I am an Assistant Professor at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) Business School. I received my Ph.D. in Economics from Boston University in 2021.
My research interests lie in microeconomic theory, industrial organization, and political economy, with a particular focus on the economic applications of potential games.
You can find my CV here.
You can contact me at lesterchantl[at]gmail[dot]com.
Algorithm Envelopment in Platform Markets (with Liang Chen and Zhou Zhou), Academy of Management Review, 51(1): 187–206 (2026).
Weight-Ranked Divide-and-Conquer Contracts, Theoretical Economics, 20(3): 857–882 (2025).
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).
Buying Votes to Maximize the Potential
Joint Design of Team Production Technology and Performance Pay
Signed Weighted Potential Games and Potential Minimaximization: Application to Multi-Agent Contracting