C.V.
Ying Chen
陈颖
May, 2023
Email: ying.chen@jhu.edu
Current and Past Appointments
July 2018 – present: Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University.
July 2013 – June 2018: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University.
June 2013 – June 2014: Reader, Economics Division, University of Southampton.
August 2005 – May 2013: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University.
Visiting Positions
September 2022 – December 2022: Visiting Fellow, Department of Economics, Princeton University.
May 2019 – August 2019: Visiting Associate Professor, Kyoto Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University.
September 2015 – December 2015: Visiting Assistant Professor, Cowles Foundation, Yale University.
August 2012 – December 2012: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University.
July 2011, Visiting Fellow, CIREQ, University of Montreal.
Research Interests
Game Theory, Economics of Information, Political Economy, Law and Economics.
Education
Ph.D. (2005), Economics, Yale University.
B.A. (1999), Economics, Beijing University.
Awards and Grants
Discovery Award (with Justin Bledin, Chen Cheng, M. Ali Khan and Kyle Rawlins), Johns Hopkins University, 2022.
JHU COVID-19 Research Accelerator Grant, 2022.
Cowles Foundation Prize, Yale University, 2003.
Dissertation Fellowship, Yale University, 2003.
Graduate Student Fellowship, Yale University, 1999-2003.
Awards for Academic Excellence, Beijing University, 1995-1999.
Published and Forthcoming Papers
“Selecting Cheap-Talk Equilibria,” with Navin Kartik and Joel Sobel, Econometrica, January 2008, 117-136.
“Perturbed Communication Games with Honest Senders and Naïve Receivers,” Journal of Economic Theory, March 2011, 401-424, lead article.
“Value of Public Information in Sender-Receiver Games,” Economics Letters, March 2012, 343-345.
“Informational Loss in Bundled Bargaining,” with Hülya Eraslan, Journal of Theoretical Politics, July 2013, 338-362.
“Rhetoric in Legislative Bargaining with Asymmetric Information,” with Hülya Eraslan, Theoretical Economics, May 2014, 483-513.
“Effective Persuasion,” with Wojciech Olszewski, International Economic Review, May 2014, 319-347, lead article.
“Mandatory versus Discretionary Spending: the Status Quo Effect” with Renee Bowen and Hülya Eraslan, American Economic Review, October 2014, 2941-2974, lead article.
“Career Concerns and Excessive Risk Taking,” Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Spring 2015, 110-130.
“Information Transmission in Nested Sender-Receiver Games,” with Sidartha Gordon, Economic Theory, April 2015, 543-569.
“Efficiency of Flexible Budgetary Institutions,” with Renee Bowen, Hülya Eraslan and Jan Zápal, Journal of Economic Theory, January 2017, 148-176.
“Dynamic Agenda Setting,” with Hülya Eraslan, American Economic Journal – Microeconomics, May 2017, 1-32, lead article.
“Learning while Setting Precedents,” with Hülya Eraslan, RAND Journal of Economics, Winter 2020, 1222-1252.
“Sequential Vote Buying,” with Jan Zápal, October 2022, 105529, Journal of Economic Theory.
“When to Ask for an Update – Timing in Strategic Communication,” with Atara Oliver, accepted at Journal of Economic Theory.
“Optimal Group Testing with Heterogeneous Risks,” with Nina Bobkova and Hülya Eraslan, accepted at Economic Theory.
Working Papers and Work in Progress
“Naked Exclusion with Heterogeneous Buyers,” with Jan Zápal.
“Irreversibility, Complementarity, and the Dynamics of Public Good Provision,” with Liuchun Deng, Minako Fujio and M. Ali Khan.
“Comprehensive versus Piecemeal Reforms” with Hülya Eraslan.
“Communication with Two-sided Asymmetric Information” (part of this paper has been incorporated in “Information Transmission in Nested Sender-Receiver Games”).
Teaching Experience
Johns Hopkins University: Game Theory (first-year PhD course); Topics in Game Theory (second-year PhD course); Undergraduate Microeconomic Theory; Game Theory in Social Sciences (undergraduate).
University of Southampton: Master-level Microeconomics.
Arizona State University: Intermediate Microeconomics, Undergraduate Game Theory.
PhD student supervision
Johns Hopkins University: Alice Gao (ongoing), Ani Ghosh (second advisor, ongoing), Osama Khan (second advisor, graduated 2020), Mingjian Wang (second advisor, graduated 2018), Jong Jae Lee (co-advisor, graduated 2017), Sezer Yasar (second advisor, graduated 2017).
Arizona State University: Xiaolin Xue, Fangrui Ouyang (dissertation committee member).
Seminar and Conference Presentations
2023: Kyoto/HKBU/ NTU/Osaka/Sinica joint Theory Seminar, CEPR/Warwick/Princeton/Yale Polecon Syposium, Naval Academy.
