Yi-Chun Chen

Companies

• Professor of Economics National University of Singapore (2021)
• Director NUS Risk Management Institute (RMI) (2020)
• Vice Dean of International Relations and Special Duties NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (2017)
• Associate Professor National University of Singapore (2014 — 2021)
• Assistant Professor National University of Singapore (2009 — 2014)

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Northwestern University (2004 — 2009)
• Master's Degree National Taiwan University (2000 — 2002)
• Bachelor's Degree National Taiwan University (1996 — 2000)

TEACHING AREAS

• Microeconomics
• Mathematical Economics

RESEARCH AREAS

• Game Theory
• Mechanism Design

Publication

"Maskin Meets Abreu and Matsushima," (with Takashi Kunimoto, Yifei Sun, Siyang Xiong), Theoretical Economics, forthcoming. "Continuous Implementation with Direct Revelation Mechanisms," (with Manuel Mueller-Frank and Mallesh Pai), Journal of Economic Theory, forthcoming. "A Theory of Stability in Matching with Incomplete Information," (with Gaoji Hu), American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, forthcoming. "Rationalizable Implementation in Finite Mechanisms," (with Takashi Kunimoto, Yifei Sun, and Siyang Xiong), Games and Economic Behavior 129 (2021), 181-197. "Learning by Matching," (with Gaoji Hu), Theoretical Economics 15 (2020), 29-56. "Equivalence of Stochastic and Deterministic Mechanisms," (Online Appendix) (with Wei He, Jiangtao Li, and Yeneng Sun), Econometrica 87 (2019), 1367-1390. "Revisiting the Foundations of Dominant-Strategy Mechanisms," (with Jiangtao Li), Journal of Economic Theory 178 (2018), 294-317. "Characterizing the Strategic Impact of Misspecified Beliefs," (Online Appendix) (with Alfredo Di Tillio, Eduardo Faingold, and Siyang Xiong), Review of Economic Studies 84 (2017), 1424-1471. "Rationalizability in General Situations," (with Xiao Luo and Qu Chen), Economic Theory 61 (2016), 147-167. "Agreeing to Agree and Dutch Books," (with Ehud Lehrer, Jiangtao Li, Dov Samet, and Eran Shmaya), Games and Economic Behavior 93 (2015), 108-116. "Full Implementation in Backwards Induction," (with Yifei Sun), Journal of Mathematical Economics 59 (2015), 71-76. "The Robust Selection of Rationalizability," (with Satoru Takahashi and Siyang Xiong), Journal of Economic Theory 151 (2014), 448-475. "The E-mail Game Phenomenon," (with Siyang Xiong), Games and Economic Behavior 80 (2013), 147-156. "Genericity and Robustness of Full Surplus Extraction," (Online Appendix) (with Siyang Xiong), Econometrica 81 (2013), 825-847. "A Structure Theorem for Rationalizability in the Normal Form of Dynamic Games," (Online Appendix) Games and Economic Behavior 75 (2012), 587-597. "Note on unawareness," (with Jeffrey C. Ely and Xiao Luo), International Journal of Game Theory 41 (2012), 325-329. "An Indistinguishability Result on Rationalizability under General Preferences," (with Xiao Luo), Economic Theory 51 (2012), 1-12. "The Genericity of Beliefs-Determine-Preferences Models Revisited," (with Siyang Xiong), Journal of Economic Theory 146 (2011), 751-761. "Uniform Topologies on Types," (with Alfredo Di Tillio, Eduardo Faingold, and Siyang Xiong), Theoretical Economics 5 (2010), 445-478. "Universality of the Epstein-Wang Type Structure," Games and Economic Behavior 68 (2010), 389-402. "Delay in a Bargaining Game with Contracts," (with Xiao Luo), Theory and Decision 65 (2008), 339-353. "Iterated Strict Dominance in General Games, (with Ngo Van Long and Xiao Luo), Games and Economic Behavior 61 (2007), 299-315.