Curriculum Vitae, 2012

 

YONGSHENG XU

Address:
    Department of Economics
    Georgia State University
    PO Box 3992
    Atlanta, GA 30302-3992, U.S.A.

Telephone:
    +1 404 413 0158

Fax:
    +1 404 413 0145

Email:
yxu3@gsu.edu
 

Current and Previous Position
    2004-              Professor, Georgia State University
    1999-2004      Associate Professor, Georgia State University  
    1995-2001      Lecturer, University of Nottingham
    1998-1999      Associate Professor, Hitotsubashi University
    1994-1995      Lecturer, University of Durham
    1993-1994      Visiting Assistant Professor, Tulane University
    1992-1993      Fellow, Murphy Institute of Political Economy, Tulane University
    1991-1992      Fellow, Centre in Political Economy,Washington University

Education and Qualifications
    Lanzhou University(China),  Applied Mathematics,  B.S., July, 1985
    Tulane University, Economics, M.A., May, 1987
    Tulane University, Economics, Ph.D., May, 1992

Teaching Interests
    Microeconomics, Mathematical Economics, Public/Social Choice, Welfare Economics, Applied Game Theory, Economics and Philosophy, Public Finance

Courses Taught
    Undergraduate:  Microeconomics Principles, Macroeconomics Principles, Intermediate Microeconomics, Public Finance, General Equilibrium, Mathematical Economics, Applied Game Theory, Economics, Philosophy and Public Policy
    Graduate:  Microeconomics, Public Finance, Mathematics for Economists, General Equilibrium and Welfare Economics, Public Economics, Economics of Uncertainty, Applied Game Theory

Research Interests
    Microeconomic Theory, Welfare Economics, Social Choice, Public Economics, Information and Organization, Poverty and Inequality

Editorial Positions
    Social Choice and Welfare, Associate Editor                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

Publications and Current Researches

Books:

1.    Prasanta K. Pattanaik, Koichi Tadenuma, Yongsheng Xu and Naoki Yoshihara (eds), Rational Choice and Social Welfare: Theory and Applications, Springer-Verlag, 2008.

Research Papers (* indicates book chapters):

