Xianwen Shi

Professor of Economics
University of Toronto
150 St. George Street
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G7

STG Office: Max Gluskin House, Room 208
UTM Office: Innovation Complex, Room 3232
Email: xianwen.shi [at] utoronto.ca
Phone: (416) 978-5105

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Research Interests

      Mechanism Design, Information Design, Voting, Search and Matching

Working Papers

• Disinformation in the Wald Model
  (with Florian Brandl), coming soon.
  
  
• Persuading while Learning
  (with Itai Arieli, Yakov Babichenko, Dima Shaiderman), coming soon.
  
  
• Optimal Discriminatory Disclosure
  (with Yingni Guo and Hao Li), revised May 2024.
  
  
• Coasian Equilibria in Sequential Auctions
  (with Qingmin Liu and Konrad Mierendorff), November 2023.
  
  
• Voting on the Flag of the Weimar Republic
  (with Alex Gershkov, Andreas Kleiner, and Benny Moldovanu), December 2023.
  
  
• Advertising Platforms and Privacy
  (with Ruizhi Zhu and Sridhar Moorthy), revised May 2024.
  
  
• Stochastic Sequential Screening
  (with Hao Li), revised August 2024.
  
  
• Welfare of Price Discrimination and Market Segmentation in Duopoly
  (with Jun Zhang), to be revised.
  
  
• Sequential Innovation and Optimal Patent Design
  (with Christian Riis), revised August 2012.
  
  

Published/Forthcoming Papers

• Order Independence in Sequential, Issue-by-Issue Voting
  (with Alex Gershkov and Benny Moldovanu), Mathematics of Operations Research, forthcoming.
  
  
• Voting with Interdependent Values: The Condorcet Winner
  (with Alex Gershkov, Andreas Kleiner, and Benny Moldovanu), Games and Economic Behavior 142, November 2023, 193-208.
  
  
• Monotonic Norms and Orthogonal Issues in Multi-Dimensional Voting
  (with Alex Gershkov and Benny Moldovanu), Journal of Economic Theory 129, September 2020, 105103.
  
  
• Voting on Multiple Issues: What to Put on the Ballot?
  (with Alex Gershkov and Benny Moldovanu), Theoretical Economics 14(2), May 2019, 555-596.
  Previously circulated under the title of "The Dimensions of Consensus."
  
  
• Auctions with Limited Commitment
  (with Qingmin Liu, Konrad Mierendorff and Weijie Zhong), American Economic Review 109(3), March 2019, 876-910.
  
  
• Discriminatory Information Disclosure
  (with Hao Li), American Economic Review 107(11), November 2017, 3363-3385.
  
  
• Optimal Voting Rules
  (with Alex Gershkov and Benny Moldovanu), Review of Economic Studies 84(2), April 2017, 688-717.
  Previously circulated under the title "Optimal Mechanism Design without Money."
  
  
• Becker Meets Ricardo: Multisector Matching with Communication and Cognitive Skills
  (with Robert J. McCann, Aloysius Siow, and Ronald Wolthoff),
  Journal of Law, Economics and Organization 31(4), November 2015, 690-720.
  
  
• Academic Wages and Pyramid Schemes: A Mathematical Model
  (with Alice Erlinger, Robert J. McCann, Aloysius Siow, and Ronald Wolthoff),
  Journal of Functional Analysis 269(9), November 2015, 2709-2746.
  
  
• Level-k Reasoning in a Generalized Beauty Contest
  (with Dmitry Shapiro and Artie Zillante), Games and Economic Behavior 86, July 2014, 308-329.
  
  
• Information Externalities and Intermediaries in Frictional Search Markets
  (with Aloysius Siow), Canadian Journal of Economics 47(4), November 2014, 1131-1152.
  Previously circulated under the title "Search Intermediaries."
  
  
• Specialization and Partisanship in Committee Search
  (with Benny Moldovanu), Theoretical Economics 8(3), September 2013, 751-774.
  Previously circulated under the title "Search Committees" which contains additional results.
  
  
• On the Equivalence of Bayesian and Dominant Strategy Implementation
  (with Alex Gershkov, Jacob K. Goeree, Alexey Kushnir, and Benny Moldovanu), Econometrica 81(1), January 2013, 197-220.
  It supersedes "Bayesian and Dominant Strategy Implementation Revisited" (with Alex Gershkov and Benny Moldovanu, 2011).
  
  
• Optimal Auctions with Information Acquisition
  Games and Economic Behavior 74(2), March 2012, 666-686.
  
  
• Carrots and Sticks: Prizes and Punishments in Contests
  (with Benny Moldovanu and Aner Sela), Economic Inquiry 50(2), April 2012, 453-462.
  
  
• Information Acquisition in Interdependent Value Auctions
  (with Dirk Bergemann and Juuso Valimaki), Journal of the European Economic Association 7(1), March 2009, 61-89.
  
  
• Market Segmentation: The Role of Opaque Travel Agencies
  (with Dmitry Shapiro), Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 14(4), Winter 2008, 803-837.
  
  
• Competing Auctions with Endogenous Quantities
  (with Benny Moldovanu and Aner Sela), Journal of Economic Theory 141(1), July 2008, 1-27.
  
  
• Contests for Status
  (with Benny Moldovanu and Aner Sela), Journal of Political Economy 115(2), April 2007, 338-363.
  
  
• Liquidity Pools, Risk Sharing, and Financial Contagion
  (with Lawrence Saez), Journal of Financial Services Research 25(1), February 2004, 5-23.