Research papers   

Publications

     Endogenous Ambiguity and Rational miscommunication, 

      Journal of Economic Theory (2023)

Efficient Communication and Indexicality 

     Mathematical Social Sciences (2020) 

Choice set-dependent Performance and Post-decision Dissonance

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2019)

Directives, Expressives, and Motivation

Theoretical Economics (2017) 

Reminder Game: Indirectness in Persuasion, 

Games and Economic Behavior (2016) 

Strategic Transparency and electoral pressure (with Laura Moretti), 

Journal of Public Economic Theory (2016)

Jury voting without objective probability (with Kingking Li), 

Social Choice and Welfare (2016)

Competitive problem solving and the optimal prize scheme

Games and Economic Behavior (2012)

Complementarity of behavioral biases

Theory and Decision (2012) 

Working papers

Contractual interpretation and efficiently imprecise contract (2022)

Some concepts from my papers

• Rational miscommunication: Occasional miscommunication can be inevitable when we use a language efficiently across various environments. (From Endogenous Ambiguity and Rational miscommunication (2023))

• Expressive directives: Telling what to do, i.e., directives, implicitly conveys the speaker's lack of trust in the listener's knowledge as expressives. (From Directives, Expressives, and Motivation (2017))

• Indexical silence: Silence that indicates the most common situation given a context. Ordinary communication utilizes indexical silence to economize communication by exploiting contextual information.  (From Efficient Communication and Indexicality (2020))

• Persuasive silence:  Silence that is interpreted as the speaker's confidence. When silence can be persuasive, hard-sell backfires. (From Reminder Game: Indirectness in Persuasion (2016))

• Choice set dependent performance: A decision-maker who exhibits cognitive dissonance puts more effort into her project if it is chosen by herself rather than assigned by others. (From Choice set-dependent Performance and Post-decision Dissonance (2019)).

• Complementary of behavioral biases: Even if each bias alone can mislead a decision-maker, a combination of biases can help him make a good decision in a complex environment. (From Complementarity of behavioral biases (2012)