2022: University of Arizona, University of Chicago Harris, Virtual Seminar in Economic Theory, Penn State, Princeton.
2021: University of Glasgow, Johns Hopkins, Conference on Social Choice and Voting Theory, Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory Conference.
2020: Princeton, NBER Law and Economics Workshop, World Congress of the Econometric Society.
2019: Kyoto University, Waseda University, AEA Winter Meeting (discussant), NSF Decentralization Conference (Michigan), Workshop on Microeconomic Theory at Chinese University of Hong Kong, Wallis Conference on Political Economy (Rochester), Columbia Political Economy Workshop.
2018: Duke, Arizona State University, Hong Kong Baptist University, Penn State, Georgetown, Workshop on Dynamic Models in Economics at National University of Singapore, Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory Conference in Taipei, Econometric Society Asian Meeting in Seoul, Washington Area Political Economy Workshop.
2017: Southern Methodist University, University of Toronto, Summer Microeconomics Conference at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Conference on Game Theory and Mechanism Design at Zhejiang University, European Summer Symposium in Economic Theory (Gerzensee); Law and Economic Theory Conference at Rice University (discussant).
2016: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Princeton, NSF Decentralization Conference (Brown), Washington PECO Conference (discussant), Cornell Political Economy Conference, Econometric Society North American Summer Meeting (Philadelphia), Stony Brook Law and Economics Workshop, Econometric Society Asia Meeting (Kyoto).
2015: Stanford, National University of Singapore, Columbia, Yale, Canadian Economic Theory Conference (Western Ontario), Society of Economic Design Conference (Bilgi), NBER Conference on Political Economy and Public Finance (discussant), Econometric Society World Congress (Montreal), Wallis Conference on Political Economy (Rochester).
2014: University of York, Michigan State University, Rice University, SITE Summer Workshop (Stanford).
2013: University of Arizona, University of Rochester, University of Pittsburgh, Summer Microeconomics Seminars (University of Hong Kong), Workshop in Bargaining and Politics (Falset).
2012: Shanghai Jiao Tong University, University of Essex, University of Southampton, Michigan State University, Johns Hopkins University, Penn State University, University of Western Ontario, Ryerson University, Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society (Chicago), Southwest Economic Theory Conference (UCSD).
2011: Workshop on Recent Advances in Bargaining Theory (Collegio Carlo Alberto), Conference on Government Expertise: Information and Political Institutions (Vanderbilt University).
2010: Johns Hopkins University, Midwest Mathematical Economics and Theory Conference (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Society for Economic Dynamics Conference (Montreal), Southwest Economic Theory Conference (UCLA).
2009: Midwest Mathematical Economics and Theory Conference (Penn State University), Society of Economic Design Conference (University of Maastricht), Canadian Economic Theory Conference (University of Toronto).
2008: Midwest Mathematical Economics and Theory Conference (Ohio State University).
2007: Canadian Economic Theory Conference (HEC), Stony Brook Game Theory Festival of the Game Theory Society, Workshop on Communication, Game Theory and Language (Northwestern University).
2006: University of Arizona, UCSD, Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society (University of Minnesota), Southwest Economic Theory Conference (Arizona State University).
2005: Arizona State University, University of Iowa, University of Rochester, University of Western Ontario.
2004: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Yale University.
Editorial Service
Associate Editor, American Economic Review -- Insights: January 2023 – present.
Associate Editor, Journal of Mathematical Economics: January 2020 – present.
Associate Editor, Mathematical Social Sciences: January 2021 – present.
Refereeing Service
American Economic Journal-Microeconomics, American Economic Review, American Economic Review – Insight, American Political Science Review, Econometrica, Economic Journal, Economic Theory, Games and Economic Behavior, International Economic Review, International Journal of Industrial Organization, International Journal of Game Theory, International Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Public Economics, NSF, RAND Journal of Economics, Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, Review of Economic Studies, Theoretical Economics.
Conference Organization
Program Committee member of Econometric Society China Meeting 2021.
Program committee member of Society of Institutional and Organizational Economics (SIOE) 2020 Conference.
Co-organizer of Influence and the Media Conference, April 2018.
Co-organizer of Social Networks and Information Conference, April 2017.
Session organizer for Econometric Society China Meeting 2017.
Co-organizer of 2016 NSF/NBER/CEME Conference on Mathematical Economics.
Departmental Service
Diversity Champion (Fall 2020 to present).
Political Economy (Agora Institute and Economics Department) search committee member (2021-2022).
Lecturer search committee member (Spring 2021).
Microeconomics comprehensive exam committee (member 2014-2019, chair 2019-2023).
Graduate admissions committee member (2018-2022).
Theory seminar organizer (Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2018, Fall 2020).
Search committee member in Micro Theory (2017-2018).
Search committee member in Applied Microeconomics (2017-2019).
Search committee member in Micro Theory (2014-2015).