Tina Kao

Tina Kao is a Lecturer of Economics at the Research School of Economics, Australian National University. Her research focuses on technology licensing, competition policy, regulation, and niche product strategies. She explores optimal licensing schemes for cumulative patents, strategic use of intellectual property rights, and welfare impacts of mergers in differentiated markets. Her work also addresses optimal access pricing in competitive downstream markets and firms' incentives for niche products. Tina's research has been published in top journals like the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization and Journal of Regulatory Economics.

Her recent studies include analyzing political dynamics affecting public goods provision and private spillovers (2020), niche-product strategies in the spokes model (2018), and welfare-enhancing mergers under product differentiation (2010). Tina actively supervises research students and contributes to regulatory frameworks in competitive markets. She has also engaged with mathematical economics, publishing on equilibrium theorems and oligopoly dynamics. Her work bridges theoretical economics with practical policy implications in innovation, competition, and market regulation.