About Me

I am currently an Assistant Professor of Economics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.  I enjoy doing research in microeconomic theory and behavioral economics.  My recent projects study information design with applications to the digital economy.

I obtained my Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University in June 2019.   Afterward I taught at Southwest Baptist University for one year and then moved to Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2020.  

Here is my CV.

Publications

Impact of Open-Mindedness on Information Avoidance: Tailored vs. Generic Communication (with Siyu Wang)

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics  108, 2024

Revealing Information in Auctions: The Optimal Auction versus the Second-Price Auction (with Alina Arefeva)

Economics Letters  204, 2021 

On the Value of Repetition for Communication Games

Games and Economic Behavior 127, 2021, 227-246

Learning From Like-Minded People

Games and Economic Behavior 126, 2021, 231-250

Robust Contracting with Additive Noise (with Gabriel Carroll)

      Journal of Economic Theory 166, 2016, 586-604

Locally Robust Contracts for Moral Hazard (with Gabriel Carroll)

      Journal of Mathematical Economics 62, 2016, 36-51

Miscellaneous

Evolution and God are Compatible 

Vox Clara, 2020

Incentives and Reason: An Economic Approach to Apologetics

An Opinion Article for Southwest Baptist University's Apologetics Seminar

Is Any Belief Rational?  

Passion Talks 2018 at Google's Headquarter in Mountain View, CA. 

Why did I switch from math to economics?  

An Interview with the MIT Math Majors Magazine, 2013.