Working Papers

1. On the optimal Design of Biased Contests, with Zenan Wu

2. Feedback and Favoritism in Sequential Elimination, with Zenan Wu

3. On the Paradox of Mediocracy, with Ming Li and Xue Qiao

4. Equilibrium Ordering in Sequential Team Contests, with Jingfeng Lu.

5. How to Sell a New Durable Good: A Signaling Rationale for Hunger Marketing and Word of Mouth, with Hong Feng and Lan Zhang.

6. Multi-prize Contests with Risk-averse Players, with Xiruo Wang and Zenan Wu

7. Loss Aversion in Contests, with Zenan Wu, Youji Lyu, and Yuanjie Zhang