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Lu Hong
Title: Professor
Office #: Maguire Hall 560
Phone: 312-915-7067
E-mail: lhong@luc.edu

Personal Information

Degrees

  • Ph.D, Economics, University of Minnesota, 1991
  • B.S., Mathematics, Fudan University, P.R. China, 1985

Research Interests

  • Implementation
  • Mechanism Design
  • Organization Theory
  • Complexity
  • Game Theory
  • Mathematical Economics
  • Public Economics
  • Financial Economics

Professional Associations
member of econometric society

Professional Activities
Referee for:

  • Economietrica
  • Economic Design
  • Economic Journal
  • Economics Letters
  • Games and Economic Behavior
  • International Economic Review
  • Journal of Economic Theory
  • National Science Foundation Proposals
  • Social Choice and Welfare
  • Theory and Decision

Courses Taught

  • FINC 335

Research Listings


REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
"Groups of Diverse Problem Solvers Can Outperform Groups of High-ability Problem Solvers," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2004 101: 16385 - 16389 2004 , Co-Authors: Scott E. Page

PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
"Interpreted and Generated Signals," NBER/NSF Decentralization Conference, Ann Arbor, April 2007, Co-presenting: Scott Page
"The Logic of Information Aggregation Re-examined," Far East Econometric Society Meetings, July 2006

CONTRIBUTIONS OR CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
"Collective Rationality," Steve Durlauf and Larry Blume eds., The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, (Macmillan London), 2006

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITY
"Bounded Rationality, Diversity and Optimality," Research Seminar, School of Business, Loyola University Chicago , Feb. 2002

Research in Progress

Title: Diversity and complexity in information aggregation
Area of Research: economics
Collaborators: Scott Page

Title: The Logic of Information Aggregation Re-examined
Area of Research: economics
Collaborators: Scott Page