Wanchang Zhang
Wanchang Zhang
I am currently an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. I earned my Ph.D. in Economics from UC San Diego in June 2023. I study microeconomic theory, with a focus on mechanism design and information design.
Random Double Auction: A Robust Bilateral Trading Mechanism (Job Market Paper), May 2024
• Revise & Resubmit at the American Economic Review
• Extended Abstract at EC '22: Proceedings of the 23nd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation
Distributionally Robust Auction Design, with Nir Bachrach, Yi-Chun Chen, Inbal Talgam-Cohen and Xiangqian Yang, July 2024
Correlation-Robust Optimal Auctions, October 2023
Auctioning Multiple Goods without Priors, August 2023
Robust Private Supply of A Public Good, December 2022
2025: Singapore Management University (scheduled), National University of Singapore (scheduled), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (scheduled)
2024: The 2024 ASSA Annual Meeting, The 2024 North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, The 2024 Conference on Mechanism and Institution Design, The 7th World Congress of the Game Theory Society, CUHK-CUHK(SZ) Joint Theory Workshop
2023: The 2023 North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, The 2023 Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society in China, Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society in Singapore 2023, The 22st Annual SAET Conference, The Southwest Economic Theory Conference in UC Irvine 2023, Microeconomic Theory Workshop at Renmin University of China, The 38th Meeting of the European Economic Association and the 75th European Meeting of the Econometric Society
2022: The Twenty-Third ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC'22), The 2022 North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society in China 2022, The 2022 Australasia Meeting of the Econometric Society, The 33rd Stony Brook International Conference on Game Theory, The 21st Annual SAET Conference, 2022 Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society in East and South-East Asia
2021: Australian Economic Theory Workshop
Instructor (2023 - Present): Basic Microeconomics (Undergraduate), Microeconomic Theory II (PhD)
Teaching Assistant (2018 - 2023): Game Theory, Microeconomics, Operations Research, Financial Markets, Market Microstructure, Mathematical Economics, Econometrics, Decisions Under Uncertainty, Globalization, Economics of Environment