Yonsei Microeconomics
Reading Group

• Spring 2026 Schedule

• Attendance list  (alphabetical order of  surname)

Dohyun Choi, Eunjung Choi, Seokhun Jang, Seung-yu Jeon, Hyun-gyu Kang, Darin Kim, Doosung Kim, Nahyun Kim, Yeeun Kim,

 Jiahn Lee, Joohyun Park, Daheon Rhee, Wonjin Seo, Jeongyeon Shin, Joohee Yoo

1. 2026/03/09 (Monday, 12pm): Room 323, Daewoo Hall
   (1) "When Punishment Loses Its Bite: Policy under the Eroding Real Value of Punishment" (Choi, WIP, 2026): Dohyun Choi slides 

2. 2026/03/16 (Monday, 12pm): Room 323, Daewoo Hall
   (1) "Wage Bargaining Institutions, Technology Licensing, and Welfare"  (Sungwan Hong & Seung-Gyu Sim, WP, 2026): Seung-Gyu Sim paper

3. 2026/03/23 (Monday, 12pm):  Room 323, Daewoo Hall
   (1) "Organizing for Collective Action: Olson Revisited"  (Battaglini & Palfrey, JPE, 2024): Jeon Seungyu slides

4. 2026/03/30 (Monday, 1:10pm-5:30pm):  Room 323, Daewoo Hall
   (1) 2026 Yonsei Experimental Method Workshop: Daeyoung Jeong & Duk Gyoo Kim

5. 2026/04/06 (Monday, 11:30am): Room 323, Daewoo Hall
   (1) "Constraining to Deter"  (Di Lonardo & Tyson, AJPS, 2026): Daheon Rhee

6. 2026/04/13 (Monday, 11:30am): Room 323, Daewoo Hall
   (1) "Choice or Competition: Does Integration Benefit Everyone?" (Kamada & Kojima, TE, 2026): Darin Kim

(2) "The Walras-Bowley Lecture: Fragmentation of Matching Markets and How Economics Can Help Integrate Them" (Kamada, Kojima, and Matsushita, WP, 2025): Jiahn Lee

7. 2026/04/20 (Monday, 12pm): Room 323, Daewoo Hall
   (1) "Caution and Reference Effects" (Callander & McCarty, AJPS, 2024): Kim Nahyun

8. 2026/05/08 (Friday, 11:30am-12:45pm):  Room 323, Daewoo Hall
   Workshop with the recipient of the Cho Rak-kyo Economics Award

    (1) "Top Trading Cycles and Nonempty Cores in Housing Markets with Limited Externalities": Jaeok Park

     (2) "Optimal Imperfect Collusion: Price Randomization and Favor Exchanges in Cartels": Jihwan Do

9. 2026/05/11 (Monday, 12pm):
   (1) "A Dynamic Model of Predation" (Rey, Spiegel, and Stahl, RAND, 2025): Hyun-gyu Kang

10. 2026/05/18 (Monday, 12pm):
    (1) "Anti-social norms" (Fergusson, Guerra, and Robinson, WP, 2024): Jeongyeon Shin

11. 2026/06/01 (Monday, 12pm): 

(1) "Early-Career Discrimination: Spiraling or Self-Correcting?"  (Bardhi, Guo, and Strulovici, WP, 2024): Yeeun Kim

12. 2026/06/08 (Monday, 11:30am):
    (1) "A Choice-Functional Characterization of Welfarism"  (Jake Nebel, JET, 2024): Joohee Yoo

(2) "Distinguishing Common Ratio Preferences from Common Ratio Effects Using Paired Valuation Tasks"  (McGranaghan, Nielsen, O'Donoghue, Somerville, and Sprenger, AER, 2024): Park Joohyun

13. 2025/06/15 (Monday, 12pm):
    (1) "A Price Theory of Multi-sided Platforms" (Weyl, AER, 2010): Wonjin Seo