KIN-PING JEREMY WONG http://jeremywong42.me
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Office Contact Information: 580 Intercultural Center Georgetown University Washington, DC 20057 Phone number: +1 202-848-4796 Education: Georgetown University, 2019 (Expected) Ph.D. in Economics Thesis Title: “E-hail, flexible fare and leasing: improving New York taxicab market” University of California, Santa Barbara Master of Arts in Economics, 2013 The Chinese University of Hong Kong , 2012 Bachelor of Science (Hons) Major: Mathematics (Computational and Applied Mathematics Stream) References: John Rust (Advisor) Professor Department of Economics Georgetown University 301-801-0081
Axel Anderson Associate Professor Department of Economics Georgetown University 202-687-7829
James Albrecht Professor Department of Economics Georgetown University 202-687-6105 202-687-6105
Research Fields: Primary fields: Applied Microeconomics, Industrial Organization Secondary fields: Applied Econometrics, Transportation Economics Working Papers: “E-hail, flexible fare and leasing: improving the New York taxicab market” (Job Market Paper) Recent empirical literature has found evidence of search friction because of spatial mismatch of vacant cab and waiting passengers (Buchholz (2018)) and entry and exit decisions under TLC medallion ownership and leasing restrictions (Frachette, Lizerri and Saez (2017)). This paper presents a dynamic spatial matching game model to study the potential effects of technological improvements including ehail platforms, flexible fare and leasing schedules o n drivers’ income and passengers’ passengers’ welfare. With the aid of real time surge pricing and waiting time data collected from Uber database, we estimate the price and waiting time elasticities on the demand side. I also develop an iterative method to solve f or oblivious equilibria in oligopoly games with logit choice probabilities. Counterfactual results indicate that substituting 30% street hail demand with e-hail requests generates 22% earnings and 23% utilization gains for e-hail drivers relative relative to pure street hail equilibrium. equilibrium. Waiving the current e-hail booking booking fee generates a consumer surplus of $12.3 million per year.
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Work in Progress: “Seemingly Irrational Serving Strategies: A Dynamic Model of Professional Tennis Players” (with Axel Anderson, Jeremy Rosen and John Rust) Walker and Wooders (2001) used von Neumann ’s Minimax Theorem to model professional tennis players’ serve location strategies. Per minimax, a static point-maximization model has two implications: serves should have equal win probabilities to all attempted locations, and servers’ choices should be serially independent. We scraped data over 850,000 ATP and WTA serves and found contradicting evidence: controlling for server- returner pairs, first serves hit to the returner’s body are 3.4% less successful than non-body first serves. In addition, servers ’ choices are negatively serially correlated. We develop a dynamic discrete choice model to study servers’ decisions. In this model, players may hit an inferior serve on the current point or deviate from serial independence to increase their odds of winning future points and ultimately the game. Therefore, common coaching advice to hit body first serves and mix up serve locations may be optimal. “Cross-platform matching competition and dynamic pricing in the for- hired vehicle market” Teaching Experience: Fall 2014 to Fall 2018
Summer 2015-2017
Scholarships and Awards: 2013 – Present 2017
2018 2010, 2012 Presentations: 2018
2017
Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Econometrics (Undergraduate), Economics of Sports and The Economics and Strategy of Sports (Undergraduate), International Trade (Undergraduate) Georgetown University Led weekly recitations, graded exams and problem sets, held office hours Instructor for International Trade (Undergraduate) Georgetown University Instructor Evaluation Score: 4.65/5
Georgetown University Graduate School Merit-Based Scholarship Georgetown University Department of Economics Summer Research Fellowship Georgetown University Department of Economics Computer Committee Stipend Chung Chi College Scholarship of Academic Excellence
Midwest Economics Association Annual Meeting DC IO Conference (Poster session) Georgetown Microeconomics Workshop
Skills: Computer: Full working capacity/capability: capacity/capability: MATLAB, Python, Stata, R, LaTeX Experienced: PostgreSQL, C, AWS Language: Cantonese (Native), Mandarin (Proficient), English (Proficient)