Zhuoqiong (Charlie) Chen

I am a PhD candidate in Business Economics at the London School of Economics. I am on the job market and available for interviews at the RES in London and the AEA/ASSA in Chicago.

Primary Field of Research:

Microeconomic Theory, Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Political Economy

Secondary Field of Research:

Organizational Economics, Behavioral Finance


Curriculum Vitae and Google Scholar Page


Contact Information: 

Phone: +44 (0)7599 356002

Job Market Paper:

Spying in Contests

Two players compete for a prize and their valuations are private information. Before the contest, each player can covertly acquire a costly, noisy and private signal regarding the opponent's valuation. In equilibrium, each player's effort is non-decreasing (non-increasing) in the posterior probability that the opponent has the same (a different) valuation. Accounting for the cost of spying, players are strictly better off than not spying on each other at all. Suppose instead that without incurring any cost to any player, each player can ex ante commit to disclose a signal about her valuation to the opponent, but cannot observe realizations of the signal. Then there does not exist any equilibrium in which both players disclose an informative signal to the opponent, even though doing so would benefit both players.


Publications:

"The Gender Difference in the Value of Winning" (with David Ong and Roman Sheremeta). Economics Letters, 2015, 137, 226-229. (Coverage: Phys.org, Psych Central)


Working Papers:

"Heterogeneous Risk/Loss Aversion in Complete Information All-Pay Auctions" (with David Ong and Ella Segev). R&R at European Economic Review

"Persistent Bias in Advice-Giving" (with Tobias Gesche). (Coverage: Oxford Business Law Blog )

"Information Disclosure in Contests: Private vs. Public Signals" (Draft available upon request)

"Competition between and within Universities: Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of Group Identity and the Desire to Win" (with David Ong and Roman Sheremeta). 


Work in Progress:

"Bidding under the Illusion of Transparency" (with Kristof Madarasz)

"Information Acquisition in Bidding Games"


Teaching Experiences:

MG207 Managerial Economics (Teaching Assistant), 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17

MG205 Competitive Strategy and Game Theory (Teaching Assistant), 2015, 2016

MG106 Strategic Management (Teaching Assistant), 2015