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News and Events:
[1] Slides for my presentation at the Econometrica Session during the 2025 ASSA meeting
[2] I will be presenting at 2025 Stony Brook Game Theory Conference/Warwick Theory Workshop
[3] I am visiting Duke University during the 2024-2025 academic year
[3.1] Reading list on mechanism design without transfer (Econ 885, Spring 2025)
[3.2] 2025 Spring reading group

 

Broadcasting:
[1] 2025 Triangle Conference featured an exciting mix of theoretical and empirical papers
[2] The Women in Economic Theory Conference 2025 was held on May 2-3 at Yale
[2.1] WiET 2025 discussion slides
[3] WiET 2026 will will be held on May 15-16 at LSE
Publications:
[1] Dynamic Delegation of Experimentation, American Economic Review, 2016, 106(8):1969-2008 (Lead article) [slides] [online appendix: optimal contract with transfers] [bib]

[2] Modes of Persuasion Toward Unanimous Consent, Theoretical Economics, 2018, 13(3):1111-1149 (with Arjada Bardhi) [slides] [bib]

[3] The Interval Structure of Optimal Disclosure, Econometrica, 2019, 87(2):653-675 (with Eran Shmaya) [slides] [online appendix] [a continuous-type example] [bib]

[4] The Use and Misuse of Coordinated Punishments, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2021, 136(1):471-504 (with Daniel Barron) [online appendix] [bib]

[5] Costly Miscalibration, Theoretical Economics, 2021, 16(2):477-506 (with Eran Shmaya) [slides] [bib]

[6] Information Transmission and Voting, Economic Theory, 2021, 72(3):835-868 [bib]

[7] Wealth Dynamics in Communities, Review of Economic Studies, 2023, 90(4):1642-1668 (with Daniel Barron and Bryony Reich) [bib]

[8] Regret-Minimizing Project Choice, Econometrica, 2023, 91(5):1567-1593 (Lead article, with Eran Shmaya) [slides] [why do I like the paper] [bib]

[9] Robust Monopoly Regulation,  American Economic Review, 2025, 115(2):599-634 (with Eran Shmaya) [supplement] [slides] [why do I like the paper] [bib]  

[10] Optimal Discriminatory Disclosure, Journal of Economic Theory, 2025, 224: 105972 (with Li, Hao and Xianwen Shi) [bib]  

Working papers:

[11] Formal and Real Organ Allocation (with Xuyang Xia) [Draft coming soon]

[12] Early-Career Discrimination: Spiraling or Self-Correcting? (with Arjada Bardhi and Bruno Strulovici, updated 07/2024) [supplement] [slides] R&R at ReStud

[13] The Value of Multistage Persuasion (with Eran Shmaya, first draft 12/2018)

[14] Private Learning and Exit Decisions in Collaboration (with Anne-Katrin Roesler)

[15] Dynamic Allocation without Money (with Johannes Hörner, updated 07/2018)

Grant:
NSF Grant SES-1530608 “Dynamic Mechanisms without Transfer” joint with Johannes Hörner (2015-2019)