Lixin Ye

Associate Professor
Department of Economics
The Ohio State University

Contact

Office: 401 Arps Hall
1945 North High Street
Columbus, OH 43210
Phone:(614) 292-6883
E-mail: lixinye@econ.ohio-state.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

Auctions, Industrial Organization, Contract Theory, Experimental Economics

Published and Forthcoming Papers

"Search with Learning: Understanding Asymmetric Price Adjustments," with Huanxing Yang, The RAND Journal of Economics 39 (2), Summer 2008: 547-564. Working paper version

"Nonlinear Pricing, Market Coverage, and Competition," with Huanxing Yang, Theoretical Economics 3 (2008): 123-153.

"Quality Disclosure and Competition," with Dan Levin and James Peck, forthcoming, Journal of Industrial Economics.

"Hybrid Auctions Revisited," with Dan Levin, Economics Letters 99 (2008): 591-594.

"Trademark Sales, Entry, and the Value of Reputation," with Howard Marvel, International Economic Revie 49 (2008): 547-576.

"Indicative Bidding: An Experimental Analysis," with John Kagel and Svetlana Pevnitskaya, Games and Economic Behavior 62 (2008): 697-721.

"Survival Auctions," with John Kagel and Svetlana Pevnitskaya, Economic Theory 33 (2007): 103-119. Experimental Instructions

"Reserve Price Signaling," with Hongbin Cai and John Riley, Journal of Economic Theory, July 2007, 135 (1): 253-268.

"Bad News Can Be Good News: Early Dropouts in an English Auction with Multi-dimensional Signals," with Dan Levin and James Peck, Economics Letters 95 (2007): 462-467. Working paper version

"Indicative Bidding and A Theory of Two-Stage Auctions," Games and Economic Behavior, January 2007, 58 (1): 181-207.

"On the Use of Customized vs. Standardized Performance Measures," with Anil Arya, Jonathan Glover, and Brian Mittendorf, Journal of Management Accounting Research, 2005, 17: 7-21

"Optimal Auctions with Endogenous Entry," Contributions to Theoretical Economics, 2004, 4 (1): 1-27.

"Deciding between Competition and Collusion," with Patrick Bajari, Review of Economics and Statistics, November 2003, 85 (4): 971-989.

Working Papers

"Competitive Nonlinear Taxation and Constitutional Choice," with Massimo Morelli and Huanxing Yang, May 2009.

"Imperfect Signaling and Local Credibility Test," with Hongbin Cai and John Riley, new version to be available soon.

"Auctions with Entry and Resale," with Xiaoshu Xu and Dan Levin, January 2009.

"On A Virtue of Running Auction-Negotiation Hybrid Mechanisms," under revision.

Teaching

Econ 501.01: Intermediate Microeconomics (Non-calculus based)

Econ 816: Topics in Advanced Microeconomic Theory (Co-teaching with David Schmeidler)

Econ 804: Microeconomics I