Current Position
Professor of Economics, Emory University
Working Papers
Choosing Your Own Luck: Strategic Risk Taking and Effort in Contests, with R. Vijay Krishna and Dmitry Ryvkin
Optimal Communication in Banking Supervision, with Jeong Ho (John) Kim, Victoria Liu, and Noam Tanner
Competitive Advertising and Pricing, with Ilwoo Hwang and Raphael Boleslavsky
Old versions: June 2019, January 2023
Pricing and Consumer Surplus in Monopoly with Product Design, with Nenad Kos
Statistical Discrimination in Ratings-Guided Markets, with Yeon-Koo Che and Weijie Zhong
Bayesian Persuasion and Moral Hazard, with Raphael Boleslavsky
Publications
"Sherlocking" and Platform Information Policy, with Jay Pil Choi and Arijit Mukherjee, Management Science, forthcoming (Working paper version)
Persuasion in Veto Bargaining, with Jenny S. Kim and Richard Van Weelden, American Journal of Political Science, 2025, Vo. 69, No. 3, pp. 1115–1127 (Working paper version)
AJPS blog post briefly explaining this paper
Unemployment Duration under Flexible Information Acquisition, with Jeong Ho (John) Kim and Marilyn Pease, International Economic Review, 2024, Vol. 65, No. 1, pp. 471–503 (Working paper version)
Keeping the Listener Engaged: a Dynamic Model of Bayesian Persuasion, with Yeon-Koo Che and Konrad Mierendorff, Journal of Political Economy, 2023, Vol. 13, No. 7, pp. 1797–1844
Our dear friend and coauthor, Konrad Mierendorff, passed away on August 7, 2021 (UCL Tribute to Konrad). We will tremendously miss him.
Auctions with Flexible Information Acquisition, with Youngwoo Koh, Games and Economic Behavior, 2022, Vol. 133, pp. 256–281
Bayesian Persuasion and Information Design: Perspectives and Open Issues, with Emir Kamenica and Andriy Zapechelnyuk, editorial to the ET Special Issue on Communication and Persuasion, Economic Theory, 2021, Vol. 72, pp. 701–704
Selling a Lemon under Demand Uncertainty, with Sun Hyung Kim, International Economic Review, 2019, Vol. 60, No. 1, pp. 75-103
Efficiency and Revenue in Asymmetric Auctions, with Youngwoo Koh, Korean Economic Review, 2019, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 371–391
Optimal Information Design for Search Goods, with Michael Choi and Marilyn Pease, AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2019, Vol. 109, pp. 550-556
Consumer Search and Price Competition, with Michael Choi and Anovia (Yifan) Dai, Econometrica, 2018, Vol. 86, No. 4, pp. 1257-1281.
Trading Dynamics with Private Buyer Signals in the Market for Lemons, with Ayca Kaya, Review of Economic Studies, 2018, Vol. 85, No. 4, pp. 2318-2352
Costly Search with Adverse Selection: Solicitation Curse vs. Acceleration Blessing, with Marilyn Pease, RAND Journal of Economics, 2017, Vol. 48, No. 2, pp. 526-553
Information about Sellers' Past Behavior in the Market for Lemons, Journal of Economic Theory, 2017, Vol. 169, pp. 365-399.
Information Spillovers, Gains from Trade, and Interventions in Frozen Markets, with Braz Camargo and Ben Lester, Review of Financial Studies, 2016, Vol. 29, No. 5, pp. 1291-1329.
Efficient Competition through Cheap Talk: The Case of Competing Auctions, with Philipp Kircher, Econometrica, 2015, Vol. 83, No. 5, pp. 1849-1875.
Public Offers in the Market for Lemons with Large Discounting, Economics Letters, 2015, Vol. 130, pp. 63-65.
Honesty vs. Advocacy, with Jonathan Pogach, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2014, Vol. 105, pp. 51-74.
Information Acquisition in a War of Attrition, with Frances Xu Lee, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2014, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 37-78.
Endogenous Market Segmentation for Lemons, RAND Journal of Economics, 2012, Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 562-576.
Robustness of the Uniqueness of Walrasian Equilibrium with Log-Linear Utilities, with David Cass, Abhinash Borah, Maxym Kryshko, Antonio Penta, and Jonathan Pogach, in "The Collected Works of David Cass - Part C", Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2011.
The Coase Conjecture with Incomplete Information on the Monopolist's Commitment, Theoretical Economics, 2009, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 17-44.