經濟學系

教學人員/行政人員

張天樂教授

 BSc (Sun Yat-sen); MSc (HKUST); PhD (Colorado)

  • Professor, Department of Economics
  • Acting Director of the Creative and Cultural Innovation Research Institute (CCIRI) (Qianhai)
  • Director, Master of Science in International Banking and Finance (MIBF), Department of Economics
  • Director, Master of Science in International and Development Economics (MIDE), Department of Economics 

Professor Tianle Zhang is a professor in the Department of Economics at Lingnan University. His research focuses on Industrial Organization and Competition Policy. Professor Zhang has published in leading academic journals, including RAND Journal of Economics, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Economic Journal, International Economic Review, Management Science, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, and International Journal of Industrial Organization, among others. He has received multiple research grants from the HKSAR Government and serves as an associate editor of International Journal of Industrial Organization.

 

Personal Website

Recent Publications:

  1. ZHANG Tianle, with Yiran Cao, Ping Lin, “Upstream Killer Acquisitions and Market Structure”, Economic Modelling, 2026, Vol. 163.
  2. General Research Fund (GRF) - "Customer Data, Privacy and Search", AY2022-23
  3. General Research Fund (GRF) -“Consumer Search and Product Liability”, Jan 2020- Dec 2022
  4. ZHANG Tinale, "Consumer Search, Repeated Purchase and Price Discrimination”, funded by LU Research Committee, Faculty Research Grant, HKD49,500, 1 Jun 2022 to 31 May 2024
  5. ZHANG Tianle, with Lok Sang Ho, Chun Tak Kwok, Kam Pui Wat, Francisco T.T. Lai and Spencer Li,  “Financing Orphan Drugs through a Blockchain-supported Insurance Model", Frontiers in Blockchain,  2022, Vol. 5.
  6. ZHANG Tianle, with Ping Lin, "Product Liability, Multidimensional R&D and Innovation", Journal of Economics, 2022 Vol. 136, p.25–45.
  7. ZHANG Tianle, with Yongmin Chen and Zhuozheng Li, "Experience Goods and Consumer Search" , American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2022, Vol. 14 (3), pp.591-621.
  8. ZHANG Tinale, with Yucheng Ding, "Advance Selling Programs: When to Introduce and What to Inform Consumers", Managerial and Decision Economics, 2022, Vol. 43 (3), pp.779-790.
  9. ZHANG Tianle, with Ping Lin and Wen Zhou, "Vertical Integration and Disruptive Cross-market R&D", Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2020, Vol. 29 (1), p. 51-73.
  10. ZHANG Tinale, with Yucheng Ding, "Price-directed Consumer Search", International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2018, Vol. 58 p.106-135.
  11. ZHANG Tianle, with  Yongmin Chen, "Intermediaries and Consumer Search", International Journal of Industrial Organization, (EARIE Special Issue),2018, Vol. 57, p.255-277.
  12. ZHANG Tianle, with Yongmin Chen, "Entry and Welfare in Search Markets" , Economic Journal, 2018, Vol. 128, p.55-88. 
  13. ZHANG Tianle, with Yongmin Chen, "Interpersonal Bundling", Management Science, 2015, Vol. 61, pp.1456-1471.
  14. ZHANG Tianle, with Yongmin Chen, "Equilibrium Price Dispersion with Heterogeneous Searchers", International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2011, Vol. 29, pp.645-654.
  15.  ZHANG Tianle, with Yongmin Chen and Shiyuan Pan, "Patentability, R&D Direction, and Cumulative Innovation", International Economic Review, 2018, Vol. 59, 1969-1993.
  16. ZHANG Tianle, with Yongmin Chen and Shiyuan Pan, “(When) Do Stronger Patents Increase Continual Innovation?”, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2014, Vol. 98, p.115–124. 
  17. ZHANG Tianle, “Patenting in the Shadow of Independent Discoveries by Rivals.” International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2012, Vol. 30, 41-49.
  18. ZHANG Tianle, with Lok Sang Ho, “Tax Reform for a Fairer, More Vibrant Economy," Modern Economy,  2016,  Vol. 07, 881-893.

Selected Working Papers and Work-in-progress: 

  1. ZHANG Tianle, with Yiran Cao and Ping Lin, "Upstream Killer Acquisitions and Market Structure", working paper, 2023
  2. ZHANG Tianle, with Yiran Cao, Yongmin Chen and Yucheng Ding, "Search and Competition in Expert Markets", working paper, 2023
  3. ZHANG Tinale, "Consumer Search, Repeated Purchase and Price Discrimination”, funded by LU Research Committee, Faculty Research Grant, HKD49,500, 1 Jun 2022 to 31 May 2024
  4. ZHANG Tianle, with Yongmin Chen and Zhuozheng Li, "Consumer Search with Repeated Purchase", working paper, 2021.
  5. ZHANG Tianle,with Yongmin Chen, and Michael Riordan, " Security and Connectivity" , work-in-progress.
  1. CLA9010    Social Problem Solving and Decision Making in the Modern World
  2. ECO3104    Tools for Economic Analysis
  3. ECO4316   Industrial Economics and  Competition Policy (
  4. IBF621    Behavioral Finance
  5. IDE518    Industrial Economics and Policy
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