Lester Chan

I am an Assistant Professor at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) Business School. Before that, I was an Assistant Professor in Economics at Xiamen University. I received my Ph.D. in Economics from Boston University in 2021.

My research fields are microeconomic theory and industrial organization, focusing on contract theory, business economics, platforms, and potential games.

You can find my CV here.

You can contact me at lesterchantl[at]gmail[dot]com.

Publications

Algorithm Envelopment in Platform Markets, (with Liang Chen and Zhou Zhou), Academy of Management Review, forthcoming.
Quality Strategies in Network Markets, Management Science, 70(3): 1992-2002 (2024).
Divide and Conquer in Two-Sided Markets: A Potential-Game Approach, The RAND Journal of Economics, 52(4): 839-858 (2021).

Working Papers

Weight-Ranked Divide-and-Conquer Contracts, revise and resubmit at Theoretical Economics
Joint Design of Team Production Technology and Performance Pay
Signed Weighted Potential Games and Potential Minimaximization: Application to Multi-Agent Contracting