Xianwen Shi

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

     Downtown Office: Room 208. Phone: (416) 978-5105
     UTM Office: KC265. Phone: (905) 569-4719
     Email: xianwen.shi [at] utoronto.ca

     Curriculum Vitae              Teaching

Working Papers

• Optimal Mechanism Design without Money
  (with Alex Gershkov and Benny Moldovanu), April 2013.
  
• Becker Meets Ricardo: Multisector Matching with Social and Cognitive Skills
  (with Robert J. McCann, Aloysius Siow, and Ronald Wolthoff), April 2012.
  
• Sequential Innovation and Optimal Patent Design
  (with Christian Riis), revised August 2012, new version coming soon.
  
• Information Externalities and Intermediaries in Frictional Search Markets
  (with Aloysius Siow), revised February 2013, previously circulated under the title "Search Intermediaries".
  
• Level-k Reasoning in a Generalized Beauty Contest
  (with Dmitry Shapiro and Artie Zillante), revised August 2011, new version coming soon.
  

Published and Forthcoming Papers

• Specialization and Partisanship in Committee Search
  (with Benny Moldovanu), Theoretical Economics, forthcoming.
  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 Gershkov, Moldovanu, Shi (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.