Employment
2022 – Present: Associate Professor, University of York
2018 – 2022: Assistant Professor, University of York
Fall 2016: Visiting Research Fellow, UC Berkeley
2013 – 2018: Post-doctoral Researcher, University of Bonn
Education
Ph.D., Economics, University of Toronto, 2013
MSc., Economics, University of Bonn, 2007
Publications
Innovation Through Competitive Experimentation, Forthcoming, Journal of Mathematical Economics
Relational Enforcement (with Jan Koepfle), Forthcoming, Theoretical Economics
Strategic Investment and Learning with Private Information (with Nicolas Klein), Journal of Economic Theory, 2022
Who Goes First? Strategic Delay under Information Asymmetry, Theoretical Economics, 2018
Unmediated Communication with Partially Verifiable Types, Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2011
Seller Experimentation and Trade, Review of Economic Design, 2022
Current Research
The Tension between Trust and Oversight (with Jan Knoepfle), Working Paper, 2025
The Hidden Cost of Cheap Advice (with Bojia Li), Working Paper, 2025
Certification Markets, Work in Progress
Quality Choice and Buyer Verification, Work in Progress
Efficiency in Innovation Contests (with Tsz-Ning Wong), Work in Progress
Information Governance: Theories of Creating and Disseminating Information (with Jan Knoepfle, Deniz Kattwinkel, and Alexandra Scherf), Work in Progress
Refereed Conferences
Annual Conference of the Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation (MaCCI), 2025
European Workshop in Economic Theory, Manchester, UK, June 2024
European Workshop in Economic Theory, Naples, Italy, June 2023
Durham Economic Theory Workshop, UK, June 2023
Stony Brook Game Theory Conference, US, July 2023
European Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society, Manchester, December 2023
SAET Annual Meeting, Canberra, Australia, July 2022
CMID, Singapore, July 2023
Mathematical Economics and Finance, Manchester, December 2017
North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, June 2017
European Summer Symposium in Economic Theory, July 2017
Canadian Economic Theory Conference, May 2016
SFB Conference, Tutzing, October 2015
Conference Organization
York-Durham-Edinburgh Theory Workshop, 2024
Session at SAET Conference, Ischia 2025, on "New Perspectives on Costly Learning"
Invited Talks
University of Barcelona (scheduled)
University of Copenhagen, September 2023
Symposium in Honor of Sven Rady, Bonn, June 2023
University of Victoria, February 2018
Humboldt University, January 2018
Aalto University, Helsinki, October 2017
Teaching
Advanced Microeconomics (MSc), University of York, 2023
Game Theory, University of York, 2019 – Present
Intermediate Microeconomics, University of York, 2019 – Present
Industrial Organization, University of York, 2018 – 2023
Dynamic Methods for Economists, University of Bonn, 2016 – 2017
Advanced Microeconomic Theory, University of Toronto, 2009 – 2011
Supervision
Ph.D.: Bojia Li (Expected 2026)
M.Sc.:
Yazhuo Zhang, 2023
Yunru Wang, 2023
Yu Xu, 2022
Ishana Vadera, 2022
Shiqi Hu, 2022
Refereeing
Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Theory, Theoretical Economics, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Industrial Economics, Journal of Mathematical Economics, European Economic Review, Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design, Bulletin of Economic Research, Journal of Public Economic Theory
Grants and Awards
Leverhulme Research Fellowship, 2025 (£26,121)
University Research Priming Fund, 2023, (£2,500)
HCM Research Fellowship, Fall 2016
Doctoral Completion Award, 2012
University of Toronto Fellowship, 2007–2011