Hao Yu
email: Hao.Yu@glasgow.ac.uk
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6857-3380
Research title: Essays about Contest Theory and Surplus Sharing
Research summary
Microeconomic Theory, Contest Theory, Applied Game Theory, Revenue Sharing, Mechanism Design.
Publications
2026
Yu, Hao 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6857-3380
(2026)
On click-fraud under pro-rata revenue sharing rule.
Economic Theory Bulletin, 14(1),
8.
(doi: 10.1007/s40505-026-00308-5)
YU, HAO ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6857-3380 and Liu, Chang
(2026)
Early‐life hunger experience and dietary behaviors in adulthood: evidence from the Great Chinese Famine.
Review of Development Economics,
(doi: 10.1111/RODE.70117)
(Early Online Publication)
2025
Yu, Hao ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6857-3380
(2025)
Contest success functions with(out) headstarts.
ArXiv,
(doi: 10.48550/ARXIV.2508.12934)
Articles
Yu, Hao ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6857-3380
(2026)
On click-fraud under pro-rata revenue sharing rule.
Economic Theory Bulletin, 14(1),
8.
(doi: 10.1007/s40505-026-00308-5)
YU, HAO ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6857-3380 and Liu, Chang
(2026)
Early‐life hunger experience and dietary behaviors in adulthood: evidence from the Great Chinese Famine.
Review of Development Economics,
(doi: 10.1111/RODE.70117)
(Early Online Publication)
Yu, Hao ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6857-3380
(2025)
Contest success functions with(out) headstarts.
ArXiv,
(doi: 10.48550/ARXIV.2508.12934)
Prior publications
Works published at other institutions
Article
Hao Yu (2026) On click-fraud under pro-rata revenue sharing rule Hao Yu. (doi: 10.48550/ARXIV.2601.09573)
Supervisors
Grants
MRes/PhD Economics Scholarship, 2024--2028.
Conferences
2026: Microtheory Internal Seminar (Glasgow, UK).
2023: 7th China Labor Economist Forum Annul Conference (Hangzhou, China); 9th Camphor Economist Circle (CEC) Seminar (Hefei, China).
2022: 14th CAER-IFPRI Annul Conference (Wuhan, China).
Teaching
Senior undergraduate level:
- ECON4020 Microeconomic Analysis: General Equilibrium, Public Decision and Information. Fall 2025.
- ECON4050 Collective Welfare and Distributive Justice. Spring 2025, 2026.
- ECON4053 Game Theory for Economists. Spring 2025, 2026.
Master level:
- ECON5161 Microeconomics 2 (Information and Mechanism Design Part). Spring 2026.
