Micro Theory Reading Group – Fall 2025

DateSpeakerPaper
Sep 2Lin YutingHow do digital advertising auctions impact product prices? The Review of Economic Studies
Sep 10Chunyu ZhaoA supply and demand framework for two-sided matching markets. Journal of Political Economy
Sep 16Liu XinghanArtificial intelligence, distributional fairness, and pivotality. European Economic Review
Sep 23Mai FeifeiIncentives to Exercise. Econometrica
Oct 14Wu ShuyuanSocial learning with partial and aggregate information: Experimental evidence. Games and Economic Behavior
Oct 21Yingzixuan ZhouThe motivated memory of noise. Games and Economic Behavior
Oct 28Liu Fangyu; Yin JunhePolitical Parties, Supply-Side Strategies, and Firms: The Political Micro-Economy of Partisan Politics. The Journal of Politics
Nov 11Ji YonghangBad Reputation due to Incompetent Expert. Journal of Economic Theory; conditionally accepted
Nov 18Guo XuSuperiority-Seeking and the Preference for Exclusion. Review of Economic Studies
Nov 25Lin YutingJudicial Mechanism Design. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
Dec 2Liu XinghanOptimal Allocation via Waitlists: Simplicity Through Information Design. The Review of Economic Studies

Micro Theory Reading Group – Spring 2025

DateSpeakerPaper
Feb 11Tong XiaoBoston versus deferred acceptance in an interim setting: An experimental investigation
Feb 18Lin YutingProduct Innovation by a Durable-Good Monopoly
Feb 25Zhao ChunyuHakimov, R., Kübler, D., & Pan, S. (2023). Costly information acquisition in centralized matching markets. Quantitative Economics 14(4), 1447–1490.
Mar 4Guo XuBarbieri, S., & Serena, M. (2024). Winner’s effort in multi-battle team contests. Games and Economic Behavior 145, 526–556.
Mar 11Ji YonghangLi, J., Matouschek, N., & Powell, M. (2017). Power dynamics in organizations.
Mar 18Huang MinxingChanging collective action: Nudges and team decisions. Florian Diekert & Tillmann Eymess.
Mar 25Lin YutingInformation transmission in voluntary disclosure games
Apr 1Tong XiaoCai, X., Lu, Y., Pan, J., & Zhong, S. (2019). Gender Gap under Pressure: Evidence from China's National College Entrance Examination. Review of Economics and Statistics 101(2), 249–263.
Apr 8Ji YonghangDe Clippel, G., Eliaz, K., Fershtman, D., & Rozen, K. (2021). On selecting the right agent.
Apr 15Huang MinxingClubs and networks. Sihua Ding, Marcin Dziubiński, Sanjeev Goyal.
Apr 22Guo XuKubitz, G. & Woodward, K. (2020). Sharing Cost Information in Dynamic Oligopoly.
Apr 29Zhao ChunyuPan, S. (2019). The instability of matching with overconfident agents. Games and Economic Behavior 113, 396–415.
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