zhiyong (john) liu

Associate Professor, Insurance & Risk Management

B.A.: Wuhan University, 1993
M.A.: Peking University, 1996
Ph.D.: Managerial Economics & Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2005

Assistant Professor of Risk Management & Insurance, Georgia State University, 2005-2011;
Teaching Assistant, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2000-2004;
Lecturer of Economics, Tsinghua University, 1996-1998;

Private Information and the Option to Not Sue: A Re-evaluation of Contract Remedies (with Ronen Avraham), forthcoming 28(1), Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, accepted in 2009 and scheduled to be in print in 2012.
Incomplete Contracts with Asymmetric Information: Exclusive versus Optional Remedies (with Ronen Avraham), American Law and Economics Review, 8(3):523-561, Fall 2006.
Increased Hurricane Risk and Insurance Market Responses (with Martin Grace and Robert Klein), Journal of Insurance Regulation, 24(2):3-32, Winter 2005.
Stackelberg Leadership with Demand Uncertainty, Managerial and Decision Economics, 26:345-350, 2005.
Abuse of Market Dominance under China’s 2007 Anti-monopoly Law: A Preliminary Assessment (with Yue Qiao), conditionally accepted, Review of Industrial Organization.

Strategic Optional Contract Remedies (with Ronen Avraham).
Investment Incentives and Efficiency under Optional vs. Exclusive Remedy Contracts (with Ronen Avraham).
Strategic Allocation of Internal Capital as a Commitment and Screening Device.
Strategic R&D Competition in an Uncertain Market.
Mother Nature on the Rampage: Implications for Insurance Markets (with Martin Grace and Robert Klein).
Optimal Product Risk Management with Learning and Asymmetric Information.

Scott College of Business