Research

WORKING PAPERS AND RESEARCH-IN-PROGRESS:

"Toward an Understanding of Optimal Mediation Choice" (with Wooyoung Lim) [Experimental Instructions], submitted.

- Initiated 04/2022; Latest 05/2025 (previously titled "Informed Principal Problems in the Laboratory")  

"Marginal Contribution and Singleton Cores in One-Sided Matching and Assignment" (with Hyunjun Cho and Jaeok Park), revision requested by Games and Economic Behavior.

- Initiated 07/2022; Latest 03/2025 (previously titled "When Same-Sex Marriages are Unstable")

"Profit Sharing in Partnerships: Complementarity, Productivity, and Commitment" (with Byung-Cheol Kim and Hyunjun Cho) [Supplementary Materials], submitted.

- Initiated 05/2023; Latest 07/2025

"Biased Mediator: Selection and Effectiveness" (with Jongjae Lee) [Online Appendix], revision requested by Journal of Economic Theory.

- Initiated 10/2022; Latest 05/2025

"Voting Rules and Bargaining in Governance Arrangements for Organizations" (with B. Pablo Montagnes)

- Initiated 11/2021

"Games with Strong Solutions" (with Jaeok Park)

- Initiated 12/2020; Latest 10/2022 (undergoing a rewrite)

PUBLISHED AND ACCEPTED PAPERS:

[13] Do Financial Analysts Herd? (with Yongjun Kim and Myungkyu Shim)

Global Economic Review, October 2023 [52(3):202-219], published online 7 July 2023.

[12] Negotiation Statements with Promise and Threat | [Online Appendix] 

Review of Economic Design, June 2022 [26:149-164], published online 25 August 2021.

* This paper grew out of conversations with my PhD advisor Roger Myerson. Click here for Professor Myerson's short interview with CNBC (Aug 29, 2017). 

[11] Neutral Public Good Mechanisms

PLoS ONE, April 2022 [17(4): e0266278].

[10] A Unique and Robust Social Contract: An Application to Negotiations with Probabilistic Conflicts

Global Economic Review, February 2022 [51(1):61-74], published online 29 November 2021.

[9] Information Inequality and the Role of Public Information (with Myungkyu Shim)

The Korean Economic Review, January 2022 [38(1):207-230].

[8]  When Does Terrorism Occur: Game-Theoretic Analysis and Offense-Defense Balance

The Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics, December 2021 [62(2):59-73].

[7] Neutral Bargaining in Financial Over-The-Counter Markets

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2019 [109:539-544].

* This paper was invited to "Topics in Economic Theory I Session" (hosted by AEA & CSWEP) at the 2019 ASSA Annual Meeting [slide]

[6] Does Higher Firm Profit Dispersion Reflect Greater Micro Uncertainty? (with Myungkyu Shim)

Economics Letters, March 2019 [176C:35-38].

[5] Counterthreat of Attack to Deter Aggression | [Online Appendix]

Economics Letters, June 2018 [167C:112-114].

[4] Forecast Dispersion in Finite-Player Forecasting Games (with Myungkyu Shim) | [Supplementary Materials]

The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, January 2019 [19(1)], published online January 2018.

[3] The Economics of the Right to be Forgotten (with Byung-Cheol Kim) | [Online Appendices] 

The Journal of Law and Economics, May 2017 [60(2):335-360].

* First WP version was available December 2014; NET Institute Working Paper #15-02 (2015) was cited by Xue et al. (2016).  

[2] Interim Third-Party Selection in Bargaining | [Online Appendices]

Games and Economic Behavior, March 2017 [102:645-665]. [slide notes-Pitt/CMU]

[1] The Strategy of Manipulating Joint Decision-Making (with Heung Jin Kwon)

Economics Letters, May 2014 [123(2):127-130].

RESEARCH NOTES OR UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS:

Efficient and Neutral Mechanisms in Almost Ex Ante Bargaining Problems

- Initiated 02/2016; Latest 06/2020 | SSRN | YERI Working Paper #2020rwp-174 (2020)

*This note is not for publication; part of the materials are used in Kim (2021, GER). 

Informed Principal Problems in Bilateral Trading: An Application

- Initiated 12/2020; Latest 01/2023

DISSERTATION:

Models to Understand Incentives in Conflict, The University of Chicago, ProQuest, UMI Dissertation Publishing, 2014.

YERI WORKING PAPERS: 

Biased Mediation: Selection and Effectiveness: #2024rwp-230 (2024)

Profit Sharing in Partnerships: Complementarity, Productivity, and Commitment: #2024rwp-224 (2024)

Do Financial Analysts Herd? (GER, 2023): #2019rwp-161 (2019)

Negotiation Statements with Promise and Threat (RED, 2022): #2019rwp-160 (2019)

Neutral Public Good Mechanisms (PO, 2022): #2019rwp-159 (2019)

A Unique and Robust Social Contract: An Application to Negotiations with Probabilistic Conflicts (GER, 2022): #2021rwp-187 (2021)

When Does Terrorism Occur: Game-Theoretic Analysis and Offense-Defense Balance (HJE, 2021): #2020rwp-173 (2020)

A Noncooperative Foundation of the Neutral Bargaining Solution: #2020rwp-175 (2020)

DORMANT PAPERS:

"A Noncooperative Foundation of the Neutral Bargaining Solution"

- Initiated 01/2013; Latest 06/2020 | Link to the SSRN Page

"A Unique Neutral Bargaining Solution for Games with Hawk-Dove Types"

- Initiated 01/2013; Latest 12/2019

A Theory of Transferable Sincere Voting

- First version 02/2012; Latest 03/2013

Dynamic Bargaining Problems with Incomplete Information (tentative title) 

- Initiated 02/08/2018

Dynamic Bargaining over Debt Covenants: Renegotiation and Efficiency (with Bong Geun Choi)

- Latest 09/2015

Internal Bargaining in Bureaucracy and Politics

- First version 10/2012; Latest 03/2013

A Biased Mediator with Partial Information

- First version 11/2012; Latest 02/2013