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M I N G G A O School of Economics and Management E-mail: [email protected] Tsinghua University Tel: +86 (0) 10 6279 3163 Beijing, 100084 Fax: +86 (0) 10 6278 5562 China Web: www.sem.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/gaom

EMPLOYMENT 2010 - present Assistant Professor of Economics, School of Economics and Management (SEM) Tsinghua University Beijing, China Research interests: Industrial Organization, Pricing Theory, and Behavioral Economics

EDUCATION 2010 PhD in Economics, London Business School London, UK Supervisors: Prof. Jean-Pierre Benoît and Prof. Leonard Waverman 2007 Master of Research, London Business School London, UK 2003 Master of Quantitative Economics, Ranked 1st in Class, Tsinghua University 2001 Bachelor of Economics, Distinction, Tsinghua University Beijing, China

PUBLISHED RESEARCH PAPER [1] Ming Gao, “Platform Pricing in Mixed Two-sided Markets”, International Economic Review, forthcoming. [2] Ming Gao, Mingzhi Li, “Strategies for Developing China’s Software Industry”, Journal of Information Technologies and International Development, 2003, 1(1), 61-73, MIT Press

WORKING PAPER [3] Ming Gao, “Multi-Seller Membership Pricing”, 2017 [4] Ming Gao, Travis Ng, “Non-Price Discrimination by a Prejudiced Platform”, 2016 [5] Ming Gao, Qining Yu, “Probabilistic Selling to Certainty-Biased Consumers”, 2015 [6] Ming Gao, “Multiproduct Price Discrimination with Two-Part Tariffs”, 2015 [7] Ming Gao, “When to Allow Buyers to Sell? Bundling in Mixed Two-Sided Markets”, 2015 [8] Ming Gao, “A Quasi-Cumulative Weighting Function for Prospect Theory: The (β; c) Model”, 2015

WORK IN PROGRESS [9] Ming Gao, “Profiting from Consumer Sophistication of Certainty Bias: Business and Policy Implications” [10]Ming Gao, “Free Gift as a Profitable Pricing Strategy”

Apr 2017 1 of 5 PUBLISHED BOOK TRANSLATION [11]Ming Gao, “Game Theory in International Economics”, by John McMillan, Chinese translation, 2004, Peking University Press (ISBN 7-301-06710-0/F.0724) [12]Ming Gao, Mingzhi Li, Bin Wang, “Principles of Economics (6th edition)”, by Karl E. Case & Ray C. Fair, Chinese translation, 2003, Tsinghua University Press (ISBN 7-302- 06539-X/F.517) (with three other translators)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2011 - present Main Lecturer, Managerial Economics (English) (Tsinghua-MIT Global/International MBA Programme), Tsinghua University, SEM Awarded “Tsinghua Fine Course Collection (Post-Graduate)” in 2012 2011 - present Main Lecturer, Theory of Industrial Organization (English) (undergraduate), Tsinghua University, SEM Students’ evaluation: 96.35/100 (university-wide average: 92.95, SEM average: 93.10) Excellent Teaching Awards 2010 and 2012 (Grade II), Tsinghua SEM 2010 - 2015 Main Lecturer, Economics Thesis Writing (Chinese) (undergraduate), Tsinghua University, SEM May 2011 Main Lecturer, Managerial Economics (Chinese), Executive Development Programme, Tsinghua University, SEM Students’ evaluation: 4.4/5.0 2009 Seminar Teacher, Masters in Management Program, London Business School Course: Applied Microeconomics Main Lecturer: Jean-Pierre Benoît Students’ evaluation: 4.03/5.0 2008-2009 Teaching Assistant, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business China CEO Program Course: Corporate Finance Main Lecturer: Julian Franks Course: Macroeconomics Main Lecturer: Andrew Scott 2008-2009 Class Tutor, MBA, EMBA and Sloan Programs, London Business School Course: Business Statistics Main Lecturer: K. Fridgeirsdottir and Catalina Stefanescu Students’ evaluation: 4.00/5.0 2006-2009 Teaching Assistant, MBA, EMBA-Global, Sloan Programs, London Business School Course: Managerial Economics Main Lecturer: Jean-Pierre Benoît, Emeric Henry and Marco Ottaviani Course: Managerial Economics & Competitive Strategy Main Lecturer: Jean-Pierre Benoît and Leonard Waverman Course: Thinking Strategically Main Lecturer: Jean-Pierre Benoît Course: Sustanability Main Lecturer: Jean-Pierre Benoît and Dominic Houlder 2002-2003 School of Economics & Management, Tsinghua University Beijing, China Teaching Assistant, Tsinghua-MIT Joint International MBA Program

Apr 2017 2 of 5 Course: Microeconomics of Competitiveness Main Lecturer: Mingzhi Li (A partner course of Prof. Michael Porter’s at Harvard Business School) 2002 Shanghai Pudong Development (Group) Co., Ltd. Shanghai, China Teaching Assistant and Interpreter, Summer EMBA Program Course: Corporate Finance (II) Main Lecturer: N. K. Chidambaran Course: Executive Perspective Main Lecturer: James Biteman

RESEARCH GRANT 2012 - present Tsinghua University Initiative Scientific Research Program 2013 - 2015 National Natural Science Foundation of China 2013 - 14 Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, State Education Ministry, China

