Xianwen Shi

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

Office: Room 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

• Search, Recall and Scale: Firms in Frictional Matching Markets (with Aloysius Siow), revision coming soon.
  
• Robustness of Level-k Reasoning in Generalized Beauty Contest Games (with Dmitry Shapiro and Artie Zillante), October 2009.
  
• Optimal Auctions with Information Acquisition, revised March 2009.
  
• Carrots and Sticks: Prizes and Punishments in Contests (with Benny Moldovanu and Aner Sela), April 2008.
  

Work in Progress

• Pre-Auction Bargaining with Costly Information Acquisition (with Qingmin Liu)
  
• Cumulative Innovation and Exclusive Patent Policy (with Christian Riis)
  

Journal Articles

• Information Acquisition in Interdependent Value Auctions (with Dirk Bergemann and Juuso Valimaki),
  Journal of the European Economic Association, March 2009, 61-89.
  
• Market Segmentation: The Role of Opaque Travel Agencies (with Dmitry Shapiro),
  Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Winter 2008, 803-837.
  
• Competing Auctions with Endogenous Quantities (with Benny Moldovanu and Aner Sela),
  Journal of Economic Theory, July 2008, 1-27.
  
• Contests for Status (with Benny Moldovanu and Aner Sela),
  Journal of Political Economy, April 2007, 338-363.
  
• Liquidity Pools, Risk Sharing, and Financial Contagion (with Lawrence Saez ),
  Journal of Financial Services Research, February 2004, 5-23.