Wen Zhou
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Associate
Professor, HKU Business School, University of Hong Kong Office: 1225 K.K. Leung |
Wen Zhou received PhD in economics from Duke University in 2000. He joined the University of Hong Kong in 2007 as an associate professor in the group of Management and Strategy, HKU Business School. Previously he had worked at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Zhou is an economist working in the field of industrial organization. His research focuses on endogenous market structure in the presence of mergers, innovation, and international trade. He has also studied business strategies such as pricing and advertising. He has been teaching Managerial Economics for MBA, IMBA and EMBA programs.
Selected publications
- Proportional
Fee vs Unit Fee: Competition,
Welfare, and Incentives, with Dingwei Gu and Zhiyong Yao, Journal of Industrial Economics,
2021, PDF
- Optimal
Contract under Double Moral Hazard and Limited Liability, with Jiajia
Cong, Journal of Economics,
2021, PDF
- Inflexible Repositioning:
Commitment in Competition and Uncertainty, with Jiajia Cong, Management Science, 2020. PDF
- Vertical integration and
disruptive cross-market R&D, with Ping Lin and Tianle Zhang, Journal of Economics and Management
Strategy, 2020, 29:1, pp. 51–73.
PDF
- When is Upstream Collusion Profitable? with Dingwei Gu, Zhiyong Yao, and Rangrang Bai, Rand Journal of Economics, 2019, 50:2, pp. 326–341. PDF
- Entry, reputation and
intellectual property rights enforcement, with Jiahua Che and Larry
Qiu, Canadian Journal of Economics, 2014, Vol.47, pp.1256-1281. PDF
- Multiproduct firms
and scope adjustment in globalization, with Larry Qiu, Journal of
International Economics, 2013, Vol.91, pp.142-153. PDF
- The effects of
competition on the R&D portfolios of multiproduct firms, with Ping
Lin, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2013,
Vol.31, pp.83-91. PDF
- Endogenous
horizontal mergers under cost uncertainty, International Journal of
Industrial Organization, 2008, Vol.26, pp.903-912. PDF
- Large is
beautiful: Horizontal mergers for better exploitation of business shocks,
Journal of Industrial Economics, 2008, Vol.56, pp.68-93. PDF
- Merger waves: A
model of endogenous mergers, with Larry Qiu, RAND Journal of
Economics, 2007, Vol.38, pp.214-226. PDF,
supplement
- International
mergers: Incentive and welfare, with Larry Qiu, Journal of
International Economics, 2006, Vol.68, pp.38-58. PDF
- The
choice of commercial breaks in television programs: The number, length,
and timing, Journal of Industrial Economics, 2004, Vol.52,
pp.315-326. PDF
Business cases developed at HKU ACRC
- The Myth of Death: A
Guide to Business Case Analysis, 22/723C
- Meituan Dianping: China’s Super
Service App, 20/661C
- Tencent Music
Entertainment Group: Melding Music with Social Experiences, 20/657C
- Uber in Hong Kong: A
Regulator’s Dilemma, 18/605C
- Zero-Fee Tours: An
Irresistible Bargain or a Sinkhole? 12/505C
- Coca-Cola and Huiyuan:
Antitrust Barriers in Buying Top Chinese Brands, part (A) and part (B),