  1. Prasanta K. Pattanaik and Yongsheng Xu, “On Dominance and Context-Dependence in Decisions Involving Multiple Attributes”, Economics and Philosophy, forthcoming.
  2. Wulf Gaertner and Yongsheng Xu, “A General Scoring Rule”, Mathematical Social Sciences, forthcoming.
  3. Yongsheng Xu, Li Zhang and Xinye Zheng, “Cost Sharing Rules and the Efficient Provision of Public Goods”, Journal of Microeconomics, forthcoming.
  4. Yongsheng Xu, “Symmetry-based Compromise and the Nash Solution to Convex Bargaining Problems”, Economics Letters, 115, 484-486, 2012.
  5. Prasanta K. Pattanaik, Sanjay Reddy and Yongsheng Xu, “On Measuring Deprivation and Living Standards of Societies in a Multi-Attribute Framework”, Oxford Economic Papers, 64(1): 43-56, 2012.
  6. Wulf Gaertner and Yongsheng Xu, “Ranking Sets of Characteristics”, Social Choice and Welfare, 37(4): 717-728, 2011.
  7. Fang Fang Tang and Yongsheng Xu, “On Thoughtfulness and Generosity in Sequential Decisions”, Social Choice and Welfare, 37(4): 707-715, 2011.
  8. Aditi Bhattacharyya, Prassanta K. Pattanaik and Yongsheng Xu, “Choice, Internal Consistency and Rationality”,  Economics and Philosophy, 27(2), 123-149, 2011. 
  9. Clemens Puppe and Yongsheng Xu, “Essential Alternatives and Freedom Ranking”, Social Choice and Welfare, 35(4): 669-685, 2010.
  10. Yongsheng Xu and Zhen Zhong, “Single Profile of Preferences with Variable Societies: A Characterization of Simple Majority Rule”, Economics Letters, 107: 119-121, 2010.
  11. *Yongsheng Xu, “Axiomatizations of Approval Voting”, in Handbook on Approval Voting, edited by Jean-Francois Laslier and M. Remzi Sanver, Springer, New York, 2010.
  12. Mikhail I Melnik, Yongsheng Xu and James Alm, “The choice of opening prices on ebay”, The Manchester School, 77(4):  411-429, 2009. 
  13. *Prasanta K. Pattanaik and Yongsheng Xu, “Conceptions of rights and freedom in welfare economics: a re-examination”, in P. Dumouchel and R. Gotoh (eds.), Against Injustice: Ethics, Economics and the Law, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2009.
  14. *Consequentialism and Nonconsequentialism: The Axiomatic Approach, (with Kotaro Suzumura), in Handbook of Rational and Social Choice, edited by Paul Anand, Prasanta K. Pattanaik and Clemens Puppe, Oxford University Press, 2009.
  15. *Wulf Gaertner and Yongsheng Xu, “Individual choices in a non-consequentialist framework: a procedural approach”, Chapter 9, pp. 148-166, in K. Basu and R. Kanbur (eds.), Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen, Vol. I: Ethics, Welfare and Measurement, Oxford, 2009.
  16. Chiaki Hara, Tomoichi Shinotsuka, Kotaro Suzumura and Yongsheng Xu, “Continuity and egalitarianism in the evaluation of infinite utility streams”, Social Choice and Welfare, 31: 179-191, 2008.
  17. Wulf Gaertner and Yongsheng Xu, “A new class of measures of the standard of living based on functionings”, Economic Theory, 35, 201-215, 2008.
  18. Baoyun Qiao, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Yongsheng Xu, “The tradeoff between growth and equity in decentralization policy: China's experience”, Journal of Development Economics, 86, 112-128, 2008.
  19. Yongsheng Xu and Naoki Yoshihara, “The behavior of solutions to bargaining problems on the basis of solidarity”, Japanese Economic Review, 59(1), 133-138, 2008.
  20. Achin Chakraborty, Prasanta K. Pattanaik and Yongsheng Xu, “On the mean of squared deprivation gaps”, Economic Theory,  34: 181-187, 2008.
  21. *Prasanta K. Pattanaik and Yongsheng Xu, “Ordinal distance, dominance, and the measurement of diversity”, in P.K. Pattanaik, K. Tadenuma, Y. Xu and N. Yoshihara (eds.), Rational Choice and Social Welfare: Theory and Applications, Springer-Verlag, 2008.
  22. Prasanta K. Pattanaik and Yongsheng Xu, “On measuring personal connections and the extent of social networks”, Analyse & Kritik, 29(1): 290-310, 2007.
  23. Yongsheng Xu, “Norm-constrained choices”, Analyse & Kritik, 29(1): 329-339, 2007.
  24. Dinko Dimitrov, Shao Chin Sung and Yongsheng Xu, “Procedural group identification”, Mathematical Social Sciences, 54(2): 137-146, 2007.
  25. Yongsheng Xu and Lin Zhou, “Rationalizability of choice functions by game trees”, Journal of Economic Theory, 134: 548-556, 2007.
  26. Prasanta K. Pattanaik and Yongsheng Xu, “Minimal relativism, dominance, and standard of living comparisons based on functionings”, Oxford Economic Papers, 59(2): 354-374, 2007.
  27. *Yongsheng Xu, “Pareto principle and intergenerational equity: immediate impatience, universal indifference and impossibility”, Chapter 7 in Intergenerational Equity and Sustainability, John E. Roemer and Kotaro Suzumura (eds) (2007), Palgrave.
  28. Wulf Gaertner and Yongsheng Xu, “Capability as the basis for a new measure of human development”, Journal of Human Development, 7(3): 311-321, 2006.
