Xi Weng

Professor Xi Weng joins Guanghua in 2011 as an assistant professor. Before joining Guanghua, he got his PhD degree in economics from University of Pennsylvania. Professor Weng received his bachelor and master degrees from Peking University.

Research Areas

• Game Theory
• Organizational Economics
• Information Economics

Education Background

• 2011 University of Pennsylvania Economics
  
• 2006 Peking University Economics
  
• 2004 Peking University Economics
  

Career Experience

• 2011-2016 Assistant Professor, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University
• 2016-2019 Associate Professor, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University
• 2019-present Professor, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University

Publications:

• “Political Competition at a Multilayer Hierarchy: Evidence from China” (joint with Xing Li, Chong Liu and Li-An Zhou), in The Chinese Economy: a New Transition, published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
• “Partial centralization in three-division organizations” (joint with Siguang Li), Nankai Business Review International, 5(2), 187-210, 2014.
• “Dynamic Pricing in the Presence of Individual Learning”, Journal of Economic Theory, 155, 262-299, 2015.
• “Learning and Efficiency with Search Frictions”, Frontiers of Economics in China, 10(3), 449-466, 2015.
• “Can Learning Cause Shorter Delays in Reaching Agreements?” Journal of Mathematical Economics, 60, 49-62, 2015.
• “Common Value Experimentation” (joint with Jan Eeckhout), Journal of Economic Theory, 160, 317-339, 2015.
• “Random Authority” (joint with Siguang Li), International Economic Review, 58, 211-235, 2017.
• “Efficient Learning and Job Turnover in the Labor Market” (joint with Fei Li), International Economic Review, 58, 727-750, 2017.
• “Can Loss Aversion Explain the Disposition Effect? A New Perspective on Reference Points” (joint with Juanjuan Meng), Management Science, 64, 3331-3351, 2018.
• “A Theory of Organizational Dynamics:Internal Politics and Efficiency”(joint with Hongbin Cai and Hong Feng), AEJ: Micro, 10(4), 94-130, 2018.
• “Managerial Turnover and Entrenchment” (joint with Zenan Wu), Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 27, 742-771, 2018.
• “Tournaments with Targets: Theory and Evidence from China” (joint with Xing Li, Chong Liu and Li-An Zhou), Economic Journal, 129, 2888-2915, 2019.
• “Formal Insurance and Informal Risk Sharing Dynamics” (joint with Wanchuan Lin and Juanjuan Meng), forthcoming Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.
• “Star Ratings and the Incentives of Mutual Funds” (joint with Chong Huang and Fei Li) forthcoming Journal of Finance.
• “A Sustainable Incentive Scheme for Federated Learning” (joint with H Yu, Z Liu, Y Liu, T Chen, M Cong, D Niyato, Q Yang) forthcoming IEEE Intelligent Systems.
• “A Fairness-aware Incentive Scheme for Federated Learning” (joint with H Yu, Z Liu, Y Liu, T Chen, M Cong, D Niyato, Q Yang) The 3rd AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES-20).
• “Robust Persuasion of a Privately Informed Receiver” (joint with Ju Hu) forthcoming Economic Theory.

Working Papers:

• “Market Expanding or Market Stealing? Competition with Network Effects in Bike-Sharing” (joint with Guangyu Cao, Ginger Zhe Jin, and Li-An Zhou)
• “Governing Adaptation and Coordination: A Generalization of Multi-agent Delegation” (joint with Tan Gan and Ju Hu)
• “The Making of Bad Gentry: The Abolition of an Exam, Local Governance and Anti-gentry Protests, 1902–1911” (joint with Yu Hao, Kevin Zhengcheng Liu, and Li-An Zhou)

Working in Progress:

• “Mismatch in the Presence of Assortative Learning” (joint with Jan Eeckhout)
• “The Technological Origins of the Decline in Labor Market Dynamism” (joint with Jan Eeckhout)
• “Authority and Communication under the Shadow of Future Centralization” (joint with Fan Wu and Yundong Yin)