Jim Jin

School of Economics and Finance

The University of St Andrews

Education

Ph.D. in Economics: Purdue University, USA 1992

MS in Economics: Purdue University, USA 1990

MA in Economics: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA 1988

BS in Physics: Ocean University of China, China 1982

Current Position

Senior lecturer

Previous Employment

Lecturer in Economics, the Queen’s University of Belfast 1999-2002

Research Fellow, Science Centre Berlin for Social Studies 1992-1999

Lecturer in Physics, Dalian Aquatic School, China 1982-1986

Publications in Journals:

(1) Information Sharing through Sales Report, 1994, Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol. XLII, No. 3, pp 323-334

(2) Reconciliation of Unemployment-New Firm Startup Paradox (with D. Audretsch), 1994, Small Business Economics, Vol. 6, pp 381-385

(3) Innovation Announcement with Vertical Differentiation, 1995, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 28, pp 399-408

(4) A Test for Information Sharing in Cournot Oligopoly, 1996, Information Economics and Policy, Vol. 8, pp 75-86

(5) Information Sharing about a Demand Shock, 1998, Journal of Economics, Vol. 68, No. 2, pp 137-152

(6) Demand-Induced Endogenous Price Leadership (with R. Amir and I. Grilo), 1999, International Game Theory Review, Vol. 1, pp 219-240

(7) Sequencing R&D Decisions in a Two-Period Duopoly with Spillovers, (with M. Amir and R. Amir), 2000, Economic Theory, Vol. 15, pp 297-318

(8) A Comment on “A General Model of Information Sharing”, 2000, Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 93, pp 144-145

(9) Cournot and Bertrand Equilibria Compared (with R. Amir), 2001, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 19, pp 144-145

(10) Monopolistic Competition and Bounded Rationality, 2001, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 45, pp 175-184

(11) Strategic Cost Reduction and Cost Revelation, 2001, German Economic Review, Vol. 2, pp 99-111

(12) Public Information and Cost Reduction (with M. Troege), 2002, Journal of Economics, Vol. 75, pp 227-237

(13) Learning by doing, spillovers and shakeouts (with J. Perote-Peña and M. Troege), 2004, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Vol. 14, pp. 85-98

(14) R&D competition and endogenous spillovers (with M. Troege), 2006, Manchester School of Economics, Vol. 74, pp. 44-51

(15) On Additive Spillovers and Returns to Scale in R&D (with R. Amir and M. Troege), 2008, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 26, pp. 695-703

(16) Firm-level Social Return to Education (with P. Martins), 2010, Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 23, pp. 539-558

(17) Asymmetric Duopoly under Different Market Structures (with O. Parcero), 2010, International Journal of Business and Economics, Vol. 9, pp. 45-56

(18) Robust Results on the Sharing of Firm-Specific Information: Incentive and Welfare Effects (with R. Amir and M. Troege), forthcoming in Journal of Mathematical Economics,

(19) R&D-Induced Industry Polarization and Shakeouts (with R. Amir and C. Halmenschlager), forthcoming in International Journal of Industrial Organization.

Publications in books:

(1) Innovation and Sales Data Exchange, 1996, in Collusion through Information Sharing? by Albach, Jin, Schenk (eds.) Berlin: Edition Sigma

(2) Poverty Orderings for the Dalton Utility-Gap Measures (with J. Foster), in the Distribution of Welfare and Household Production by Jenkins, Kapteyn and van Praag (eds.) Cambridge University Press 1998

Book edited:

Collusion through Information Sharing? (with H. Albach and C. Schenk) Berlin: Edition Sigma 1996

Working papers:

(1) Progressive Tax of A Flat Tax? (with Felix FitzRoy)

(2) Efficient Redistribution: Comparing Basic Income with Unemployment Benefit (with Felix FitzRoy)

(3) Flat Tax Is Optimal for the Poorest (with Felix FitzRoy)

(4) Price and Deadweight Loss in Multi-Product Monopoly (with R. Amir, G. Pech and M. Troege)

(5) Ramsey Taxation in Imperfect Competition (with R. Amir and L. Lasselle)

(6) A Proposal of Global GHG Tax and Universal Compensation (with S. Kobayashi)