Professor Kang Rong received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2012. He joined the School of Economics at Shanghai University of Finance & Economics in August 2012. His areas of specialization include microeconomic theory, game theory, and mechanism design.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ph.D. in Economics, 2012 .
Wuhan University, M.A. in Economics, 2004 .
Wuhan University, B.A. in Economics and B.S. in Mathematics, 2001 .

Professor, School of Economics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Aug 2025 - present.

Associate Professor (tenured in Jul 2018), School of Economics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Aug 2013 - Aug 2025.

Assistant Professor, School of Economics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Aug 2012 - Aug 2013.

1. “Optimal Sender Ordering in Sequential Persuasion” (with Quan Li), Economic Theory, accepted.

2. “Full Disclosure in Competitive Bayesian Persuasion” (with Quan Li), International Journal of Game Theory, 2024 (53), 525-545.

3. “The Core of School Choice Problems” (with Qianfeng Tang and Yongchao Zhang), Economic Theory, 2024 (77), 783-800.

4. “A Two-Step Guessing Game” (with King King Li), Theory and Decision, 2024 (97), 89-108.

5. “Real-Life Investors’ Memory Recall Bias: A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment” (with King King Li), Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 2023 (37), 100760.

6. “On Stable and Efficient Mechanisms for Priority-Based Allocation Problems” (with Qianfeng Tang and Yongchao Zhang), Journal of Economic Theory, 2020 (187), 105014.

7. “The Gambling Effect of Final-Offer Arbitration in Bargaining” (with King King Li), Economic Theory, 2020 (69), 475-496.

8. “Random-Settlement Arbitration and the Generalized Nash Solution: One-Shot and Infinite Horizon Cases” (with Nejat Anbarci and Jaideep Roy), Economic Theory, 2019 (68), 21-52.

9. “Public Good Provision with Constitutional Constraint,” International Economic Review, 2018 (59), 1187-1208.

10. “Choices in the 11-20 Game: The Role of Risk Aversion” (with King King Li), Games, 2018 (9), 53.

11. “Unbounded Returns and the Possibility of Credit Rationing: A Note on the Stiglitz-Weiss and Arnold-Riley Models” (with Hengheng Lu), Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2018 (75), 67-70.

12. 'Fair Allocation when Players' Preferences are Unknown,” Economic Inquiry, Volume 56, Issue 1, January 2018, Pages 497-509.

13. “Bargaining with Split-the-Difference Arbitration,” Social Choice and Welfare, Volume 45, Issue 2, September 2015, Pages 441-455.

14. “Proportional Individual Rationality and the Provision of a Public Good in a Large Economy,” Journal of Mathematical Economics, Volume 51, March 2014, Pages 187-196.

15. “Impact of Second-Order Uncertainty on the Efficiency of the Bilateral 0.5-Double Auction,” Mathematical Social Sciences, Volume 65, Issue 1, January 2013, Pages 67-71.

16. “Alternating-Offer Games with Final-Offer Arbitration,” Games and Economic Behavior, Volume 76, Issue 2, November 2012, Pages 596-610.

17. “An Axiomatic Approach to Arbitration and Its Application in Bargaining Games,” The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics (Contributions), 2012, Volume 12, Issue 1, Article 28.