Contact: yangery@mail.sysu.edu.cn

Research Areas: decision theory

https://www.eryayang.com/

CURRENT APPOINTMENT

Business School, Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen, China
Assistant Professor   August 2022 - Current
Research Interests: decision theory, mechanism Design

EDUCATION

University of California, Irvine, CA
PhD in Economics    June 2022
Master of Economics     September 2017

College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
Juris Doctor (JD)    May 2016
Master of Public Policy    May 2016

University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Finance Concentration    June 2012
Master of Accounting    June 2012

Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Bachelor of Engineering (Civil engineering)    July 2010
Minor in Finance    July 2010

PUBLICATIONS

Random Quasi-linear Utility, Yang, Erya, and Igor Kopylov. Journal of Economic Theory 209 (2023): 105650.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jet.2023.105650.
Reduced Form Mechanism Design and Fairness Constraints, Econ Theory Bull (2021).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40505-021-00211-1.
Optimism and Pessimism in Bargaining and Contests, International Review of Law and Economics, Volume
64, December 2020, 105935. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irle.2020.105935.

WORK IN PROGRESS

A Complexity Hierarchy of Stochastic Choice, with Adam Brandenburger.
Revealed Incentives and Consideration Sets, with Igor Kopylov (under review).
Revealed Delegation and Persuasion, with Igor Kopylov.
Are ’Ambulance Chasers’ That Bad? Litigation, Lawyer’s Advice, and Social Welfare.
Costly Delegation, with Igor Kopylov.

CONFERENCES

Contests: Theory and Evidence conference, University of East Anglia, June 2018;
Ronald Coase Institute workshop in Bratislava, December 2018;
Southwest Economic Theory Conference, UC Santa Barbara, February 2019;
Risk, Uncertainty, and Decision, online, December 2020.
Risk, Uncertainty, and Decision, Japan, 2023 (paper accepted but didn’t make it)
Science of Decision Making 2023 the University of Hong Kong, June 29 - July 1, 2023

TEACHING

Intermediate Microeconomics Fall 2022
Advanced Microeconocmis (graduate) Fall 2022, Fall 2023
Game Theory and Information Economics Spring 2023
Mechanism Design and its Applications Fall 2023

RESEARCH GRANTS

National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), China No. 72403259      2025.01-2027.12

LANGUAGE

Native Speaker of Chinese, fluent in English.