Research

Working Papers (reverse chronological order of the last revised versions)

All the working papers are available at the department [IDEAS]  or my [SSRN] or both

Membership Mechanism, June 2024

On the Origin of Polarization (with John Duffy), Feb 2024

Organizational Design with Non-Contractible Quality, Dec 2023

Grand Mechanism and Population Uncertainty  (with Bara Kim), Feb 2023

Optimal Design for an Informed Auctioneer, Oct 2018

Unobserved Investment, Signaling, and Welfare (with Gea M. Lee), Nov 2017

A Theory of Group Inequality, Aug 2013 

(a proportion of this paper was incorporated into Incentives for Discrimination)

Published and forthcoming papers (SSCI-Listed)

Matching Strategic Agents on a Two-Sided Platform (with Masaki Aoyagi), Games and Economic Behavior, 135 (2022), 271-296 

Entry Deterrence and Free Riding in License Auctions (with Biung-Ghi Ju), B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 22 (2022), 199-231

Population Uncertainty and Revealing Contestants (with Bara Kim), Economics Letters, 199 (2021), 109727

Incentives for Discrimination (with Sue H. Mialon), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 136 (2017), 141-160

Learning a Population Distribution Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 48 (2014), 188-201

An Alternative Proof for the Existence of Radner Equilibria Mathematical Social Sciences, 66 (2013), 87-90

Strategic Analysis of Influence Peddling (with Mukul Majumdar), International Journal of Game Theory, 41 (2012), 737-762 

Market Selection with Endogenous Information Revelation (with Scott Condie), International Journal of Economic Theory, 7 (2011), 201-215

Coordinating under Incomplete Information (with Geir Asheim), Review of Economic Design, 12 (2008), 293-313 

Petty Corruption Economic Theory, 37 (2008), 267-280