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Xianwen Shi
Researcher at University of Toronto
Publications - 45
Citations - 1476
Xianwen Shi is an academic researcher from University of Toronto. The author has contributed to research in topics: Common value auction & Incentive compatibility. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 42 publications receiving 1306 citations. Previous affiliations of Xianwen Shi include Yale University.
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Level-K Reasoning in a Generalized Beauty Contest
TL;DR: Level-k models are successful in predicting subject behavior in settings with symmetric information and a strong coordination motive, but their predictive power weakens significantly when either private information is introduced or the importance of the coordination motive is decreased.
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Optimal Mechanism Design without Money
TL;DR: In this paper, the standard mechanism design environment with linear utility but without monetary transfers is considered and an equivalence between deterministic, dominant strategy incentive compatible mechanisms and generalized median voter schemes is established.
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Voting on Multiple Issues: What to Put on the Ballot?
TL;DR: A multidimensional collective decision under incomplete information, where agents have Euclidean preferences and vote by simple majority on each issue (dimension), yielding the coordinate‐wise median.
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Becker meets Ricardo: Multisector matching with social and cognitive skills
Robert J. McCann,Xianwen Shi,Aloysius Siow,Aloysius Siow,Ronald P. Wolthoff,Ronald P. Wolthoff +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a tractable framework for studying frictionless matching in school, work, and marriage when individuals have heterogeneous social and cognitive skills. And they also capture well-known matching patterns in each of these sectors, including the commonly observed manyto-one matches in firms and schools.
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Becker Meets Ricardo: Multisector Matching with Social and Cognitive Skills
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a tractable framework for studying frictionless matching in school, work, and marriage when individuals have heterogeneous social and cognitive skills. But they do not consider the relationship between individuals with different social skills.