Dr Ruitian Lang

• Microeconomic Theory: dynamic games; mechanism design.
• Organizational Economics: productivity difference

Ruitian Lang is a Lecturer in Economics. Ruitian is a microeconomic theorist interested in dynamic games studying people’s behaviour when they interact more than once and are forward-looking. He also is interested in mechanism design theory, studying the design of sales contracts, auctions or other mechanisms when participants possess private information. In the formal aspect of the mechanism design, he studies mechanisms in which participants must decide whether to acquire more, costly information before entering the mechanisms. In the applied aspect, he studies the dynamics of policy making as well as the implication of negotiation theory for industrial organistion, especially procurement problems. Ruitan has published in top field journals including Journal of Economic Theory and American Journal of Economics: Microeconomics.