Professor Lu is an economist specializing in industrial organization and economics of organization. Her research interests mainly concern how information problems affect individual behavior and the organization of firms and markets, especially the structure of those industries related to health care.
Her current research focuses on two lines concerning incentives under information asymmetry. The first is on the long-term care industry. In a series of papers based on the introduction of the Nursing Home Quality Initiative (a report card policy) in the United States in 2002, she studies the effect of information to consumers on the behavior of nursing homes under different organizational forms. In the second line of research, she studies the incentives of managers in China during the transition from the planned economy to the market economy.
She has done fieldwork in the areas of nursing home quality investigation in the greater Chicago area and the state owned enterprises (S.O.E.) in the process of privatization in China.
Her teaching interests include econometrics and statistics, health care strategy, business in emerging markets, and nonprofit management.
B.A., Economics,
Beijing University
B.A., International Relations,
Beijing University
M.A., Economics,
Beijing University
Ph.D., Managerial Economics and Strategy, Northwestern University
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