Contact: joonsong.econ@gmail.com
Employment
Associate Professor (tenured), Department of Economics, Sungkyunkwan University (성균관 대학교), Seoul, Korea, 2012 ~ current
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Sungkyunkwan University (성균관 대학교), Seoul, Korea, 2011 ~ 2012
Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Department of Economics, University of Essex, United Kingdom, 2006 ~ 2011
Education
PhD in Economics, UCLA, June 2006 (Advisor: Joseph M. Ostroy)
M.A. in Economics, Seoul National University, Feb. 2001
B.A. in Mathematics, Seoul National University, Feb. 1997
Working papers
Listen to the market, hear the best policy decision, but don’t always choose it (With Surajeet Chakravarty and David Reinstein)
Positively Homogeneous Saddle-Functions and Euler’s Theorem in Games (with Joseph M. Ostroy)
Price-taking in Economics and Games (with Joseph M. Ostroy), online appendix
Robust Quantum Correlated Equilibrium and Interstellar Contracts
Published papers
Auctioning Business Licenses to Engage in Cournot Competition (with Myeonghwan Cho), Economics Letters, 210, January 2022
Price signalling differentiated experience goods: are uniform movie prices a puzzle? (with In-Uck Park), Korean Economic Review, 37(1), Winter 2021
Optimal Team Contests to Induce More Efforts (with Dongryul Lee), Journal of Sports Economics, April 2019, 20 (3), 448-476
Strategic Delegation, Quality Competition, and New Product Profitability (with Hyun Shin, Jongtae Shin, Shijin Yoo, Alex Kim), Management Decision, 53 (3), 713-729
Hidden Saving and In-kind Transfers , Journal of Economic Theory and Econometrics, Volume 25 (3), September 2014, 63-80 (with Dongwon Lee)
A Note on Using Excessive Perks to Restrain the Hidden Saving Problem (with YiLi Chein), Macroeconomic Dynamics, Volume 18 / Issue 02 /March 2014, pp 480-496
Perks in Long-term Contracts (with YiLi Chein and Minseong Kim), Korean Economic Review, Volume 29 (1), 2013
Futures Market: Contractual Agreement to Restrain Moral Hazard in Teams, Economic Theory, Volume 51, September 2012, 163-189
Efficient Consumer Altruism and Fair Trade Products (with David Reinstein, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Volume 21 (1), Spring 2012, 213–241
Contractual Matching of Finite Economy: Limits of Decentralization, Journal of Economic Theory and Econometrics, Vol 22 (2), June 2011, 92-12
Conjugate Duality of Correlated Equilibrium (with Joseph M. Ostroy), Journal of Mathematical Economics, vol. 45 (12), December 2009
Signal Jamming in Pretrial Negotiation with Multiple Defendants (with Jeong-Yoo Kim), Journal of Economics, vol. 91(2), June 2007
Dormant projects
Perks as Second Best Optimal Compensations (with Alberto Bennardo and Pierre-Andre Chiappori)
Ex-Post Individually Rational, Budget-Balanced Mechanisms and Allocations of Surplus (with Sergei Severinov), RnR at JET
Referee Activities
Economic Journal, Theoretical Economics, International Economic Review, Games and Economic Behavior, Economic Theory, Journal of Economics, Journal of Public Economic Theory