YUN WANG Address: D306, Economics Building, WangYanan Institute for Studies in Economics (WISE), Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 361005, China CURRENT POSITION Assistant Professor, WangYanan Institute for Studies in Economics (WISE), Xiamen University, 2013 present EDUCATION Ph.D. in Economics, University of Pittsburgh, June 2013 B.A. in Economics (summa cum laude), Peking University, Beijing, China, 2008 RESEARCH AND TEACHING FIELDS Primary: Microeconomics, Game Theory, Experimental Economics Secondary: Political Economy, Behavioral Economics, Industrial Organization Publications The result of world powers in WTO: a cheap-talk game under different communication protocols, China Economic Review 27, 192-207 (2013) Determinants of Auction Price on Chinese Art Market, (Joint with Hongfei Ye and Shaomin Huang) Journal of Chinese Economics Vol. 1, No. 1, 1-12 (2016) WORKING PAPERS Bayesian Persuasion with Multiple Receivers revise and resubmit at the Games and Economic Behavior Going Public or Going Private? A Cheap-Talk with Interacting Decision- Makers Race to the Top: Credit Rating Bias from Competition (Joint with Yilan Xu) Belief and Higher-Order Belief in the Centipede Games: Theory and Experiment Discriminatory Persuasion: How to Convince a Group (Joint with Jimmy Chan and Fei Li) WORK IN PROGRESS Contract as Signalling: An Experimental Investigation (Joint with John Duffy and Ernest Lai) Yun Wang Page 1
Market Mechanism, Property Rights and the Destruction of Trust (Joint with Jason Shachat and J. Todd Swarthout) TEACHING EXPERIENCE Instructor, Xiamen University Game Theory (Undergraduate Level), Fall 2014, 2015 Advanced Microeconomics I (Graduate Level), Spring 2014 Advanced Microeconomics II (Graduate Level), Spring 2015 Instructor, University of Pittsburgh Introduction to Microeconomics, Summer 2011, Summer 2012, Summer 2013 Teaching Assistant, University of Pittsburgh Mathematical Methods for Economics (Ph.D. Level), Fall 2009, Fall 2010 Applied Statistical Methods, Spring 2010 Introduction to Microeconomics, Summer 2010 Intermediate Microeconomics, Spring 2011 Game Theory Principles, Fall 2012 Public Finance, Spring 2013 CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS Bayesian Persuasion with Multiple Receivers HSBC Business School, Peking University, November 2014 School of International Business Administration, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, September 2014 Canadian Economic Association Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada, June 2013 Microeconomics Seminar, Department of Economics, Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, October 2012 Game Theory Society World Congress, Istanbul, Turkey, July 2012 The 23rd International Conference on Game Theory, Stony Brook, NY, July 2012 Midwest Economic Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 2012 Grad Expo, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, March 2012 Eastern Economic Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, March 2012 Yun Wang Page 2
Microeconomics Brownbag Seminar, Department of Economics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2011 Midwest Economic Theory Meeting, Nashville, TN, November 2011 Belief and Higher-Order Belief in the Centipede Games: Experiment The SAET Annual Conference, Cambridge, UK, July 2015 Theory and Department of Economics, School of Management, Tsinghua University, September 2014 Department of Economics, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, August 2014 The 11th Logic and Foundation of Decision and Game Theory, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, July 2014 The 25th International Conference on Game Theory, Stony Brook, NY, July 2014 School of Economics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, China, May 2014 Antai School of Management, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China, May 2014 The 4th Annual Xiamen University International Workshop on Experimental Economics, Xiamen, Fujian, China, December 2013 The 2013 North-American ESA Conference, Santa Cruz, CA, October 2013 The 2013 Annual Conference of China Quantitative Economic Association, Wuhan, China, October 2013 The 24th International Conference on Game Theory, Stony Brook, NY, July 2013 Going Public or Going Private? A Cheap-Talk with Interacting Decision- Makers Chinese Economic Society 2011 Annual Conference, Beijing, China, June 2011 Grad Expo, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, March 2011 Race to the Top: Competitive Credit Rating and Information Bias Eastern Economic Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, March 2012 Market Mechanism, Property Rights and the Destruction of Trust Experimental Economics Workshop, Center for Economic Research, Shandong University, Jinan, China, Oct 2015 Yun Wang Page 3
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS National Science Foundation of China Young Scholar Research Grant, Jan. 2015 - Dec. 2017 Xiamen University Central Research Project Grant, Nov. 2013 - Dec. 2015 Xiamen University Junior Faculty Startup Research Grant, Sep. 2013 - Aug. 2016 Social Science Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, 2011-2012 Chow Best Paper Award for PhD candidates, Chinese Economist Society, Summer 2011 Graduate Summer Research Fellowship, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Summer 2011 PBC and Alumni Travel Grant, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Summer 2011, Summer 2012 GSO Travel Grant, School of Arts and Science Graduate Student Organization, University of Pittsburgh, Summer and Fall 2011 GPSA Travel Award, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, University of Pittsburgh, Summer and Fall 2011 Teaching Fellowship, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, 2009-2011, 2012-2013 School of Arts and Sciences Scholarship, University of Pittsburgh, 2008-2009 ICBC Outstanding Student Award, School of Economics, Peking University, 2007 Toyota Academic Excellence Award, School of Economics, Peking University, 2006 Outstanding Student Award, School of Economics, Peking University, 2005 RELEVANT POSITIONS HELD Research Assistant for Professor Shuanglin Lin, China Center for Public Finance, Peking University, Fall 2007 Research Assistant, Center of Forecasting Science, The Institute of Systems Science, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Summer 2007 Research Assistant for Professor Shuguang Wang, Department of Finance, School of Economics, Peking University, Spring 2007 Research and Administrative Assistant, China Institute for Educational Finance Research, Peking University, Summer 2006 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Member of The Econometric Society, American Economics Association, Game Theory Society, Experimental Science Association, Eastern Economics Association, Midwest Economics Association, Chinese Economist Society Referee for the European Economics Review, the Eurasian Geography and Economics, the SAGE Open, and other professional journals in English and Chinese Yun Wang Page 4
LANGUAGE AND PROGRAMMING SKILLS Languages: Chinese (native), English (fluent) Computer Skills: L A TEX, Mathematica, Matlab, Stata, Visual Basic Yun Wang Page 5