Research

Working Papers

• Monotone Equilibrium Design for Matching Markets with Signaling, with Alex Sam and Youngki Shin

• Competing Mechanisms in Games Played through Agents: Theory and Experiment, with Andrew Leal

• Multidimensional signaling with a Resource Constraint, with Alex Sam

• Repeated Oligopoly with Contracts, with Sambuddha Ghosh 

• Optimal Delegation in Markets for Matching with Signaling, with Alex Sam and Youngki Shin

• Common Agency with Non-Delegation or Imperfect Commitment, with Siyang Xiong     

• Statistical Treatment Rules under Social Interaction, with Julius Owusu and Youngki Shin

• Robust Equilibria in General Competing Mechanism Games

• A Unified Approach to Equilibrium Analysis in Competing Mechanism Games, with Siyang Xiong

• Quasi Ex-Post Equilibrium in Competing Mechanisms

• CEO Pay with Perks, with Andrew Carrothers and Jiaping Qiu

Publications

• Regressiveness of Differentiated Excise Taxation, with Josip Lesica
  Canadian Public Policy, forthcoming

• Monotone Equilibrium in Matching Markets with Signaling, with Alex Sam and Youngki Shin
  Journal of Economic Theory, 216, 2024, 105801

• General Competing Mechanism Games with Strategy-Proof Punishment
  Journal of Mathematical Economics, 102, 2022, 102728

• Sellers' Implicit Collusion in Directed Search Markets
  The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 16, 2016, 711-738

• Robust Competitive Auctions
  Economics Letters, 136, 2015, 207-210.

• Compensating Wage Differentials in Stable Job Matching Equilibrium,  with Shintaro Yamaguchi
  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 114, 2015, 36-45.

• Implicit Collusion in Non-Exclusive Contracting under Adverse Selection
  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 99, 2014, 85-95.

•  Asymmetric First-Price Menu Auctions under Intricate Uncertainty
  Journal of Economic Theory, 148, 2013, 2068-2095. 

• On Take It or Leave It Offers in Common Agency
  Economics Letters, 117, 2012, 777-781.

• A Bargaining Model of Tax Competition, with John Leach
  Journal of Public Economics, 92, 2008, 1122-1141.

• Strongly-Robust Equilibrium and Competing-Mechanism Games
  Journal of Economic Theory, 137, 2007, 610-626.

• Assortative Marriage and the Effects of Government Homecare Subsidy Programs
  on Gender Wage and Participation Inequality, with David Bjerk
  Journal of Public Economics, 91, 2007, 1135-1150.

• Corporate Precautionary Cash Holdings, with Jiaping Qiu
  Journal of Corporate Finance, 13, 2007, 43-57.

• Menu Theorems for Bilateral Contracting
  Journal of Economic Theory, 131, 2006, 157-178, On-line Appendix.