Yonsei Microeconomics
Reading Group

• Fall 2025 Schedule

• Attendance list 

Dohyun Choi, Wonjin Seo, Seokhun Jang, Hyunhak Kim, Jiahn Lee, Jaewon Jang,

Jeongyeon Sin, Yeeun Kim, Juha Bae, Soobin Kim, Dabin Kim

1. 2025/09/01 (Monday, 12pm)
   (1) Optimal Feedback Dynamics Against Free-Riding in Collective Experimentation: Hülya Eraslan (Rice University) paper

2. 2025/09/15 (Monday, 12pm)
   (1) Present Bias in Politics and Self-Committing Treaties (Bård Harstad & Anke Kessler, WP, 2025): Dohyun Choi slides

3. 2025/09/22 (Monday, 12pm)
   (1) Dynamic Freemium Model with Virtuous Cycle: Free Quality and Premium Price Decision (Juha Bae, WIP, 2025): Juha Bae slides

4. 2025/09/29 (Monday, 12pm)
   (1) Persuasion Meets Delegation (Anton Kolotilin, Andriy Zapechelnyuk, Econometrica, 2025): Jiahn Lee slides

5. 2025/10/13 (Monday, 12pm)
   (1) Who Controls the Agenda Controls the Legislature (S. Nageeb Ali et al., AER, 2023): Seokhun Jang slides

6. 2025/10/20 (Monday, 12pm)
   (1) Consumer Privacy and the Market for Customer Information (Taylor, RAND, 2004) &

Conditioning Prices on Purchase History (Acquisti & Varian, Marketing Science, 2005) : Wonjin Seo slides

7. 2025/11/03 (Monday, 12pm)
   (1) Caution and Reference Effects (Simone Cerreia-Vioglio, David Dillenberger, Pietro Ortoleva, Econometrica, 2024): Dabin Kim slides

8. 2025/11/10 (Monday, 12pm)
   (1) The Welfare Effects of Social Media (Hunt Allcott, Luca Braghieri, Sarah Eichmeyer, Matthew Gentzkow, AER, 2020): Yeeun Kim slides

9. 2025/11/17 (Monday, 12pm)
   (1) Designing Domestic Digital Currency: Market Structure, Platform Competition, and Monetary Sovereignty: Bong-Geun Choi

10. 2025/11/24 (Monday, 12pm)
    (1) Information Acquisition and Product Differentiation Perception (G Biglaiser, J Gu, and F Li, AEJ:Micro, 2025): Jaewon Jang slides

11. 2025/12/01 (Monday, 12pm)

(1) Improving Information from Manipulable Data (Frankel & Kartik, JEEA, 2022): Hyunhak Kim slides

12. 2025/11/17 (Monday, 12pm)
    (1) A Foundation for Efficiency Wage Contracts (Zhu, AEJ: Micro, 2018): Soobin Kim slides