Contact
Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts - Economics Dept
- lzhou9@ualberta.ca
- Phone
- (780) 492-4133
- Address
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9-9 Tory (H.M.) Building
11211 Saskatchewan Drive NWEdmonton ABT6G 2H4
Overview
About
Li Zhou is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Alberta. She received her Ph.D. in economics from University of California at San Diego, her M.A. in economics from University of Illinois at Urban-Champaign, and her B.A. in public finance from Renmin University of China.
Research
Li Zhou specializes in international trade, behavioral economics, and urban economics. Her research has addressed how the hold-up problem affects inner-city commercial development in the US, how foreign students in Australian universities affect the enrollment of native born, and how reference-dependent preferences affect professional sports industry and local governments.
Courses
ECON 223 - Economics of Globalization
A survey of the evolution, governance, and current state of economic globalization, including trade of goods and services, foreign direct investment, and immigration, with special attention to its relationship to global poverty reduction, inequality, environment, and populism. Prerequisite: ECON 101. Not open to students with credit or enrolled in ECON 323, ECON 421, or ECON 422.
ECON 384 - Intermediate Microeconomic Theory II
Designed for majors and Honors students in Economics. Extensions and applications of microeconomic theory: intertemporal choice, risk, uncertainty and expected utility; oligopoly and game theory; externalities, public goods, adverse selection, moral hazard, and asymmetric information; general equilibrium. Prerequisites: ECON 281 and 299 or equivalent, and MATH 156 or equivalent.