Background      

2018.09-Present    Assistant  Professor           Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China

2013.09-2018.02    Ph.D.       Economics         University of York, UK

2011.09-2013.01    MSc         Economics         University of York, UK

2007.09-2011.07    BSc          Finance             Hefei University of Technology, China

Research Fields

Microeconomics, Mechanism design, Matching theory,  Health economics, Game theory and Evolutionary game theory

Publications

1. Yao Cheng and Zaifu Yang, (2021). “Efficient Kidney Exchange with Dichotomous Preferences,” Journal of Health Economics, 80, 102536. 

2. 王湛，程瑶, (2022). “社会公共资源动态分配频率与效率”《经济学》（季刊）, 22(4), 1319-1342 

   Zhan Wang and Yao Cheng, (2022). “Frequency and Efficiency of Dynamic Public Resources Allocation Problems,” China Economic Quarterly, 22(4), 1319-1342.

3. Yao Cheng, Dazhong Wang, and Jingsheng Yu. "On the existence of a strong Nash equilibrium under the efficiency-adjusted deferred acceptance mechanism," Games and Economic Behavior, forthcoming

Working Papers

Market Design, Matching Theory, Game Theory

1. Proper Exclusion Right, Priority and Allocation of Positions (with Z. Yang and J. Yu) 

2. Stable matching mechanism under distributional constraints (with Z. Yang) 

4. A Decomposition Method for Multi-Period Dynamic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Exchange Problems (with Z. Wang, L. Qin, J. Hu) 

5. The Control-Exclusion Core for Priority-Based Allocation Problems (with J. Yu) 

6. Efficiency in hematopoietic stem cell exchange problems (with L. Li and Z. Wang)  

7. “Affordable Housing: A Market Design Approach” (with C. Hsu and J. Yu)

Evolutionary game theory

1. Evolutionary stability of group-oriented cooperation in indirect reciprocity (with J. Yu and X. Zhang) 

2. Group indirect reciprocity: should good norms reward cooperation or punish free riders? (with L. Wei and J. Yu)

Foundations

1. 主持，国家自然科学基金青年项目，“一般肾源交换机制及其应用于中国的研究”，72203176，2023.01-2025.12，在研

    National Natural Science Foundation of China Youth Project

2. 主持，西南财经大学，光华英才工程青年教师成长计划，2022.01-2024.01，在研

    Southwest University of Finance and Economics, Guanghua Young Faculty Program   

3. 主持，西南财经大学，“中央高校基本业务费专项资金项目”， 2020.05-2021.05，符合中国器官分配原则的肾源交换， 已结项

4. 主持，西南财经大学，“中央高校基本科研业务费专项资金”青年教师成长项目，JBK1902034，2019.01-2020.12，关于肾源交换机制及其应用于中国的研究，已结项

Teaching Experience

Market and Mechanism Design (postgraduate), Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, 2023-2024

Market and Mechanism Design (undergraduate), Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, 2019-2023

Economics (undergraduate), Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, 2018-2023

Economics I (undergraduate), University of York, 2016-2017

Mathematics II (undergraduate), University of York, 2015-2017

Macroeconomics I (undergraduate), University of York, 2014-2016 

Conference Presentation

2024 Conference on Mechanism and Institution Design, Budapest, Hungary, 07/2024

The 13th conference on economic design, Girona, Spain, 06/2023

Tsinghua Conference on Behavioral, Experimental and Theoretical Economics, Beijing, China  05/2023

2022 Conference on Mechanism and Institution Design, 07/2022

The 6th World Congress of the Game Theory Society, 07/2021    

Online Conference on Mechanism and Institution Design 2020, 06/2020

Workshop on Game Theory and Microeconomics, Nanjing, China, 10/2018

2018 International Conference on Economic Theory, Chengdu, 07/2018

Royal Economic Society Ph.D. Meetings, Westminster Business School, 12/2017

The 10th Bi-Annual Conference on Economic Design, York, 06/2017

China Meeting of the Econometric Society, Wuhan, 06/2017 

White Rose Economics Ph.D. The conference, Sheffield, 04/2017

Workshops at the Department of Economics, University of York, 07/2015

Scholarships and Awards 

Teaching Excellence, Southwestern University  of Finance and Economics, 2020-2021

Department Full Scholarship, University of York, 2013-2017

Ellis Hunter Teaching Scholarship, University of York, 2014-2017

Certificate Letter of Teaching Excellence, University of York, 2015-2016

Top 1 Graduate Student in MSc Economics, University of York, 2012

Distinction Student in Anhui Province, China, 2011

Department Scholarship, Hefei University of Technology, China, 2008-2011

National Scholarship of China, 2008