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) : Venue TBA.  
   (1) When Punishment Loses Its Bite: Policy under the Eroding Real Value of Punishment (Choi, WIP, 2026): Dohyun Choi 

2. 2026/03/16 (Monday, 12pm) : Venue TBA.   
   (1) Wage Bargaining Institutions, Technology Licensing, and Welfare  (Sungwan Hong & Seung-Gyu Sim, WP, 2026): Seung-Gyu Sim 

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

4. 2026/03/30 (Monday, 1:10pm-17:30pm) :
   (1) 2026 Yonsei Experimental Method Workshop: Daeyoung Jeong & Duk Gyoo Kim

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

6. 2026/04/13 (Monday, 11:30am) :
   (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) :
   (1) Caution and Reference Effects (Callander & McCarty, AJPS, 2024): Kim Nahyun

8. 2026/05/08 (Friday, TBD) :
   (1) Workshop with the recipient of the Cho Rak-kyo Economics Award

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. 2026/05/18 (Monday, 11:30am) :
    (1) A Choice-Functional Characterization of Welfarism  (Jake Nebel, JET, 2024): Joohee Yoo

(2) Predictability and Power in Legislative Bargaining  (Ali, Bernheim, and Fan, REStud, 2019): Seokhun Jang

12. 2026/05/11 (Monday, 12pm) : 

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

13. 2026/05/18 (Monday, 11:30am) :
    (1) Distinguishing Common Ratio Preferences from Common Ratio Effects Using Paired Valuation Tasks  (McGranaghan, Nielsen, O'Donoghue, Somerville, and Sprenger, AER, 2024): Park Joohyun

14. 2025/06/15 (Monday, 12pm) :
    (1) A Price Theory of Multi-sided Platforms (Weyl, AER, 2010): Wonjin Seo