PROFESSIONAL POSITION:

Research Fellow (November 2009-present), Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica

Fulbright Scholar (August 2008-January 2009), Department of Public Affairs, University of Illinois at Chicago

Professor (August 2005-Oct. 2009), Department of Economics, National Taipei University, Taipei, Taiwan.

Associate Professor (February 2000-July 2005), Department of Economics, National Taipei University, Taipei, Taiwan.

Associate Professor (August 1995-February 2000), Department of Economics, National Chung Hsing University, Taipei, Taiwan.

PUBLISHED ARTICLES:

Guo, Wen-Chung and Lai, Fu-Chuan, 2016, “Prices, locations, and welfare when an online retailer competes with heterogeneous brick-and-mortar retailers,” Journal of Industrial Economics, accepted. (SSCI)

Guo, Wen-Chung, Lai, Fu-Chuan and Yu, Chia-Ming, 2016, “Where to locate in a circular city with a foreign market?” Journal of Social Sciences and Philosophy, accepted.

Guo, Wen-Chung and Lai, Fu-Chuan, 2015, “Spatial Cournot competition in a linearcircular market,” The Annals of Regional Science, 54(3), 819-834. (SSCI)

Guo, Wen-Chung and Lai, Fu-Chuan, 2015, “Media bias, slant regulation, and the public-interest media,” Journal of Economics, 114(3), 291-308. (SSCI)

Guo, Wen-Chung, Lai, Fu-Chuan and Zeng, Dao-Zhi, 2015, “A Hotelling model with production,” Mathematical Social Sciences, 73, 40-49. (SSCI)

Guo, Wen-Chung and Lai, Fu-Chuan, 2014, “Media bias when advertisers have bargaining power,” Journal of Media Economics, 27(3), 120-136. (SSCI)

Lai, Fu-Chuan, Merriman, David and Tsai, Jyh-Fa, 2014, “Land use and rent gradients with a monopoly vendor and two central business districts,” Annals of Regional Science, 53 (3), 745-760. (SSCI)

Sun, Chia-Hung and Lai, Fu-Chuan, 2014, “Spatial price discrimination in a symmetric barbell model: Bertrand vs. Cournot,” Papers in Regional Science, 93 (1), 141-158. (SSCI)

Guo, Wen-Chung and Lai, Fu-Chuan, 2014, “Spatial competition with quadratic transport costs and one online firm,” Annals of Regional Science, 52 (1), 309-324. (SSCI)

Guo, Wen-Chung and Lai, Fu-Chuan, 2014, “Spatial price discrimination and location choice with labor markets,” Annals of Regional Science, 52 (1), 103-119. (SSCI)

Lai, Fu-chuan, Sun, Chia-Hung, and Wang, An-Ming, 2014, “Housing appreciation (depreciation) and owners’ welfare: An alternative view,” Urban Studies, 51 (1), 63-74. (SSCI)

Guo, Wen-Chung and Lai, Fu-Chuan, 2013, “Nesting horizontal and vertical differentiation with location choices,” Pacific Economic Review, 18 (4), 546-556. (SSCI)

Guo, Wen-Chung and Lai, Fu-Chuan, 2013, “The role of an intermediate market within the barbell model,” Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, 6 (3), 151161. (JEL)

Chu, Chih-Peng, Guo, Wen-Chung and Lai, Fu-Chuan, 2012, “On the competition between an online bookstore and a physical bookstore,” NETNOMICS: Economic Research and Electronic Networking, 13, 141-154.

Lai, Fu-Chuan, Tabuchi, Takatoshi, 2012, “Hotelling meets Weber,” Regional Science and Urban Economics, 42(6), 1017-1022. (SSCI)

Sun, Chia-Hung and Lai, Fu-Chuan, 2013, “Hotelling was right with decreasing returns to scale and a coalition-proof refinement,” Annals of Regional Science, 50 (3), 953-971. (SSCI)

Wen-Chung Guo, Fu-Chuan Lai, Chorng-Jian Liu, Chao-Cheng Mai, 2012, “Symbiotic production and downstream market competition,” Atlantic Economic Journal, 40(3), 329-340. (JEL)

Tsai, Jyh-Fa and Lai, Fu-Chuan, 2012, “Urban configurations with suburban employment by a monopoly vendor,” International Regional Science Review, 35(4), 424-441. (SSCI)

Liu, Chorng-Jian, Mai, Chao-Cheng, Lai, Fu-Chuan and Guo, Wen-Chung, 2010, “Pollution, factor ownerships, and emission taxes,” Atlantic Economic Journal, 38(2), 209-216. (JEL)

Lai, Fu-Chuan, McDonald, John, and Merriman, David, 2010, “Housing appreciation (depreciation) and owners’ welfare,” Journal of Housing Economics, 19, 66-73. (SSCI)

Chu, Chih-Peng, Pan, Jin-Gu, Lai, Fu-Chuan, and Liu, Chorng-Jian, 2008, “Detection strategy in the software industry: when should a firm close one eye?” Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, 15 (1), 115-124.

