Overview
ZhuoRan LU
- Department:Economics
- Phone: 62933255
- Title:Assistant Professor
- Email:luzhuoran@sjtu.edu.cn
Positions
2024–present, Assistant Professor, Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
2018–2024, Assistant Professor, School of Management, Fudan University
2019, Visiting Scholar, MIT Sloan School of Management
Education
2012–2018, Ph.D. in Economics, UCLA
2008–2012, B.A. in Economics, B.A. in Law (double major), Tsinghua University
Personal Website
Research Interests
Contract Theory, Organizational Economics, Network Economics, Digital Economy
Publications
“Selling Signals,” Journal of Economic Theory, 224 (2025), 105966.
“Network-Based Peer Monitoring Design,” (with Yangbo Song), Journal of Economic Theory, 224 (2025), 105969.
Working Papers
“Leveraging Network Effects for Connected Products: Strategies and Implications for the Value Chain,” (with Yifan Dou, D.J. Wu and Jian Chen), minor revision at MIS Quarterly.
“Competitive Nonlinear Pricing for Signals”.
“Real-Time Monitoring and Relational Contracts in Usage-Based Insurance,” (with Jiajia Cong).
“Data-Driven Hold-Up and Relational Contracts,” (with Limei Chen).
Grants
2023.01–2025.12, Principal Investigator, “Optimal Pricing for Signaling Goods: Information Structure and Market Structure”, National Natural Science Foundation of China.
2022.01–2026.12, Member, “Research on Scientific Antitrust Regulation in the Digital Economy”, The Key Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China.
2024.01–2027.12, Member, “Research on Market Design, Pattern of Data Trade and Participant
Incentive Mechanism of Data Factor”, National Natural Science Foundation of China.
Teaching
Mathematical Methods in Economics (doctoral)
Advanced Microeconomics II (doctoral)