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
Hao's research focuses on microeconomic theory and its applications.
Research interests:
- Mechanism design
- Surplus sharing and rationing methods
- Social choice
- Contest theory
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)
Supervisors
Grants
- MRes/PhD Economics Scholarship. CoSS, University of Glasgow. 2024--2028.
- IWGTEA financial support. FEA, University of São Paulo. 2026.
- Global Mobility Fellowships. HIM, University of Bonn. 2026.
Conferences
2026: Microtheory Internal Seminar (Glasgow, UK); Coalition Theory Network Conference [best student paper] (Padova, Italy); Conference on Mechanism and Institution Design (York, UK); International Workshop on Game Theory and Economic Applications (São Paulo, Brazil).
2024: Conference of Chinese Women Economists [co-author] (Wuhan, China); CAER-IFPRI Annul Conference [co-author] (Changsha, China).
2023: Annul Conference of China Labor Economist Forum (Hangzhou, China); Camphor Economist Circle Seminar (Hefei, China).
2022: CAER-IFPRI Annul Conference (Wuhan, China).
Teaching
Senior undergraduate level:
- ECON4020 Microeconomic Analysis: General Equilibrium, Public Decision and Information. Fall 2025. 2026.
- ECON4050 Collective Welfare and Distributive Justice. Spring 2025, 2026.
- ECON4053 Game Theory for Economists. Spring 2025, 2026.
Master level:
- ECON5161 Microeconomics 2 (Information Economics and Mechanism Design). Spring 2026.
Additional information
Referee: Games and Economic Behavior; Economic Theory; China Agricultural Economic Review.
