Faculty Profile

Vincy Fon received her PhD in economics from the University of Kansas. Her research areas include law and economics and applied microeconomics. Among other courses, she teaches graduate microeconomics, undergraduate law and economics, and undergraduate game theory. She has served as a program director in the economics program at the National Science Foundation and as a consultant for the World Bank.

Her current research includes: "Stability and Change in International Customary Law," forthcoming 2008, Supreme Court Economic Review. "The Economics of Treaty Ratification," forthcoming 2008, Journal of Law, Economics, and Policy. "Role-Reversibility, Stochastic Ignorance, and Social Cooperation," in press 2007, Journal of Socio-Economics. "Matching Rules," in press 2007, Managerial and Decision Economics. "On the Optimal Specificity of Legal Rules," August 2007, Journal of Institutional Economics. "State Liability for Wrongful Conviction: Incentive Effects on Crime Levels," June 2007, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics. "Formation of International Treaties," 2007, Review of Law and Economics.

Associate Professor
PhD, University of Kansas

Interests: Mathematical models and microeconomic theory.

Contact Information:
Office: Monroe 366
(202) 994-7580
vfon@gwu.edu