Liqun Liu is a PERC Fellow at the Private Enterprise Research Center. He joined the Center after earning his Ph.D. in Economics from Texas A&M University in 1998. Originally from China, he also received a B.S. and M.S. in Applied Mathematics from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Dr. Liu's primary research interests are public policy analysis, cost-benefit analysis, and decision analysis. He has published in Economic Inquiry, Economics Letters, European Economic Review, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Journal of Theoretical and Institutional Economics, National Tax Journal, and Southern Economic Journal, among other economics journals. He served as an associate editor for Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization from 2012 to 2016. In September, 2017, Dr. Liu and his co-authors received the SCOR - Geneva Risk and Insurance Review Best Paper Award for "Tradeoffs for Downside Risk-Averse Decision-Makers and the Self-Protection Decision."