Wai chiu Woo The Chinese University of Hong Kong   ,   wcwoo@cuhk.edu.hk     Biographical Sketch: Refereed journal publications: 1. Status and Welfare under Monopolistic Competition. Social Choice and Welfare, 2011, 36:227-239. 2.Social Inefficiency of Free Entry with Status Effects. Journal of Public Economic Theory, forthcoming. 3. Inverted-U shaped Conformism: An Economic Model of Endogenous Response to Joneses. Journal of Socio-Economics, 2012, 41(1): 31-36.   Primary Research Focus: Welfare economics; economics of social status   JEL Areas: D6 : Welfare Economics: General A : General Economics and Teaching