Erya Yang

Erya Yang

PhD Candidate, Department of Economics

University of California, Irvine

Biography

I am a PhD candidate on the job market 2021-22. My research interest is in economic theory, especially decision theory and mechanism design. I have done some work in both directions. I have also applied some of these theories to study fairness and social welfare. My advisor is Igor Kopylov.

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Interests
  • Decision Theory
  • Mechanism Design
Education

  • PhD in Economics, Expected 2022

    University of California, Irvine

Publications

Erya Yang (2021). Reduced-Form Mechanism Design and Fairness Constraints. Accepted, Economic Theory Bulletin.

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Erya Yang (2020). Optimism and pessimism in bargaining and contests. International Review of Law and Economics.

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Work in Progress

Quasi-linear Random Utility
**This is my Job Market Paper. I refine the random utility model (RUM) of Block and Marschak (1959) and represent stochastic choice data with quasi-linear types. These types reflect heterogeneous preferences of a group of agents or a single agent across repeated questions.
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Revealed Delegation and Persuasion
To delegate future choices, planners can influence doers in various ways. In the intrapersonal case, a planner can motivate her future self by commitments, promises, deadlines etc. In the interpersonal case, doers can be selected and/or persuaded to change their beliefs.
Igor Kopylov, Erya Yang
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Are "Ambulance Chasers" That Bad? Litigation, Lawyer's Advice, and Social Welfare
This article models litigation in signaling games with an imperfectly informed victim and a perfectly informed defendant. I compare a two-agent game and a three-agent extension where the victim can hire a lawyer who is perfectly informed but who pursues a selfish objective in his advice.
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Teaching Experiences

 
 
 
 
 
Teaching Assistant
University of California, Irvine
Sep 2016 – Present California

Courses assisted include:

  • Graduate level Microeconomics Theory: Econ 210A, 210B, 210C;
  • Graduate level Mathematics for Econocmists: Econ 203A;
  • Behavioral Economics;
  • Game Theory;
  • Intermediate Econocmics, etc.

Contact

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  • eryay@uci.edu
  • SSPB 3254, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92617