About
Jian Tong is a Lecturer based in School of Economic, Social and Political Sciences at the University of Southampton.
Jian’s research activities focus on industrial organisation, economic growth, and information economics. Jian’s expertise lies in the areas of market structure and market power, technological progress, and endogenous economic growth, and public policy decision under uncertainty and information constraints.
Jian’s current responsibilities include research, teaching and administrative roles at the Department of Economics, University of Southampton.
Jian currently serves as an Associate Editor for the European Economic Review.
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Research
Research interests
- Industrial Organisation
- Economic Growth
- Information Economics
- Competition Policy
- Regulation
Current research
Jian’s current research focuses on two themes: The first is on theoretical and empirical studies of firm heterogeneity in productivity, product and labour market powers. It extends the Solow residual approach to firm level multiple factor productivity (MFP), taking into account imperfect competition in both product and labour markets, as well as strategic interaction between competing firms. This novel approach allows joint estimation of firm level productivity, and pricing powers in both product and labour markets.
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Supervision
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Teaching
Jian’s areas of expertise are Industrial Organisation (Economics), at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels (ECON2005 and ECON6008). Jian has also taught Microeconomics at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Jian is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
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Biography
I am a lecturer of Economics at the University of Southampton. I earned my PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics in 2002. My research interests lie in the fields of industrial organization, economic growth and information economics. My papers have been published in leading economics journals such as the Rand Journal of Economics, the Economic Journal, and International Economic Review. I am currently serving as an Associate Editor for the European Economic Review.
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