LAN SHI

September 2008

Mailing Address: Dept. of Economics, Box 353330, Seattle, WA 98195

Email: lanshi@u.washington.edu

Webpage: http://faculty.washington.edu/lanshi/

Phone: (206) 543-8983 (office)

CURRENT EMPLOYMENT

Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Washington, 2004 - present

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Business Economics, Graduate School of Business, the University of Chicago, Aug. 2004

M.B.A, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, June 2004

M.A., Economics, Beijing University, Beijing, China, July 1997

B.A., Economics, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, July 1993

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Economics of Contracts and of Organization, Personnel Economics, Applied Microeconomics

PUBLISHED AND ACCEPTED PAPERS IN REFEREED JOURNALS

“The Limit of Oversight in Policing: Evidence from the 2001 Cincinnati Riot” (July 2008, accepted for publication in Journal of Public Economics)

SUBMITTED PAPERS AND WORKING PAPERS

“Respondable Risk and Incentives for CEOs: the Role of Information-collection and Decision-making”, June 2008, under revision for re-submission

“Productivity Effect of Piece Rate Contracts: Evidence from Two Small Field Experiments”, May 2008, under review

“Relational Contract, Reputation Capital, and Forms of Explicit Contracts: Evidence from Information Technology Outsourcing” (joint with Anjana Susarla), September 2008, submitted

"The Effect of Future Referrals on Real Estate Agents' Behavior: Evidence from Multi-listing Service Data" (joint with Christina Tapia), September 2008

WORK IN PROGRESS (TENTATIVE TITLES)

“Tipping Afterward (Bonus Pay) or Beforehand (Efficiency Wage) in the Face of Uncertainty: Evidence from a Field Experiment”

“Forgiving in Relational Contracts”

“Does Monetary Incentives Crowd Out Intrinsic Motivation? Evidence from a Survey”

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Department of Economics, University of Washington

Intermediate Microeconomics, undergraduate course (planned for Winter 2009)

Economics of Human Resource Management, Upper division undergraduate course

Industrial Organization, Upper division undergraduate course

Economics of Contracts and Organizations: Empirics, Ph.D. course

SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES

Academic Presentations

"The Effect of Future Referrals on Real Estate Agents' Behavior: Evidence from Multi-listing Data"

University of Washington, Dept. of Economics, research Tanbag, August 2008 (by co-author)

“Relational Contracts and Forms of Explicit Contracts: Evidence from IT Outsourcing Contracts”

Society for Labor Economists Annual Meeting, New York, May 2008

University of Washington, Dept. of Economics, Organization Economics Brownbag, October 2007, May 2008

“Productivity Effect of Piece Rate Contracts: Evidence from Two Small Field Experiments”

International Industrial Organization Conference, April 2007

University of Washington, Dept. of Economics Labor Brownbag, April 2007

“Respondable Risk and Incentives: Evidence from Executive Compensation”

Aarhus School of Business, December 2005

University of Washington, Dept. of Accounting, October 2004

University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, Dept. of Finance, February 2004

University of Toronto, School of Management, February 2004

University of Washington, Dept. of Economics, January 2004

Chicago GSB, Workshop of Theory of Organization, October 2003

Northwestern Kellogg, Zell Center "Brown Bag" Lunch, October 2003