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Public Lectures

•     2008 International ESA Conference Plenary Talk: The Potential of Social Identity (ppt slides)

•     AADL Public Lecture on Game Theory 7/15/2007 (ppt slides, auction experiments)

Classes: SI 625 (old version. The current site is hosted on ctools.)

Research

Most of the research papers are based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in these papers are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

Working Papers

• From Boston to Shanghai to Deferred Acceptance: Theory and Experiments on a Family of School Choice Mechanisms. Yan Chen and Onur Kesten. 2011. (PDF)
• Which Hat to Wear? Impact of Natural Identities on Coordination and Cooperation. Yan Chen, Sherry Xin Li, Tracy Xiao Liu and Margaret Shih.2010. (PDF)
• Behavioral Spillovers and Cognitive Load in Multiple Games: An Experimental Study. Jenna Bednar, Yan Chen, Tracy Xiao Liu and Scott Page. 2010. (PDF)
  
• A Day without a Search Engine: An Experimental Study of Online and Offline Search. Yan Chen, Grace YoungJoo Jeon and Yong-Mi Kim. 2010. (PDF)
  
• Why Can't a Woman Bid More Like a Man?. Yan Chen, Peter Katuscak and Emre Ozdenoren. 2009. (PDF: instructions and survey in appendices) 
   
• Matching and Segregation: An Experimental Study. Yan Chen, Ernst Fehr, Urs Fischbacher and Peter Morgan. 2005. (PDF) (Instructions) (Algorithm)
   

Publications

• The Potential of Social Identity for Equilibrium Selection. Roy Chen and Yan Chen. American Economic Review forthcoming. (PDF: instructions and survey in appendices)
  
• Social Comparisons and Contributions to Online Communities: A Field Experiment on MovieLens. Yan Chen, Max Harper, Joseph Konstan and Sherry Xin Li. American Economic Review 100(4): 1358–-98. September 2010. (PDF)
  
• Scheduling with Package Auctions. Kan Takeuchi, John C. Lin, Yan Chen and Tom Finholt. Experimental Economics (2010) 13: 476-499.  (PDF) (Instructions)
  
• Multi-Object Auctions with Package Bidding: An Experimental Comparison of iBEA and Vickrey. Yan Chen and Kan Takeuchi.Games and Economic Behavior 68 (2): 557 - 579. March 2010.(PDF) (Instructions)
  
• Knowledge Market Design: A Field Experiment on Google Answers. Yan Chen, Teck-Hua Ho and Yong-Mi Kim. Journal of Public Economics Theory forthcoming. (PDF)
  

• Re-examining Price as a Predictor of Answer Quality in an Online Q&A Site. Jeon, Grace YoungJoo, Yong-Mi Kim and Yan Chen. Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2010 (CHI 2010). Atlanta, Georgia, USA. April 10 - 15, 2010. Pages: 325-328.

• Group Identity and Social Preferences (previously circulated under the title, Measuring Identity). Yan Chen and Sherry Xin Li. American Economic Review 99:1 (March 2009): 431-457. (PDF) (Supplemental Material: including experimental instructions and survey)
   
• Sealed Bid Auctions with Ambiguity: Theory and Experiments. Yan Chen, Peter Katuscak and Emre Ozdenoren. Journal of Economic Theory 136 (2007): 513-535. (PDF)
   
• Congestion Allocation Mechanisms for Distributed Networks: An Experimental Study. Yan Chen, Laura Razzolini and Ted Turocy. Economic Theory 33 (2007): 121-143. (PDF: instruction in appendix; payoff tables used in the instruction: ACP, SRL)
   
• Online Fund-raising Mechanisms: A Field Experiment. Yan Chen, Xin Li and Jeffrey MacKie-Mason. Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy vol. 5, Issue 2, Article 4, 2006. (PDF: instruction in appendix)
   
• School Choice: An Experimental Study. Yan Chen and Tayfun Sonmez. Journal of Economic Theory 127 (2006): 202-231. (PDF) (DATA in excel: contains readme sheet; DATA in ascii) (Instructions: Boston, Gale-Shapley, Top Trading Cycles)
   
• An Economic Model of User Rating in an Online Recommender System. Maxwell Harper, Xin Li, Yan Chen and Joseph Konstan. (PDF)  Springer's LNAI series, UM 2005 User Modeling: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference (DOI). This paper is written for the computer science audience. This is part of the Community Lab project. 
  
  
• When Does Learning in Games Generate Convergence to Nash Equilibria? The Role of Supermodularity in an Experimental Setting . Yan Chen and Robert Gazzale. American Economic Review vol. 94, No. 5, December 2004: 1505-1535. (PDF) (Supplemental Material: including experiment instruction) (DATA)
   
• Dynamic Stability of Nash-Efficient Public Goods Mechanisms: Reconciling Theory with Experiments. Yan Chen. Experimental Business Research, VOL II., Zwick, Rami and Amnon Rapoport (Eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers: Norwell, MA and Dordrecht, The Netherlands: 2005. (PDF)
   
• An Experimental Study of House Allocation Mechanisms. Yan Chen and Tayfun Sonmez. Economics Letters vol. 83, Issue 1 (April 2004): 137-140. (PDF), (DATA)
   
• An Experimental Study of the Serial and Average Cost Pricing Mechanisms. Yan Chen. Journal of Public Economics vol. 87, Issues 9-10 (September 2003): 2305-2335. (PDF), (DATA).
   
• Learning Under Limited Information. Yan Chen and Yuri Khoroshilov. Games and Economic Behavior 44 (July 2003): 1-25. (PDF).
   
• Improving Efficiency of On-Campus Housing: An Experimental Study. Yan Chen and Tayfun Sonmez. American Economic Review vol. 92, no. 5 (2002): 1669-86. (PDF), (DATA).
   
• Incentive-Compatible Mechanisms for Pure Public Goods: A Survey of Experimental Literature. Yan Chen. Forthcoming in The Handbook of Experimental Economics Results edited by Charles Plott and Vernon Smith. (Manuscript) (Figure)
   
• A Family of Supermodular Mechanisms Implementing Lindahl Allocations for Quasilinear Environments. Yan Chen. Economic Theory vol. 19, no. 4 (2002): 773-790. (PDF).
   
• Electoral Systems, Legislative Process and Income Taxation, Yan Chen. Journal of Public Economic Theory vol. 2, no. 1 (2000):   71-100. (PDF)
   
• Learning and Incentive Compatible Mechanisms for Public Goods Provision: An Experimental Study, Yan Chen and Fang-Fang Tang. Journal of Political Economy 106 (1998): 633-662. (PDF) (DATA)
   
• Veto Games: Spatial Committees Under Unanimity Rule, Yan Chen and Peter C. Ordeshook, Public Choice vol 97, no 4 (December 1998): 617-643. (PDF)
   
• The Groves-Ledyard Mechanism: An Experimental Study of Institutional Design, Yan Chen and Charles R. Plott, Journal of Public Economics 59 (1996): 335-364. (PDF) (DATA)
   
• The Optimal Choice of Privatizing State-Owned Enterprises: A Political Economic Model, Yan Chen. Public Choice vol. 86, no. 3-4 (1996): 223-245. (PDF)
   
• Constitutional Secession Clauses, Yan Chen and Peter C. Ordeshook, Constitutional Political Economy vol. 5, no. 1 (1994): 45-60. (PDF)
   

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