  29. Yongsheng Xu and Naoki Yoshihara, “Alternative characterizations of three bargaining solutions for nonconvex problems”, Games and Economic Behavior 57(1): 86-92, 2006.
  30. Wulf Gaertner and Yongsheng Xu, “Procedural choice”, Economic Theory 24(2): 335-349, 2004.
  31. Kotaro Suzumura and Yongsheng Xu, “Welfarist-consequentialism, similarity of attitudes, and Arrow's general impossibility theorem”, Social Choice and Welfare 22(1): 237-251, 2004.
  32. Yongsheng Xu, “On ranking linear budget sets in terms of freedom of choice”, Social Choice and Welfare, 22(1): 281-289, 2004.
  33. Walter Bossert, Prasanta K. Pattanaik and Yongsheng Xu, “Similarity of options and the measurement of diversity”, Journal of Theoretical Politics 15: 405-421, 2003.
  34. Kotaro Suzumura and Yongsheng Xu, “Consequences, opportunities, and generalized consequentialism and non-consequentialism”, Journal of Economic Theory 111, 293-304, 2003.
  35. Kotaro Suzumura and Yongsheng Xu, “Recoverability of choice functions and binary relations: some duality results”, Social Choice and Welfare 21: 21-37, 2003.
  36. Indranil Dutta, Prasanta K. Pattanaik and Yongsheng Xu, “On measuring multi-dimensional deprivation on the basis of aggregate data”, Economica 70: 197-221, 2003.
  37. Yongsheng Xu, “On ranking compact and comprehensive opportunity sets”, Mathematical Social Sciences 45(2): 109-119, 2003.
  38. Kotaro Suzumura and Yongsheng Xu, “On constrained dual recoverability theorems”, Mathematical Social Sciences  45(2): 143-154, 2003.
  39. Yongsheng Xu, “Functioning, capability and the standard of living-an axiomatic approach”, Economic Theory 20(2): 387-399, 2002.
  40. Kotaro Suzumura and Yongsheng Xu, “Characterizaitons of consequentialism and non-consequentialism”, Journal of Economic Theory 101(2): 423-436, 2001.
  41. Prasanta K. Pattanaik and Yongsheng Xu, “On ranking opportunity sets in economic environments”, Journal of Economic Theory 93(1): 48-71, 2000.
  42. Walter Bossert, Prasanta K. Pattanaik and Yongsheng Xu, “Choice under complete uncertainty: characterization of some decision rules”, Economic Theory 16(2): 295-312, 2000.
  43. Prasanta K. Pattanaik and Yongsheng Xu, “On diversity and freedom of choice”, Mathematical Social Sciences  40(2): 123-130, 2000.
  44. Yongsheng Xu, “Non-discrimination and the Pareto principle”, The Economic Review 51(1): 54-60, 2000.
  45. Wulf Gaertner and Yongsheng Xu, “On the structure of choice under different external references”, Economic Theory 14: 609-620, 1999.
  46. Wulf Gaertner and Yongsheng Xu, “On rationalizability of choice functions: a characterization of the median”, Social Choice and Welfare 16(4): 629-638, 1999.
  47. Wulf Gaertner and Yongsheng Xu, “Rationality and external reference”, Rationality and Society 11: 169-185, 1999.
  48. Yongsheng Xu, “Rejection of unfair alternatives and the egalitarian solution”, Journal of Lanzhou University (Natural Sciences) 35 (3): 208-213, 1999.
  49. Prasanta K. Pattanaik and Yongsheng Xu, “On preference and freedom”,  Theory and Decision 44: 173-198,  1998.
  50. Wulf Gaertner and Yongsheng Xu, “Optimization and external reference: a comparison of three linear axiomatic systems”, Economics Letters 57: 57-62, 1997.
  51. David Malueg and Yongsheng Xu, “Endogenous information quality: a job-assignment application”, Zeitschrift fur Nationalokonomie/Journal of Economics 65: 163-180, 1997.
  52. William Oakland and Yongsheng Xu, “Double taxation and tax deduction: a comparison”, International Tax and Public Finance 3: 45-56, 1996.
  53. *Yongsheng Xu, “Non-binary social choice: a brief introduction”, Chapter 4 in Collective Decision-Making: Social Choice and Political Economy, N. Schofield (ed.) (1996), Kluwer Academic Publishers: Dordrecht, the Netherlands.
  54. Walter Bossert, Prasanta K. Pattanaik and Yongsheng Xu, “Ranking opportunity sets: an axiomatic approach”, Journal of Economic Theory 63(2): 326-345, August 1994.
  55. Nick Baigent and Yongsheng Xu, “Independent, necessary and sufficient conditions for approval voting”, Mathematical Social Sciences 21: 21-29, 1991. 
  56. Prasanta K. Pattanaik and Yongsheng Xu, “On ranking opportunity sets in terms of freedom of choice”, Recherches Economiques de Louvain 56: 383-390, 1990.  Reprinted in Freedom: a Philosophical Anthology edited by I. Carter, H. Kramer and H. Steiner, Blackwell: Oxford, 2007.
  57. Irving LaValle and Yongsheng Xu, “Information evaluation under nonadditive expected utility, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 3: 261-275, 1990.
  58. Yongsheng Xu, “The libertarian paradox: some further observations”, Social Choice and Welfare 7: 343-351, 1990.
  59. Yongsheng Xu, “Population evaluation functions: axiomatisation of two utilitarian principles”, Mathematical Social Sciences 20: 91-98, 1990.