Lu Jingfeng

Lu Jingfeng is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the National University of Singapore. His research focuses on Auctions/Procurement, Contests, Mechanism Design, and Empirics on Auctions, Contests, and Matching. He serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization since 2015.

His research interests center around strategic interactions in competitive environments. Key areas include:

• Optimal auction design with risk-averse bidders
• Mechanism design with private information acquisition
• Contest theory with complex prize structures
• Empirical analysis of bidding behavior
• Dynamic and multi-stage competition models

Recent articles highlight advancements in:

• Dynamic contest theory (2023-2025)
• Nonlinear pricing mechanisms (2022)
• Information acquisition in auctions (2021-2022)
• Team competition structures (2024)
• Risk behavior in procurement auctions (2023)
• Sabotage effects in multi-battle contests (2024)

His work has been published in leading journals including Games and Economic Behavior, RAND Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Theory, and Economic Inquiry.