Haifeng Fu Ph.D.

Associate Professor




Dr Haifeng Fu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics. He had been formerly the Deputy Head of Economics from 2017 to 2020. He also severed as the programme director of BSc Economics and Finance from 2015 to 2017. Before joining XJTLU, he was an Assistant Professor (Mathematics) in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Dr. Fu’s research focuses on Game Theory, Mathematical Economics, Microeconomics Theory and etc. He has published papers in leading economics journals including Economic Theory, Journal of Mathematical Economics, International Journal of Game Theory, Economics Letters and etc.


  • PhD , National University of Singapore, Singapore - 2008
  • M.A. , East China Normal University, China - 2003
  • BA , Fudan University, China - 1998


  • Associate Professor, Department of Economics, XJTLU, 2021 to Present
  • Deputy Head of Division (Economics), International Business School Suzhou, XJTLU, May, 2017 to 2020
  • Programme Director of BSc Economics and Finance, International Business School Suzhou, XJTLU, 2015 to 2017
  • Assistant Professor, Division of Economics, IBSS, XJTLU, 2012-2021.
  • Assistant Professor, Mathematical Science, Nanyang Technological University, 2008 to 2010
  • Accountant (part time), Shanghai Huada Group Co. Ltd, China, 2000 to 2003
  • Financial Analyst and Accountant, Shanghai Huada Group Co. Ltd, China, 1998 to 2000


  • Game Theory, Mathematical Economics, Economic Theory, Happiness Economics


  • FU, Haifeng (2021). On the existence of Pareto undominated mixed-strategy Nash equilibrium in normal-form games with infinite actions. Economics Letters, Volume 201, April 2021, 109771.
  • FU, Haifeng (2021). Morality, meditation and wisdom: A comparative study of the teachings of master Huineng and Luangpor Teean. Prajna Vihara: Journal of Philosophy and Religion. Vol. 22, Pages 1-27. (http://www.assumptionjournal.au.edu/ index.php/PrajnaVihara)
  • Fu, Haifeng (2020). A new theory for explaining the momentary change of sub- jective wellbeing, World Without Anger: A Cross-cultural Journal on Emotional Intelligence, Vol. 8, August 9, 2020. (Kindle Edition; ISSN: 2091-0398)
  • FU, HAIFENG & WU, BIN (2019). "Characterization of Nash equilibria of large games", Journal of Mathematical Economics (ABS-3 and ABDC A), Vol. 85, December 2019, Pages 46-51.
  • FU, HAIFENG & YU, HAOMIAO (2018). 'Pareto refinements of pure-strategy equilibria in games with public and private information', Journal of Mathematical Economics (ABS-3 and ABDC A), Vol. 79, December 2018, Pages 18-26.
  • FU, HAIFENG & Wu, Bin (2018). 'On the characterization of Nash equilibrium action distributions of large distributional games', Economics Letters (ABS-3 and ABDC A), Vol. 168, July 2018, Pages 82-84
  • FU, HAIFENG, ZHANG, LUYI & XU, YING (2016). 'Pure-strategy Nash equilibria in large games: Characterization and Existence.', International Journal of Game Theory (ABS-2 and ABDC level A), vol. 45, no. 3, p. 685-697
  • FU, HAIFENG & YU, Haomiao (2015). 'Pareto-Undominated and Socially-Maximal Equilibria in Non-Atomic Games', Journal of Mathematical Economics (ABS-3 and ABDC A), vol. 58, no. , p. 7-15
  • FU, HAIFENG, JIN, XING, PAN, GUANGMING & YANG, YANGRONG (2012). 'Estimating Multiple Option Greeks Simultaneously Using Random Parameter Regression', Journal of Computational Finance (ABS-1 and ABDC C), vol. 16, no. 2, p. 85-118
  • FU, HAIFENG (2008). 'Mixed-strategy equilibria and strong purification for games with private and public information', Economic Theory (ABS-3 and ABDC A*), vol. 37, no. , p. 512-532
  • FU, HAIFENG, SUN, YENENG, YANNELIS, NICOLAS & ZHANG, ZHIXIANG (2007). 'Pure-strategy equilibria in games with private and public information', Journal of Mathematical Economics (ABS-3 and ABDC A), vol. 43, no. , p. 523-531
  • FU, HAIFENG (2003). The management of catastrophe risk of insurance companies: A comparison study between Risk securitization and reinsurance, Zhejiang Insurance (Chinese Journal), 162, 42-45, 2003.
  • FU, HAIFENG 2002 'The correlation between interest rate and unemployment rate: Theoretical analysis and empirical research (in Chinese)', The Journal of World Economy, vol. 282, no. , p. 27-34


  • (2015-2016) An emotionally intelligent Game Theory In: ISER- 5th International Conference on Economics and Business Research, pp.


  • 2008-2009, 5th ASIAN GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM THEORY WORKSHOP / Undominated pure-strategy equilibrium in large games and Bayesian games
  • 2009-2010, 10th SAET Conference on Current Trends in Economics / Connecting Bayesian games with large games
  • 2013-2014, 2013 Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society / Pure-strategy equilibria in large games: Characterization and Existence.
  • 2013-2014, 2014 International Symposium on Business, Banking, Marketing and Economy / Pareto-Undominated and Socially Maximal Equilibria in Non-Atomic Games
  • 2015-2016, ISER- 5th International Conference on Economics and Business Research / An emotionally intelligent Game Theory
  • 2014-2015, International Conference on Trends in Economics, Humanities and Management / Pure-strategy Nash equilibria in large games: Characterization and Existence
  • 2015-2016, International Conference on Buddhist Economics and World Crises / Why are Chinese not happy? --An analysis from the Buddhist Economics point of view
  • 2015-2016, IRES- 22nd International conferences on Economics and Social Sciences / On the existence of Pareto undominated pure-strategy Bayesian Nash equilibrium
  • June 2017, 2017 China Meeting of the Econometric Society, Wuhan China/ On the characterization and existence of Nash equilibria in large games with bio-social traits
  • August 2017, Singapore Economic Review Conference 2017, Singapore / Pareto-Undominated and Socially-Maximal Equilibria in Non-Atomic Games
  • June 2018, 2018 China Meeting of the Econometric Society, Fudan China, /On the characterization of Nash equilibrium action distributions of large distributional games


  • 2014 2nd Asia and Pacific Economic Seminar in IBSS.
  • 2013 Asian meeting of the Econometric Society.
  • 2010 10th SAET Conference on Current Trends in Economics.
  • 2010 10th SAET Conference on Current Trends in Economics.


  • ECO101 Introduction to Statistics
  • ECO104 Economic Principles for Business and Markets
  • ECO109 Principles of Microeconomics
  • ECO111 Quantitative Methods
  • ECO312 International Economic Relations
  • ECO410 Game Theory
  • MAN303 Final Year Project


  • 2006 Best Graduate Researcher Award, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, NUS
  • 2003 PHD Research Scholarship (five years from 2003 to 2008), NUS
  • 2002 Excellent Graduate Student Award, East China Normal University
  • 1994 People's Scholarship (four times from 1994 to 1998), Fudan University
Haifeng Fu