Xianwen Shi

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

Office: Rm 208. Phone: (416) 978-5105, Fax: (416) 978-6713
UTM Office: K265. Phone: (905) 569-4719
Email: xianwen.shi [at] utoronto.ca

Curriculum Vitae              Teaching

Working Papers

• Becker Meets Ricardo: Multisector Matching with Social and Cognitive Skills
  (with Robert J. McCann, Aloysius Siow, and Ronald Wolthoff), 2012.
  
• Sequential Innovation and Optimal Patent Design
  (with Christian Riis), 2012.
  
• On the Equivalence of Bayesian and Dominant Strategy Implementation
  (with Alex Gershkov, Jacob K. Goeree, Alexey Kushnir, and Benny Moldovanu), 2012.
  It supersedes Gershkov, Moldovanu, Shi (2011)
  
• Search Committees
  (with Benny Moldovanu), 2011.
  
• Search Intermediaries
  (with Aloysius Siow), 2011.
  
• Level-k Reasoning in a Generalized Beauty Contest
  (with Dmitry Shapiro and Artie Zillante), 2011.
  

Work in Progress

• Optimal Mechanism Design without Commitment (with Qingmin Liu and Konrad Mierendorff)
  
• Optimal Mechanism Design without Transfers (with Alex Gershkov and Benny Moldovanu)
  

Publications

• 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.