Address
9-246, Lau Ming Wai Academic Building, City University of Hong Kong
Phone
+852 34427897
Email
Personal Web
https://www.wenji-xu.com
Research Areas
Microeconomic Theory
Information Economics
Industrial Organization
Finance
Qualifications
PhD - Economics (University of Chicago)
BSc - Applied Mathematics (National University of Singapore)
Biography
Dr. Wenji Xu's research interests include microeconomic theory and its applications to the design of market institutions. He received his B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from the National University of Singapore in 2014 and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago in 2020.
Selected Publications
Journal Publications and Reviews
Xu, Wenji / Social learning through coarse signals of others' actions. October 2025; In: Journal of Economic Theory. Vol. 229
XU, Wenji; Yang, Shuoguang / Dynamic Pricing with Recommendation and Consumer Feedback. July 2025; In: RAND Journal of Economics.
Xu, Wenji; Yang, Kai Hao / Consumer-Minded Informational Intermediary and Welfare Losses. November 2024; In: RAND Journal of Economics.
Conference Papers
XU, Wenji / Social Learning through Action-Signals. December 2024; 25th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC'24), 08/07/2024 - 11/07/2024, New Haven, United States.
Xu, Wenji; Yang, Kai Hao / Information Design in Bilateral Trade and (Unintended) Welfare Loss. June 2021; 2021 North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society (NASMES 2021), 10/06/2021 - 13/06/2021, Montreal, Canada.
Xu, Wenji / Social Learning in General Information Environments. June 2021; 15th International Conference on Game Theory and Management (GTM2021), 23/06/2021 - 25/06/2021, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation.
Working Papers
Ge, Chunmian; Huang, Hanwei; Liu, Chang; Xu, Wenji / Price Discrimination, Backhaul Problems, and Trade Costs: Theory and Evidence from E-commerce Delivery. May 2024;
Xu, Wenji; Yang, Kai Hao / Equivalent Mechanisms for Information Intermediation. February 2024;
Xu, Wenji / Social Learning through Action-Signals. July 2023;
Xu, Wenji; Yang, Kai Hao / Market-Minded Informational Intermediary and Unintended Welfare Loss. January 2022; Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper.
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