LAN SHI
Oct. 2009
Mailing Address: UW Econ,
Email: lanshi@uw.edu
Webpage:
http://faculty.washington.edu/lanshi/
Phone: (206) 543-8983
(office)
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Department of Economics,
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Business Economics,
M.B.A,
M.A., Economics,
B.A., Economics,
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,” Journal of Public Economics, Volume 93, Issue 1-2, Pages 99-113,
February 2009.
WORKING PAPERS
“Respondable
Risk and Incentives for CEOs: the Role of Information-collection and
Decision-making”, Oct. 2009, revise and resubmit, 2nd round.
“Incentive
Effect of Piece Rate Contracts: Evidence from Two Small Field Experiments”, May 2009, under review.
“Relational Contract, Reputation Capital,
and Forms of Explicit Contracts: Evidence from Information Technology
Outsourcing” (joint with Anjana Susarla),
June 2009.
"The
Disciplining Effect of Concern for Referrals for Better Informed Agents:
Evidence from Real Estate Transactions" (joint with Christina Tapia), February 2009.
WORK IN PROGRESS (TENTATIVE
TITLES)
“Intellectual Property Right of Developed Software
and Contractibility: Evidence from IT Outsourcing Contracts” (expected Dec.
2009)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Department
of Economics,
Intermediate Microeconomics, undergraduate course
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 Disciplining Effect of Concern for Referrals
for Better Informed Agents: Evidence from Real Estate Transactions"
AEA meeting,
“Relational Contracts and
Forms of Explicit Contracts: Evidence from IT Outsourcing Contracts”
ISNIE
Annual Conference,
University of
Society for Labor Economists
Annual Meeting,
HT“Productivity Effect of Piece Rate Contracts: Evidence from Two Small Field Experiments”TH
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
3rd
Trans-Atlantic Doctoral Conference, London Business School, May 2003
“The
Limit of Oversight in Policing: Evidence from the 2001 Cincinnati Riot”
Far
Eastern Meeting of the Econometric Society, Beijing, China, July 9-12, 2006
International
Industrial Organization Conference, Boston, April 2006
Conference
on Incentives and Work Motivation in the Public Sector, Rotterdam, December
2005
University
of Washington, Deviance and Social Control Seminar, February 2005
University
of Washington, Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences, November 2004
University
of Washington, Dept. of Economics, October 2004
“The
Use of Past Output as Performance Standard: Ratchet Effect and Learning” (Feb
2006)
University of Washington, Dept. of Economics Brownbag, November 2004
AEA meeting, Atlanta, January 2010 (planned)
NBER
Organizational Economics Meeting, November 2009 (planned)
ISNIE
Annual Conference, Berkeley, June 2009
Presenter,
Society for Labor Economists Annual
Meeting, New York, May 2008
Participant,
NBER Personnel Economics Summer Meeting, Boston, July 2007
Presenter,
American Economic Association Annual Meeting, Boston, January 2006
Presenter
and Discussant, Incentives and Work Motivation in the Public Sector, Rotterdam, Dec.,
2005
Participant,
Western Finance Association Annual Meeting, Portland, June 18 - 21, 2005
Presenter,
3rd Trans-Atlantic Doctoral Conference, London Business School, May 2003
Participant,
World-at-Work Compensation Summer Camp, Utah, July 2001
Journal
of Economic Behavior and Organization
Journal
of Political Economics
Letter of Commendation
for Teaching from Divisional Dean, University of Washington, Fall 2007
Oscar
Mayer Dissertation Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2003-2004
Summer
Research Grant, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, 2000
Doctoral
Fellowship, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, 1999-2003
Distinction
in Ph.D. Qualifier Exam, University of Southern California, 1998
Scholarship
for Academic Excellence, School of Economics, Beijing University, 1996
University
Scholarship, Wuhan University, 1990-1993
Bronze-medal
Winning Team, National Physics Contest, China, 1989
Mark Anderson (Economics Ph.D. student, Dissertation
committee)
Wahid
Abdallah (Economics Ph.D. student,
Dissertation committee)
Troy
Scott (Economics Ph.D. student, Dissertation committee)
Christina
Tapia (Economics Ph.D. student, Dissertation committee chair, graduated in
2009)
Michale
Hanse (Economics Ph.D. student, Dissertation committee, graduated in 2009)
Giedrius
Blazys (Economics Ph.D. student, Dissertation committee, graduated in 2009)
Jenny
Zhang (Accounting Ph.D. student, Dissertation committee member, graduated in
2009)
Anna
Lovatz (Economics Ph.D. student, Dissertation committee member, graduated in
2008)
Jonathan
Evans (Undergraduate Economics student, general studies, graduated in 2008)
Song-ruey
Hwang (Economics Ph.D. student, Dissertation committee member, graduated in
2007)
Andrew
C. Call (Accounting Ph.D. student, Dissertation committee member, graduated in
2007)
Kevin
Koh (Accounting Ph.D. student, Dissertation committee member, graduated in
2007)
Maria
Kozhevnikova ((Economics Ph.D. student, Dissertation committee member,
graduated in 2005)
Ph.D.
Student, Dept. of Economics, Univ.of Southern California, August 1997-August
1999
Loan
Officer and Relationship Manager, China Merchants Bank, Shenzhen, China, July 1993-July 1995
UNIVERSITY
OR DEPARTMENT SERVICES
Served on executive committee, Dept.
of Economics, UW, 2007-2009
Served
on research Committee, Dept. of
Economics, UW, 2004-2008
Helped evaluate Ph.D. application
packages, Dept. of Economics, UW, January 2005, 2009
Panel
speaker on academic job-searching strategy, School of Education, UW, February
2005