Departmental Seminar with Yeon-Koo CHE (Columbia)

Yeon-Koo Che is the Kelvin J. Lancaster Professor of Economic Theory at Columbia University. He is Fellow of the Econometric Society (elected 2009), a Fellow of Economic Theory (elected 2014) for the Society of Advancement of Economic Theory, and a Fellow of the Game Theory Society (elected 2023).  He served as a member of the Council of Game Theory Society (elected 2017) and of the Asian Regional Council of Econometric Society (elected 2016). Among his editorial duties, he is currently Advisory Editor of Games and Economic Behavior.

His fields of research are Contracts and Organisation, Industrial Organisation, and Microeconomics. His early work contributes to the theory of mechanism and auction design. His current research projects explore the implications of data-driven economic decision-making and resource allocation for welfare and distributional consequences. He was the inaugural recipient in 2008 of the Cho Rakkyo Prize and the KAEA-MK Prize in 2009. And his work has received nine National Science Foundation grants spanning over 20 years.

Yeon-Koo Che's website

He will present a paper, joint with Jinwoo Kim and Konrad Mierendorff, at the next Departmental Seminar on the topic:

Predictive Enforcement (read paper)

The next Departmental Seminar will host Kathleen NGANGOUÉ (UCLA Anderson School) on March 31st.