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2007-2009 Research Assistant for Emeric Henry and Margaret Kyle, London Business School Partook in data processing of “Licensing Activities of Pharmaceutical Companies” 2000-2003 Research Assistant, Intel-Tsinghua E-Business Laboratory, Tsinghua University “ China and World ICT Industry”, jointly with Prof. Mingzhi Li from SEM, Tsinghua “Developing Sustainable B2B E-Commerce Scenarios in the Chinese Context”, jointly with Prof. Kai Reimers from RWTH Aachen University, Germany 2000 Summer Research Project Team Leader, Ministry of Finance, China “Development of Western China: with Focus on Yunnan Province” 1999 Summer Research Project Research Assistant, Ministry of Finance, China “ Development of Socialized Service System for Agriculture in Guangdong Province” 1998 Summer Research Project Research Assistant, Tsinghua Youth League, China “ Status Quo of Laid-off Workers from State-Owned Enterprises: The Case of Zhejiang Province”

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2004-2005 Zhongguancun High-Tech Industry Development Center Beijing, China Researcher/Economist of Investment & Financial Service Department Co-author of Review and Revision of “The Gazelle Program” (the foremost government fund in China for hi-tech start-ups), reported to the governor of Administrative Committee of Zhongguancun Science Park (a bureau of the Municipal Government of Beijing) 2003 Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB) Beijing, China Researcher of Case Center Partook in original case writing (strategy and management)

HONOR 2015 Best Paper Award (solo winner), China Industrial Economics Research Annual Apr 2017 3 of 5 Conference 2012 “Managerial Economics” awarded “Tsinghua Fine Course Collection (Post- Graduate)”, Tsinghua University 2012 Excellent Teaching Award (Grade II), SEM, Tsinghua University 2010 Excellent Teaching Award (Grade II), SEM, Tsinghua University 2005-2009 PhD Programme Financial Award, London Business School 2002 Citibank First Grade Scholarship, Tsinghua University (top 1%) 2001 Tsinghua University Excellent Graduate Honor (Distinction) 1998-2000 Tsinghua Annual Scholarships 1998 Champion of the 1st Tsinghua Enterprise Management Contest 1997 Tsinghua Best Freshman Scholarship (top 0.05% in the National University Entrance Exam) 1993 Gold Medal of the Hope Cup National Mathematics Contest for High School Students, China 1991 Bronze Medal of the National Hua Luo-geng Gold Cup Mathematics Contest for Youth, China

SEMINAR, CONFERENCE PRESENTATION AND ACADEMIC VISIT Apr 2017 Royal Economic Society Annual Conference, Bristol, UK Nov 2016 Seminar at University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China Aug 2016 EconWorld2016, Imperial College, London, UK Jun 2016 International Conference on Innovation and Industrial Economics, Nanjing, China Jun 2016 Workshop on Industrial Organization and Management Strategy (IOMS), HKUST, Hong Kong Apr 2016 14th Annual International Industrial Organization Conference (IIOC), Philadelphia, USA Mar 2016 9th bi-annual Postal Economics Conference on “E-commerce, Digital Economy and Delivery Services”, Toulouse School of Economics, France Dec 2015 China Industrial Economics Research Annual Conference, Beijing, China (Best Paper Award) Dec 2015 Seminar at School of Economics, Peking University, Beijing, China Oct 2015 Seminars at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics Jun 2015 6th Annual Conference on Internet Search and Innovation, Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, USA May 2015 Visit to DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, Canada Apr 2015 13th Annual International Industrial Organization Conference (IIOC), Boston, USA Apr 2015 6th Workshop on the Economics of ICTs, University of Évora, Portugal

Apr 2017 4 of 5 Dec 2014 Workshop on Industrial Organization and Management Strategy (IOMS), University of Hong Kong Aug 2014 41st Annual Conference of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE), Milan, Italy Jun 2014 3rd Workshop on Industrial Organization: Theory, Empirics and Experiments, Alberobello, Italy Jun 2014 Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society (AMES2014), Taipei May 2014 American Law and Economics Association Annual Conference, Chicago, USA Apr 2014 Royal Economic Society Annual Conference, Manchester, UK Jun 2013 Tsinghua Conference on Theoretical and Behavioral Economics, Beijing, China Aug 2011 Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society (AMES2011), Seoul, Korea July 2011 16th World Congress of the International Economic Association (IEA), Beijing, China Aug 2010 10th Econometric Society World Congress (ESWC2010), Shanghai, China July 2010 Second Brazilian Workshop of the Game Theory Society (BWGT), São Paulo, Brazil June 2010 Foundations and Applications of Utility, Risk and Decision Theory (FUR) XIV International Conference 2010, Newcastle University, England May 2010 8th Annual International Industrial Organization Conference (IIOC), UBC, Vancouver, Canada Sep 2009 36th Annual Conference of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE), Ljubljana, Slovenia June 2009 La Pietra-Mondragone Doctoral Workshop, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Moncalieri, Torino, Italy June 2009 ECORE Summer School on Market Evolution and Public Decision, Brussels, Belgium May 2009 10th Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) Conference on Applied Industrial Organization, Mannheim, Germany LANGUAGE English (fluent), Mandarin (native), Cantonese (good), French (basic and learning)

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