Email: phau_at_ntu_dot_edu_dot_sg
aupakhung_at_gmail_dot_com

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EMPLOYMENT

2013-present: Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University
2012-2013: Assistant Professor, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA, 2012
M.A., Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA, 2007
B.A., Mathematics and Economics (Double Honours), University of British Columbia, Canada, 2006

PUBLICATIONS
"Price Reaction and Disagreement over Public Signal" Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol 130, pages 81-106 (2016).
"Deal or no Deal? The Effect of Alcohol Drinking on Bargaining" (with Jipeng Zhang) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol 127, pages 70-86 (2016). 
​“Effect of Weather Conditions and Weather Forecast on Cycling Travel Behavior in Singapore” (with Meng Meng, Jie Zhang, and Yiik Diew Wong), International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, vol 10, issue 9, pages 773-780 (2016).
“Dynamic Information Disclosure”, RAND Journal of Economics, Vol 46, issue 4, pages 791–823 (2015).
“Media Capture and Information Monopolization in Japan” (with Keiichi Kawai), Japanese Economic Review, vol. 63, issue 1, pages 131-147 (2012).
“Sequentially Rationalizable Choice with Transitive Rationales” (with Keiichi Kawai), Games and Economic Behavior, vol.73, issue 2, pages 608-614 (2011).

WORKING PAPERS

"Pay to Quit and Team Incentives" conditionally accepted at Journal of European Economic Association
“Negotiated Block Trade, Rebuilding of Trust, and Endogenous Cost of Corporate Control” (with Yuk-fai Fong and Jin Li) R&R International Economic Review
"The Loser's Curse in the Search for Advice" R&R Theoretical Economics
"Competitive Disclosure of Correlated Information" (with Keiichi Kawai) R&R Economic Theory
"Competitive Information Disclosure by Multiple Senders" (with Keiichi Kawai) R&R Games and Economic Behavior
“Optimality of Quota Contract” (with Keiichi Kawai)
"A Model of Trade with Endogenous Product Design" (with Xiaoping Chen)
"Competition in Designing Pandora's Boxes"

RESEARCH GRANTS

CoHASS Incentive Scheme (2014-2016)
Sustainable Earth Office Award (2014-2015) 
Start-up Grant, Nanyang Technological University (2013-2016)
Start-up Grant, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (2012-2013)

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

Double First Class Honors in Mathematics and Economics, University of British Columbia, 2006.
Governor General’s Silver Medal, University of British Columbia, 2006.
University Fellow in the Graduate School, Northwestern University, 2006.
Distinction in Preliminary Exams in Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, and Econometrics, Economics Department, Northwestern University, 2007.
Dissertation-Year Fellowship, Northwestern University, 2011-2012.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Nanyang Technological University
Instructor, Intermediate Microeconomics (Undergraduate), 2016, 2018 
Instructor, Information Economics (Undergraduate), 2013-2015
Instructor, Industrial Organization (Undergraduate), 2014-2018

Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Instructor, Game Theory and Information Economics (Undergraduate), 2012

Northwestern University
Teaching Assistant, Microeconomics (Intermediate and Doctoral Level), 2007-2008
Teaching Assistant, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (Undergraduate), 2009
Teaching Assistant, Strategy and Organization (Kellogg MBA), 2009-2010

REFEREE ACTIVITIES

Economic Theory, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Pacific Economic Review, RAND Journal of Economics, Singapore Economic Review

CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS

2017: Nanyang Business School, HKUST

2016: Workshop on Industrial Organization and Management Strategy (HKUST), China Meeting of Econometric Society, Asian Meeting of Econometric Society, City University of Hong Kong, Chinese University of Hong Kong

2015: Sun Yat-sen University, World Congress of Econometric Society, Singapore Joint Economic Theory Workshop, Shanghai Microeconomics Workshop, Singapore Economic Review Conference, University of New South Wales, University of Technology Sydney, NTU-Hiroshima Joint Economic Workshop, Nanyang Technological University, National University of Singapore, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics

2014: Nanyang Business School

2013: Nanyang Technological University, National University of Singapore, Singapore Economic Review Conference, Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society, Australasian Economic Theory Workshop