Wanchang Zhang
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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.
Working Papers
Working Papers
Random Double Auction: A Robust Bilateral Trading Mechanism (Job Market Paper), October 2025
• 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, August 2025
Correlation-Robust Optimal Auctions, October 2024
Auctioning Multiple Goods without Priors, August 2025
Robust Private Supply of A Public Good, December 2024
Talks
Talks
2026: CMID conference (scheduled)
2025: Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Singapore Management University, National University of Singapore, Greater Bay Area Economics Conference, Wuhan University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Peking University, 2025 Shanghai Micro Theory Workshop, SAET 2025, The 14th Conference on Economic Design, 2025 World Congress
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
Teaching Experience
Teaching Experience
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
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