Lester Chan

I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Economics & Gregory and Paula Chow Center for Economic Research 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

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
Algorithm-Based Platform Envelopment, (with Liang Chen and Zhou Zhou) revise and resubmit at Academy of Management Review
Joint Design of Team Production Technology and Performance Pay
Signed Weighted Potential Games and Potential Minimaximization: Application to Multi-Agent Contracting