Publications:
1. "Optimal Contest Design: Tuning the Heat," with Igor Letina and Nick Netzer, Journal of Economic Theory, forthcoming.
2. "When Does Centralization Undermine Adaptation?," with Dimitri Migrow, Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 205, 105533, 2022.
3. "Preference, Confusion and Competition," with Andreas Hefti and Armin Schmutzler, Economic Journal, vol. 132, pp. 1852-81, 2022.
4. "Monotone Equilibria in Signalling Games," with Harry Pei, European Economic Review, vol. 124, 103408, 2020.
5. "Delegating Performance Evaluation," with Igor Letina and Nick Netzer, Theoretical Economics, vol. 15, pp. 477-509, 2020.
6. "Targeted Information and Limited Attention," with Andreas Hefti, RAND Journal of Economics, vol. 51, pp. 402-420, 2020.
7. "On Linear Transformations of Intersections," with Alexey Kushnir, Set-Valued and Variational Analysis, vol. 28, pp. 475-489, 2020.
8. "Voting with Public Information," Games and Economic Behavior, vol 113, pp. 694-719, 2019.
9. "On the Equivalence of Bayesian and Dominant Strategy Implementation for Environments with Non-Linear Utilities,"
with Alexey Kushnir, Economic Theory, vol. 67, pp. 617-644, 2019.
Working Papers:
1. "Happy Times: Measuring Happiness Using Response Times," with Nick Netzer, March 2023.
- Revise & Resubmit at the American Economic Review.
Abstract: Surveys that are designed to measure subjective states like happiness or preferences often generate discrete ordinal data. Ordered response models, which are commonly used to analyze such data, suffer from a fundamental problem. Their conclusions depend on unjustified distributional assumptions about the distribution of a latent variable. In this paper, we propose using survey response times to solve that problem. Response times contain information about the distribution of the latent variable even among subjects who give the same survey response, through a chronometric effect. Using an online survey, we test and verify the existence of the chronometric effect. We then provide theoretical conditions under which group differences in happiness or other variables are detectable based on response time data without making distributional assumptions. In our survey, we find evidence supporting the assumptions of traditional ordered response models for some common survey questions but not for others.
2. "Talent Poaching and Job Rotation," with Diego Battiston and Miguel Espinosa, July 2022.
- Revise & Resubmit at the Management Science.
Abstract: The value of a firm's service lies both in its workers and its relationship with clients. In this paper, we study the interaction between client-specific experience accumulated by workers, poaching behaviour from clients and strategic rotation of workers by firms. Using detailed personnel data from a security-service firm, we show that an increase in client-specific experience increases both the productivity of workers and their probability of being poached. The firm reacts to this risk by rotating workers across multiple clients, and more frequently so to those workers more likely to be poached. We show that after a policy change that prohibited talent poaching, the firm sharply decreased the frequency of rotation which in turn increased workers' productivity. We propose a theoretical model that guides the empirical patterns and allows us to argue their external validity beyond our specific empirical setting.
中文期刊发表 (Publication in Chinese):
1. "有限理性下的集体合作：理论与应用," 与胡涛合作, 《经济学》（季刊），录用待刊。
1. "Optimal Contest Design: Tuning the Heat," with Igor Letina and Nick Netzer, Journal of Economic Theory, forthcoming.
2. "When Does Centralization Undermine Adaptation?," with Dimitri Migrow, Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 205, 105533, 2022.
3. "Preference, Confusion and Competition," with Andreas Hefti and Armin Schmutzler, Economic Journal, vol. 132, pp. 1852-81, 2022.
4. "Monotone Equilibria in Signalling Games," with Harry Pei, European Economic Review, vol. 124, 103408, 2020.
5. "Delegating Performance Evaluation," with Igor Letina and Nick Netzer, Theoretical Economics, vol. 15, pp. 477-509, 2020.
6. "Targeted Information and Limited Attention," with Andreas Hefti, RAND Journal of Economics, vol. 51, pp. 402-420, 2020.
7. "On Linear Transformations of Intersections," with Alexey Kushnir, Set-Valued and Variational Analysis, vol. 28, pp. 475-489, 2020.
8. "Voting with Public Information," Games and Economic Behavior, vol 113, pp. 694-719, 2019.
9. "On the Equivalence of Bayesian and Dominant Strategy Implementation for Environments with Non-Linear Utilities,"
with Alexey Kushnir, Economic Theory, vol. 67, pp. 617-644, 2019.
Working Papers:
1. "Happy Times: Measuring Happiness Using Response Times," with Nick Netzer, March 2023.
- Revise & Resubmit at the American Economic Review.
Abstract: Surveys that are designed to measure subjective states like happiness or preferences often generate discrete ordinal data. Ordered response models, which are commonly used to analyze such data, suffer from a fundamental problem. Their conclusions depend on unjustified distributional assumptions about the distribution of a latent variable. In this paper, we propose using survey response times to solve that problem. Response times contain information about the distribution of the latent variable even among subjects who give the same survey response, through a chronometric effect. Using an online survey, we test and verify the existence of the chronometric effect. We then provide theoretical conditions under which group differences in happiness or other variables are detectable based on response time data without making distributional assumptions. In our survey, we find evidence supporting the assumptions of traditional ordered response models for some common survey questions but not for others.
2. "Talent Poaching and Job Rotation," with Diego Battiston and Miguel Espinosa, July 2022.
- Revise & Resubmit at the Management Science.
Abstract: The value of a firm's service lies both in its workers and its relationship with clients. In this paper, we study the interaction between client-specific experience accumulated by workers, poaching behaviour from clients and strategic rotation of workers by firms. Using detailed personnel data from a security-service firm, we show that an increase in client-specific experience increases both the productivity of workers and their probability of being poached. The firm reacts to this risk by rotating workers across multiple clients, and more frequently so to those workers more likely to be poached. We show that after a policy change that prohibited talent poaching, the firm sharply decreased the frequency of rotation which in turn increased workers' productivity. We propose a theoretical model that guides the empirical patterns and allows us to argue their external validity beyond our specific empirical setting.
中文期刊发表 (Publication in Chinese):
1. "有限理性下的集体合作：理论与应用," 与胡涛合作, 《经济学》（季刊），录用待刊。
