faculty of Economics and Finance, Hong Kong University

Sep 1996 - Jul 2000: Bachelor degree, Department of International Economics and Trade, Nanjing University

Research and academic experience

Sep 2009 - now: Associate Professor, RIEM,Southwestern University of Finance and Economics

Research fields

Industrial organization, Behavioural and Experimental Economics

Main courses

Undergraduate：Principles of Microeconomics, Intermediate Microeconomics

Master：Industrial Organization Theory, Mathematical Economics, Game Theory.

Research achievements (partly)

Representative publications

Hu, Youxin, J. Kagel, H. Yang and Lan Zhang. “The effects of pre-play communication in a coordination game with incomplete information.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 176 (2020): 403-415.

Youxin Hu, John Kagel, Xiaoshu Xu and Lixin Ye，Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of Auctions with Negative Externalities, Games and Economic Behavior 82, 2013: 269–291.

Xing HOU, Youxin HU, Tong ZHANG. An experimental study on license plate auction. Finance and Economics Science, 2013 (12): 82-91.

Research grants:

1. Principal investigator, Ministry of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences Research Youth Fund Project, "Theoretical and experimental study on the impact of the Ccomprehensive two-child policy on fertility rate and female labor participation rate", (18XJC790005), 2019/01-2021/12.

2. Principal investigator, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Central Universities Basic Research Fund for evelopment Project of Young Teachers in 2015, "Theoretical and experimental study on changing customs and habits", (JBK150136), 2015.

3. Principal investigator, National Natural Science Foundation of China Youth Project, "Theoretical and experimental study on land auction in China: Common and related value in information structure", (71303194), 2014-2016.

4. Principal investigator, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, 2011 Experimental Economics Research Project, "Experimental study on strategy selection of online auction", 2011-2012.