Xiaoming Cai

I am an associate professor of economics at Peking University HSBC Business School, Shenzhen. I did my PhD at VU Amsterdam under the supervision of Pieter Gautier. My research is mainly about macroeconomics and labor economics. Here is my curriculum vitae. 

Working papers:

1. Search, Sorting, and Screening (with Pieter Gautier and Ronald Wolthoff).  Accepted, 

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

2. Spatial Search (with Pieter Gautier and Ronald Wolthoff),  Revise and Resubmit, 

Journal of Economic Theory

3. On the Existence of Competitive Equilibrium with Complements and Indivisibilities: A Search Perspective (2023) with Jim Albrecht, Pieter Gautier and Susan Vroman

4. Signaling in Competing Auctions (2023) with Jim Albrecht, Pieter Gautieri and Susan Vroman

Publications:

1. On the Foundations of Competitive Search Equilibrium with and without Market Makers, (with James Albrecht , Pieter Gautier and Susan Vroman),  Journal of Economic Theory (2023), 105605 

2. Meetings and mechanisms, (with Pieter Gautier and Ronald Wolthoff),  

International Economic Review (2023), Pages 155-185

3. Efficiency of wage bargaining with on-the-job search, International Economic Review (2020), Pages 1749-1775

4. Multiple Applications, Competing Mechanisms, and Market Power, Journal of Economic Theory  (2020) (with James Albrecht , Pieter Gautier and Susan Vroman)

5. Search Frictions, Competing Mechanisms and Optimal Market Segmentation,

 Journal of Economic Theory (2017), Pages 453-473, (with Pieter Gautier and Ronald Wolthoff)

6. Predictable recoveries, Economica (2016), 307–337, (with Wouter Den Haan and Jonathan Pinder)

7. Minimum prices in a model with search frictions and price posting, Economics Letters (2015), Pages 61-64.

8. Collective versus decentralized wage bargaining and the efficient allocation of resources,  Labour Economics (2014), pp. 34-42. (with Pieter A. Gautier, Coen N. Teulings, and Makoto Watanabe)

Contact: xmingcai@gmail.com