Botao Qin - University of Wyoming

Botao Qin
September, 2014
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https://sites.google.com/site/botaoqin/
Placement Director: Dr. Klaas Van`t Veld
[email protected],
307-766-3143
Office Contact Information
Home Contact Information
Department of Economics and Finance,
University of Wyoming
1000 E. University Ave. Laramie, WY 82071
2024 Binford ST., Apt.623
Laramie, WY, 82072
Phone: 307-399-0098
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Economics, University of Wyoming (Expected Completion: December, 2014)
Dissertation: Essays on Social Norms and Mechanism Design in Environmental Economics
Committee: Jason F. Shogren (Chair), David Aadland, David Finnoff, Thorsten Janus, Mariah Ehmke
M.S. in Economics, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China. 2004-2007.
(Advisor: Daigee Shaw, Academia Sinica, Taipei)
B.E. in Thermal and Power Engineering, Minor in Chinese/English Business program,
Xi’an Jiaotong University, China. 2000-2004.
RESEARCH AND TEACHING FIELDS
Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Experimental/Behavioral Economics, Industrial
Organization, Applied Microeconomics
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Wyoming:
Spring 2014
Instructor, Managerial Economics (Pre-MBA)
 Instructor quality: 4.17/5, Department average: 3.5
Fall 2013
Teaching Assistant for Prof. Sasha Skiba, Principles of Macroeconomics,
2011-12
Teaching Assistant for Prof. Ben Gilbert, Intermediate Microeconomics,
Mathematical Economics, Principles of Microeconomics
2010-11
Teaching Assistant for Prof. John Tschirhart, Advanced Microeconomic
Analysis, Advanced Mathematical Economics (Ph.D. courses)
2009-10
Teaching Assistant for Prof. Sasha Skiba, Principles of Macroeconomics,
RELEVANT POSITIONS
Spring 2011
Research Assistant for Professor David, Finnoff, University of Wyoming.
2008 –2009
Senior Research Assistant for Prof. Jintao Xu, Environmental Economics Program
in China, Peking University, Beijing, China
2007-2008
Associate Auditor, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Beijing, China
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2006.5-6
Exchange Student, National Taipei University, Taipei
SCHOLARSHIPS, HONORS AND AWARDS
2013-2014
2011-2012
Joseph C. and Katherine A. Drew Fellowship
John C. and Esther L. Clay Graduate Fellowship in Business;
Curtis A. Cramer Scholarships for Excellence in Economics Graduate Education;
Joseph C. and Katherine A. Drew Fellowship;
Joe H. and Arlene Watt Fellowship.
2012, 2013, 2014 Summer Research Grant
2005
Excellent Graduate Student Scholarship, Xi’an Jiaotong University
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Presenter
Brownbag seminar, Laramie, University of Wyoming, October, 2013;
CU Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop, Vail, Colorado, September 12th, 2014;
Heartland Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop at Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois,
November 1st, 2014 (scheduled).
REFERRED PUBLICATIONS
Qin, B., Shaffer, S., 2014. A Test of Competition in Chinese Banking Industry. Applied Economics Letters
21(9), 602-604.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Qin, B., Bai, X. and Xu, F., 2006. The Equivalence of Managerial Delegation and Transfer Pricing under
A Duopoly (in Chinese). 2006 International Conference on Management Knowledge and Global Economy,
Gaoxiong, Taiwan, p581-594.
WORKING PAPERS
“Endogenous Social Norms, Mechanism Design, and Payment for Environmental Services” (Job Market
Paper)
Abstract: this paper studies the optimal contract design when social norms have an emotional cost on
landowners’ participation in payment for environmental services programs. We find a regulator can use
less powerful monetary incentives to induce landowners to retire more land than when the regulator neglects
the social norm. As a benchmark, we study when the social norm is exogenous and there is asymmetric
information about landowners’ personal norms. We find the high-personal norm landowners will retire the
optimal land and the low-personal norm landowners will retire less than the optimal land. When there is
asymmetric information about landowners’ sensitivities to the social norm, the optimal contract design
depends on landowners’ perception of the social norm with respect to their personal norms. Finally, we
argue the social norm can be endogenously determined by landowners as they usually live in small villages.
We find the optimal contract can be to induce both types of landowners to retire more than the optimal land.
“Preference Elicitation with Oath under A Random Nth Price Auction” with Jason F. Shogren, Nicolas
Jacquemet, and Stephane Luchini.
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“Social norms and dynamic incentive contract in payment for environmental services” with Jason F.
Shogren.
“Regulation, endogenous social norms and environmental risk” with Thorsten Janus, and Jason Shogren
“A Test of crowding out effect with dictator game” with Alisa S. Puchkova, Yang Lu, and Jason F. Shogren.
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
“Eco-labeling and Environmental Policy with Noisy Certification Test” with Thorsten Janus
“Climate change and conflict: the case of China”
OTHER TRAINING
Conjoint and Discrete Choice Modeling Workshop, University of Wyoming, 5.27-5.30, 2014.
SOFTWARE SKILS
Gauss, Stata, SAS, Mathematica, Z-Tree
REFEREE
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Economic Association
Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Gender: Male
Language: English (fluent), Chinese (native).
REFERENCES
Prof. Jason F. Shogren (Committee Chair)
Department of Economics and Finance
University of Wyoming
307.766.5430
[email protected]
Prof. Sherrill Shaffer
Department of Economics and Finance
University of Wyoming
307.766.2173
[email protected]
Prof. David Aadland (Committee member)
Department of Economics and Finance
University of Wyoming
307.766.4931
[email protected]
Prof. Thorsten Janus (Committee member)
Department of Economics and Finance
University of Wyoming
307.766.3384
[email protected]
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