Yongsheng Xu, Professor
Professor of Economics
Ph.D., Tulane University
Phone: 404-413-0158
E-mail: prcyyx@langate.gsu.edu
Homepage: http://www.gsu.edu/~ecoyxx/
Specialties:
Individual and Collective Choice Theory
Welfare Economics
Poverty and Inequality
Tax and Fiscal Competition
Xu's research and teaching interests include microeconomic theory, particularly individual and collective choice theory, welfare economics, and information and organization. His current work focuses on the measurement of deprivation and the standard of living, individual choice behavior, and tax and fiscal competition. He has published numerous articles in such journals as Economic Theory, International Tax and Public Finance, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Theory and Decision, and Social Choice and Welfare.
Working papers:
International Studies Program Working Paper Number 05-03
On Some Non-Equivalence Results of Ad Valorem Tax, Sally Wallace, Daoshu Wang, and Yongsheng Xu, February 2005
Rationalizability of choice functions by game trees, Yongsheng Xu (with Lin Zhou), May 2004
A new insight into three bargaining solutions in convex problems, Yongsheng Xu (with Naoki Yoshihara), April 2004
Nonconvex Bargaining Problems, by Yongsheng Xu (with Naoki Yoshihara), March 2004
Individual Choices in a Non-Consequentialist Framework: The Case of Procedures, Yongsheng Xu (with Wulf Gaertner), September 2003
On Measuring Personal Connections and the Extent of Social Networks, Yongsheng Xu (with Prasanta K. Pattanaik), July 2003
Measuring the Standard of Living: Uncertainty about Its Development, Yongsheng Xu (with Wulf Gaertner), July 2003
On Hierarchical Dictators, Yongsheng Xu, July 2003
On the Structure of Some Measures of Deprivation, Yongsheng Xu (with Achin Chakraborty and Prasanta K. Pattanaik), April 2003
Generating a Bergson-Samuelson Social Welfare Ordering from Partial Welfare Judgements, Yongsheng Xu (with Kotaro Suzumura), March 2003
