Publications
"Bank Geographic Diversification and Market Competition," (with Shuo Liang and Fernando Moreira) Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance (2025)
"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
"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)
"Matroid Search Problems and Greedy Pandora's Rule''
"A Theory of Endogenous Time Preference: Search-Theoretic Approaches "
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.
Work in Progress
"Multi-Channel Search,'' with Daniel Li
"Finite Search with Learning,'' with Daniel Li
"Search for Strategic Legislators,'' with Hulya Eraslan
"Allocate to Specialize: Positioning Game in Dynamic Media Competition,'' with Sejin Hwang
"Consumer Search with a Deadline,'' with Kwanhui Park
"Fandom effect in recommender systems,'' with Bogeun Kim
"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"
Funded Projects
(National Research Fund of Korea) Optimal Algorithms for Generalized Multi-unit Search Models, (KRW 40M) 2024--2026
(Samsung Research Fund) Advancing Search Models and Algorithms for Multi-Unit and Multi-Attribute Decision-Making: Theory and Applications}, (KRW 20M) 2023--2024
Fintech PhD Scholarship on developing a two-sided token market (with Tong Wang), funded by OnePact.com, Edinburgh Future Institution, and EIT Digital, (approx. GBP 94,000), 2021--2015
Tentop Decentralised marketplace mechanism design (with Tong Wang), Interface Standard Innovation Vouchers Scheme funded by Scottish Funding Council and Scotland CanDo (GBP 4,950), 2019
Visitor Flow Management (with Jake Ansell, Ewelina Lacka, and Tong Wang), Interface Standard Innovation Vouchers Scheme funded by Scottish Funding Council and Scotland CanDo (GBP 4,950), 2019
Mechanism Design with Varying Population, First Grant Venture Fund by University of Edinburgh Business School (GBP 3,950), 2017--2018
Seminars
(2025) Nagoya University, Yonsei University, University of Tokyo,
Chonnam University, Korea (2024)
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
Workshop on Political Economy and Information Economics, Yonsei University , Korea
APIOC 2024 (Asian-Pacific Industrial Organization Conference), Sogang University, Korea
2024 East Asian Theory Conference, Hong Kong University Business School, Hong Kong
EAGT 2024(East Asia Game Theory Conference), Jeju National University, Jeju, Korea
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