Research

Publications

• "The Groupwise-Pivotal Referral Mechanism: Core-selecting referral strategy-proof mechanism" (with Seungwon (Eugene) Jeong),   Games and Economic Behaviors 143 (2024)

• "Seller Compound Search for Bidders" (with Daniel Z. Li), Journal of Industrial Economics 71.4 (2023)

• "Strategic Alliances in a Veto Game: An Experimental Study" (with Chulyoung Kim, Sang-Hyun Kim, Jinhyuk Lee), European Journal of Political Economy 75 (2022)

• "Sequential Search with Adaptive Intensity" (with Daniel Z. Li) International Economic Review 63.2 (2022): 803-829 (working paper version) 

• "Diversification and Bank Stability," (with Shuo Liang and Fernando Moreira) Economics Letters 193 (2020) 109312

• "Participation and Welfare in Auctions with Default," (with Daniel Z. Li) Economics Letters 183 (2019) 108620

• "Multilateral Bargaining in Networks: On the Prevalence of Inefficiency," Operations Research  66.5 (2018): 1204-1217

  • "Asymmetries in Networks Cause Inefficiencies" in This Issue 

• "Sequentially Two-Leveled Egalitarianism for TU Games: Characterization and Application," (with Theo SH Driessen) European Journal of Operational Research 220.3 (2012): 736-743

• "Sequential Contributions Rules for Minimum Cost Spanning Tree Problems," (with Youngsub Chun) Mathematical Social Sciences 64.2 (2012): 136-143

Conference Proceedings

• "Multilateral Bargaining in Networks: On the Prevalence of Inefficiency, (One Page Abstract)" Web and Internet Economics (WINE 2015), 11th International Conference Proceedings, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science  Series 9470 

• "Mechanisms with Referrals: VCG Mechanisms and Multilevel Mechanisms, (Extended Abstract)" EC'16|17th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation

Working Papers

• "Optimal Search Auctions with a Deadline" (with Daniel Li)

• "Greedy Pandora's Rule for Matroid Search Problems'' 

• "Strategic Alliances in Coalitional Bargaining" 

Previously circulated under the title, "Bargaining and Buyout". Won the Best Paper Award (with a prize of $1500 plus an honorarium of $500) at the Seventh Annual Graduate Student Conference in the Alexander Hamilton Center for Political Economy at New York University.

• "A Theory of Endogenous Time Preference: Search-Theoretic Approaches "

Work in Progress 

• "Optimal Selling Mechanisms for Referrals"

• "Dynamic R&D Tournament with Endogenous Effort" (with Daniel Li)

• "Paradoxes of Network in Bargaining" (with Duk Gyoo Kim)

• "Voluntary Disclosure of Referral Information"

Seminars

• Queens University of Belfast, UK (2024)

• Durham University, UK (2024)

• Institute of Econonmics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (2023)

• Korea University, Korea (2023)

• SKKU (Sungkwunkwan University), Korea (2023)

• College of Business, KAIST – Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea  (2022)

• Durham University, UK (2021)

• City, University of London, UK (2020)

• ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research in Mannheim, Germany (2019)

• Konkuk University, Korea (2018)

• School of Economics, Yonsei University, Korea (2018)

• College of Business, KAIST – Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea  (2017)

• University of Bristol, UK (2017)

• Durham University, UK (2016)

• Center for Distributive Justice at Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (2014)

• Korea Institute of Public Finance. Seoul, Korea (2014)

• Sogang University, Seoul, Korea (2014)

Conference Presentations

• FUR 2024 (Foundations of Utility and Risk), University of Queensland, Australia

• IIOC 2024 (International Industrial Organization Conference), Boston, MA, US

• APIOC 2023 (Asian-Pacific Industrial Organization Conference), HKUST, Hong Kong

• 2022 European Winter Meeting, Berlin, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany

• Texas Economic Theory Camp 2022, Rice University, TX, US

• Midwest Economic Theory Conference (2022 Spring), Purdue, IN, 29 April - 1 May, 2022 

• Game Theory and Business Applications - Conference in Honour of Kalyan Chatterjee, Edinburgh, UK, 8-9 March, 2019  (Organiser) 

• 2018 Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society, Seoul, Korea, 21-23 June, 2018

• 14th meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Seoul, Korea, 14-17 June, 2018

• 2018 Conference on Mechanism and Institution Design, Durham, UK (12-13 May)

• 23rd Coalition Theory Network Workshop, Maastricht, the Netherlands (05-06 April)

• 2017 Conference on Economic Design, York, UK (12 - 16, June, 2017)

• 22nd Coalition Theory Network Workshop, Glasgow, UK (11 - 12 May, 2017)

• EC'16|17th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, Maastricht, the Netherlands 

• GAMES 2016, 5th World Congress of the Game Theory Society, Maastricht, the Netherlands 

• 13th Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Lund, Sweden 

• ASBS-SIRE workshop on Behavioural Economics and Mechanism Design, Glasgow, UK

• XXV European Workshop on General Equilibrium Theory, Glasgow, UK 

• 2016 RES-York Symposium and Mini-Courses on Game Theory, York, UK

• WINE 2015: The 11th Conference on Web and Internet Economics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

• 2015 SIRE Behavior, Incentives and Contracts (BIC) workshop, Edinburgh, UK

• The 15th Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory Conference, Cambridge, UK

• 2015 Annual Conference of the Royal Economic Society, Manchester, UK

• 20th Coalition Theory Network Workshop, Venice, Italy

• The 12th Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare. Boston, Massachusetts, USA 

• The Seventh Alexander Hamilton Center Graduate Student Conference on Political Economy at NYU, New York, USA

• Fall 2013 Midwest Economic Theory Meeting. Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

• The 24th Stony Brook International Conference on Game Theory. Stony Brook, New York, USA

• SED 2009: The Conference of the Society for Economic Design. Maastricht, The Netherlands

• PET09: Tenth Public Economic Theory International Meeting. Galway, Ireland

• The Forth Asian Decentralization Conference. Seoul, Korea

• 2009 Economics Joint Conference of the Korean Economic Association. Seoul, Korea

• GAMES 2008: Third Congress of the Game Theory Society. Evanston, Illinois, USA

• PET08: Ninth Public Economic Theory International Meeting. Seoul, Korea