Research Interests
Dynamic Games, Mechanism Design, Contests
Publications (and Accepted Papers)
- Optimal Disclosure in All-Pay Auctions with Interdependent Valuations (Joint with Bo Chen) Accepted at Games and Economic Behavior.
- Elimination Contests with Collusive Team Players (Joint with Shanlin Jin) Supplementary Materials Journal of Public Economic Theory, 25(1): 61-89 (2023).
- Information Disclosure in Dynamic Research Contests (Joint with Bo Chen and Dmitriy Knyazev), RAND Journal of Economics, 53(1): 113-137 (2022).
- Simple Contracts under Observable and Hidden Actions (Joint with Yu Chen and David Rietzke), Economic Theory, 69: 1023-1047 (2020).
- The Role of Aggregate Information in a Binary Threshold Game (Joint with Rajat Deb), Social Choice and Welfare, 51: 381-414 (2018).
- Optimal Bundle Pricing under Correlated Valuations (Joint with Debing Ni), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 52: 248-281 (2017).
- A Symmetric Two-Player All-Pay Contest with Correlated Information (Joint with Zhiyang Liu), Economics Letters, 165: 6-10 (2016).
- Random Decentralized Market Processes for Stable Job Matchings with Competitive Salaries (Joint with Satoru Fujishige and Zaifu Yang) Supplementary Materials. Journal of Economic Theory, 165: 25-36 (2016).
- An Investigation of the Average Bid Mechanism for Procurement Auctions, (Joint with Wei-Shiun Chang and Tim Salmon), Management Science, 61(6): 1237-1254 (2014). (Online Appendix)
- A Folk Theorem for Repeated Games with Unequal Discounting (Joint with Satoru Takahashi), Games and Economic Behavior, 76(2): 571-581 (2012).
- All-or-Nothing Payments, Journal of Mathematical Economics, 48(3): 133-142 (2012).
- On the Feasible Payoff Set of a General Two-Player Repeated Game with Unequal Discounting (Joint with Satoru Fujishige), International Journal of Game Theory, 42(1): 295-303 (2013).
- Optimal Selling Mechanisms with Countervailing Positive Externalities and an Application to Tradable Retaliation in the WTO (Joint with Tanapong Potipiti), Journal of Mathematical Economics, 46(5): 825-843. Working Paper Version: Externalities (2010).
- All-or-Nothing Monitoring: Comment, American Economic Review, 100(1): 625-627 (2010).
- A Belief-Based Approach to the Repeated Prisoners’ Dilemma with Asymmetric Private Monitoring, Journal of Economic Theory, 145(1): 402-420 (January, 2010).
- On Effective Minimax Payoffs and Unequal Discounting, Economics Letters, 100(1): 105-107 (2008).
- The Pareto Frontier of a Finitely Repeated Game with Unequal Discounting, Economics Letters, 94(2): 177-184 (2007).
Working Papers
- Everybody’s Talkin’ at Me: Levels of Majority Language Acquisition by Minority Language Speakers (Joint with Buz Brock, Steven Durlauf, and Shlomo Weber)
- Entry Threats to Cartels: Accommodation or Deterrence? (Joint with Ichiro Obara)
- Non-Convexity of Strongly Symmetric Equilibrium Payoffs in the Repeated Oligopoly (Joint with Shanlin Jin)
- Simple Bribing in All-Pay Auctions (Joint with Shanlin Jin)