Chen, Chin-Sheng and Lai, Fu-Chuan, 2008, “Location choice and optimal zoning under Cournot competition,” Regional Science and Urban Economics, 38, 119126. (SSCI)

Lai, Fu-Chuan and Tsai, Jyh-Fa, 2008, “Simplified Alonso-Mills-Muth model with a monopoly vendor,” Journal of Urban Economics, 60 (2), 536-543. (SSCI)

Lai, Fu-Chuan, 2006, “Subsidized parking and neighborhood nuisances: A supplement,” Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, 12 (2), 125.

Tsai, Jyh-Fa, Peng, Shin-Kun, and Lai, Fu-Chuan, 2006, “Spatial duopoly with zoning,” Annals of Regional Science, 40 (3), 515-530. (SSCI)

Yao, Jen-Te and Lai, Fu-Chuan, 2005, “Incentive consistency and the choice of a spatial pricing mode,” Annals of Regional Science, 40 (3), 583-602. (SSCI)

Yao, Jen-Te and Lai, Fu-Chuan, 2005, “A fiscal regime solving the incentive inconsistency problem,” Annals of Regional Science, 40 (3), 603-620. (SSCI)

Tsai, Jyh-Fa and Lai, Fu-Chuan, 2005, “Spatial duopoly with triangular markets,” Papers in Regional Science, 84(1), 47-59. (SSCI)

Gupta, Barnali, Lai, Fu-Chuan, Pal, Debashis, Sarkar, Jyotirmoy, and Yu, Chia-Ming, 2004, “Where to locate in a circular city?” International Journal of Industrial Organization 22, 759-782 (SSCI). NSC 91-2415-H-305-005

Lai, Fu-Chuan and Chen, I-Fan, 2004, “An economic analysis of bagged fireflies and reflected light of snow,” Socioeconomic Law and Institution Review, 34, 261-272. (in Chinese)

Lai, Fu-Chuan and Tsai, Jyh-Fa, 2004, “Duopoly locations and optimal zoning in a small open city,” Journal of Urban Economics 55, 614-626. (SSCI)

Yu, Chia-Ming and Lai, Fu-Chuan, 2003, “Cournot competition in spatial markets: Some further results,” Papers in Regional Science 82, 569-580. (SSCI)

Lin, Chang-Yu and Lai, Fu-Chuan, 2002, “An analysis of public-facility location and urban configuration,” Socioeconomic Law and Institution Review, 29, 383-412. (in Chinese)

Lai, Fu-Chuan and Yang, Shu-Tsung, 2002, “A view on optimal urban growth controls,” Annals of Regional Science 36(2), 229-238. (SSCI) NSC86-2415-H-005A016

Lai, Fu-Chuan and Yang, Shu-Tsung, 2002, “Reply to the alternative optimal growth controls,” Annals of Regional Science 36(2), 241-245. (SSCI)

Lai, Fu-Chuan, 2001, “Sequential locations in directional markets,” Regional Science and Urban Economics 31, 535-546. (SSCI)

Chien, Huei-Ying and Lai, Fu-Chuan, 2001, “An analysis of directional market behaviors,” Taiwan Economic Review, 29(1), 89-102. (in Chinese) (JEL)

Brueckner, Jan and Lai, Fu-Chuan, 1996, “Urban growth controls with resident landowners,” Regional Science and Urban Economics 26, 125-143. (SSCI)

BOOK:

Fu-Chuan Lai, Jen-Te Yao, Chao-En Yu, and Chia-Hung Sun, 2011, Regional Economics (in Chinese). Taiwan: Han-Lu.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Editorial Board, Journal of Social Sciences and Philosophy, July, 2011- June, 2015.

Referee for Journal of Urban Economics, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Regional Science and Urban Economics, European Economic Journal, Southern Economic Journal, Journal of Regional Science, Annals of Regional Science, Papers in Regional Science, Academia Economic Papers, Taiwan Economic Review, Taipei Economic Inquiry.