Tai-Wei Hu
Address:
Department of Economics
608 Kern Graduate Building
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
Telephone: (814) 3211178
E-mail:
Website:
tuh129@psu.edu
www.taiweihu.weebly.com
Curriculum Vitae
CITIZENSHIP:
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Taiwan
EDUCATION:
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Ph.D. Economics, Penn State University (Expected Completion June
2009).
M.A. Economics, National Taiwan University, June 2005.
B.A. Accounting, National Taiwan University, June 2002.
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Ph.D. THESIS:
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Essays in pure and applied game theory.
Thesis Advisor: Kalyan Chatterjee
Neil Wallace
FIELDS:
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Primary: Game Theory, Decision Theory.
Secondary: Monetary Economics.
PAPERS:
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Published papers:
1. “On p- rationalizability and approximate common certainty of
rationality,” Journal of Economic Theory, Volume 136, Issue 1,
September 2007, Pages 379-391.
2. “Expected utility theory from the frequentist perspective.”
accepted by Economic Theory.
Working papers:
1. “Coalition-proof trade and the Friedman rule in the LagosWright model.” joint with John Kennan and Neil Wallace.
2. “Counterfeiting substitute media-of-exchange: a threat to
monetary systems.” CAPCP working paper.
3. “Complexity and mixed strategy equilibria.” Job market paper.
4. “Logic for games of perfect information and epistemic
conditions for backward induction and for subgame
perfectness.” In progress.
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AWARD:
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Award for Research Excellence, 2007, College of the Liberal Arts,
Penn State University.
TEACHING
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RESEARCH
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PRESENTATIONS
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REFERENCES:
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Teaching Assistant, Penn State University, to Prof. Vijay Krishna:
Microeconomic Theory (1st year Ph.D.), Fall 2008.
Teaching Assistant, Penn State University, to Prof. Kalyan
Chatterjee: Game Theory (undergraduate), Spring 2005.
Teaching Assistant, Penn State University, to Prof. Sophie Bade:
Game Theory (undergraduate), Fall 2005.
Teaching Assistant Fellowship from Department of Economics,
National Taiwan University: Statistics (undergraduate), Fall 2002,
Spring 2003, Fall 2004, Spring 2005.
Research Assistant: to Prof. Neil Wallace at Department of
Economics, Penn State, from August 2006 to July 2008.
Research Assistant: Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, from
August 2003 to July 2004.
Invited Seminar:
Stanford GSB, Spring 2008.
Conference presentations
1. Econometric Society Far Eastern Meeting, Seoul, Korea, 2004.
2. The 1st Pan Pacific Game Theory Conference, Tsukuba, Japan,
2004.
3. Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Economic
Theory, Vigo, Spain, 2005.
4. The Cornell-PSU Macro Workshop, State College, Spring 2007.
5. The 18th Stony Brook Game Theory Festival of the Game
Theory Society, Stony Brook, 2007.
6. FRG Workshop for Algorithmic Randomness, Chicago, 2007.
7. The Cornell-PSU Macro Workshop, State College, Spring 2008.
8. The 3rd World Congress of the Game Theory Society, Evanston,
2008.
Prof. Neil Wallace,
612 Kern Graduate Building, University Park, PA 16802-3306.
Tel: 1-814-863-3805; E-mail: neilw@psu.edu
Prof. Kalyan Chatterjee,
504 Kern Graduate Building, University Park, PA 16802-3306.
Tel: 1-814-865-6050; E-mail: kchatterjee@psu.edu
Prof. Edward Green,
504 Kern Graduate Building, University Park, PA 16802-3306.
Tel: 1-814-865-8493; E-mail: eug2@psu.edu
Prof. Yossi Feinberg
Graduate School of Business, 518 Memorial Way, Stanford, CA
94305-5015
Tel: 650-725-0331; E-mail: yossi@gsb.stanford.edu