Guofu Tan

Guofu Tan is a professor of economics at the University of Southern California. His research focuses on business strategy and industrial organization, competition and regulatory policies, auction theory, and microeconomics with applications.

He previously held the positions of associate professor and assistant professor of economics at the University of British Columbia and associate professor of economics at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He has also held visiting professor positions at Tsinghua University (Beijing), Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (Beijing), and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.

In addition to his academic positions, he held the T.D. MacDonald Chair in Industrial Economics at the Competition Bureau in Canada from 2000 to 2001.