Research Interests

Biography

Yangguang (Sunny) Huang an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is also a research affiliate at the Center for Economic Policy and faculty associate of the Division of Public Policy and Institute of Emerging Market Studies at HKUST. Sunny received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Washington, Seattle. His research areas are Industrial Organization and Applied Microeconomics. The theme of his research is combining economic models and econometric techniques to study policy-oriented topics. His research projects tackle problems in auction, procurement, corruption, financial development, digital economy, online markets, and innovation policy.

Publications

• "Auction-lottery Hybrid Mechanisms: Structural Model and Empirical Analysis" (with Quan Wen), International Economic Review, 2019

• "Procurement Auctions under Quality Manipulation Corruption" (with Jijun Xia), European Economic Review, 2019

• "An Empirical Study of Scoring Auctions and Quality Manipulation Corruption," European Economic Review, 2019

• "Structural Analysis of Tullock Contests with an Application to U.S. House of Representatives Elections" (with Ming He), International Economic Review, 2021

• "Whom to Educate? Financial Literacy and Investor Awareness" (with Zhengqing Gui and Xiaojian Zhao), China Economic Review, 2021

• "Resource Allocation Among Competing Innovators" (with Pin Gao, Xiaoshuai Fan, Ying-Ju Chen), Management Science, 2021.

• "Supervisory Efficiency and Collusion in a Multiple-agent Hierarchy" (with Xiaogang Che and Le Zhang), Games and Economic Behavior, 2021

WORKING PAPERS

• "Financial Fraud and Investor Awareness" (with Zhengqing Gui and Xiaojian Zhao)

• "A Model of Sales on Online Platforms" (with Yu Xie)

• "An Empirical Study of Learning and Strategic Bidding in Large-scale Multi-unit Auctions" (with Haohui Wang and Liang Zhao)

• "Agency Model versus Wholesale Model" (with Dingwei Gu)

• "Price Signaling and Reputation Building: Evidence from Consulting Platform" (with Si Zuo and Chenyang Li)

• "Idea Diversity and Multiple Prizes in Innovation Contests" (with Zhuoqiong Chen and Bin Liu)

• "Why did the Peer-to-peer Lending Market Fail in China?" (with Dingwei Gu and Zhengqing Gui)

WORK IN PROCESS

• "Structural Analysis of Competing Auctions."

• "Stores Going Online: Market Expansion or Cannibalization?"

• "Cross-market Acquisition of Giant Platforms"

• "Bridging Universities and Industry: A Case Study of Hong Kong TSSSU Program"