Postdoctoral Scholar in Economics 

Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences

MC: 228-77

California  Institute of Technology

Pasadena, CA 91125

 

Email: ylien@ylien.com 

(650) 521-4188 (cell)

(626) 395-4064 (w)

 

CV  (in pdf)

Job Market Paper

An Equilibrium Analysis of the Simultaneous Ascending Auction”, with Jacob K. Goeree ( Resubmitted to Econometrica )

Other Job Market Papers

    1. Ascending Prices and Package Bidding: A Theoretical and Experimental Analysis, with John Kagel and Paul Milgrom ( Accepted at AEJ: Micro )
    2. On the Impossibility of Core-Selecting Auctions ,with Jacob K. Goeree 

Working Papers

    1. Application Choices and College Rankings ( Supplementary materials. )
    2. Costly Interviews and Non-Assortative Matchings   
    3. Bidding Reversals in a Multiple-Good Auction with Global Reserve Price, with Daniel Quint.  
    4. Delays in Simultaneous Ascending Auctions  
    5. On the Gross Substitutes Condition, with Jun Yan. 
    6. Option Pricing with Heterogeneous Beliefs in Binomial Models, with Ho-Mou Wu. 

Work in Progress

    1.  Threshold versus Exposure in Simultaneous Ascending Auctions", with Jacob K. Goeree.

 Other materials