Xiao Lin

Happy to share that the attached paper by Rui Wang and me was just accepted by @JEconometrics. Admittedly, the title, the abstract, and the whole paper probably look very boring… That said, it has become one of my own favorites given the number of “No-Way” moments it gave me : )

Meet our fantastic candidates on the 2025–26 economics job market! Highlights of their papers are in the thread below. Check our department website for the complete list: economics.sas.upenn.edu/graduate/job-m…

Come join us @PennStateEcon for the Midwest Trade & Theory Conference in mid-November. Submission deadline is September 6. Details here: sites.google.com/view/midwesttr…

What are the welfare effects of surge pricing? Using Uber data, I develop an empirical model of spatial equilibrium composed of demand, supply, and matching. I find that surge pricing raises total welfare, benefitting riders but hurting drivers. econometricsociety.org/publications/e…

@danielluo_pi @Jeffely @ElliotLip

Rationalizing dynamic choices. arxiv.org/abs/2504.05251

Recently accepted to #REStud, "How to sample and when to stop sampling: The generalized Wald problem and minimax policies," from Karun Adusumilli: restud.com/how-to-sample-…

Retweeting to signal what I don't know.

@PeiranXiao Congratulations, Peiran and USC!

Thrilled to join USC! Looking forward to the next two years!

(2/2) From Feb 3–5, David Rahman will run a mini-course on Linear Programming, plus seminars by both David and Nageeb. Don’t miss this theory-focused week—register now at aetw2025.org.

#EconTwitter #MarketDesignJournal of Mechanism and Institution Design, new volume 9, available at mechanism-design.org @EconomicsatYork @uni_klagenfurt @DOAJplus @repec_org @repecCitEc @t8el @skominers

@SNageebAli @ElliotLip @kunzhangte For those who may be interested in the Vohra Duality: drive.google.com/file/d/1PU11sP…

@ElliotLip @kunzhangte The issue that could be known as the Kolotilin Duality.

A particularly kickass issue of TE

Check out our fantastic group of candidates on the 2024-25 economics job market. See thread 👇 for highlights of their job market papers and our department website for the full list: economics.sas.upenn.edu/graduate/job-m…

Why are fewer babies being born, and what does it mean for our future? Check out the latest article by Jesús Fernández-Villaverde in The Spectator: spectator.co.uk/article/the-gl…

@danielluo_pi This may be relevant: cs.stackexchange.com/questions/6508…

@AngelAlvaradoR @penneconomics and Jesús Fernández-Villaverde @penneconomics featured in Penn Today discussing Venezuela's election. penntoday.upenn.edu/news/qa-venezu…

🚨🚨🚨Coming tomorrow: @AcmSIGecom #EC24 tutorials 🚨🚨🚨 We have an amazing lineup of speakers and topics. Don't forget to register!

Forthcoming in the AER: "Buying from a Group" by Nima Haghpanah, Aditya Kuvalekar, and Elliot Lipnowski. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

💥Mallesh Pai💥 (Rice) is our next guest. He will present the paper "Taxing Externalities Without Hurting the Poor, " a joint work with Philipp Strack. Our guest panelists are Scott Kominers and Zi Yang Kang. Join us on Thursday, 9/May/2024. @malleshpai @skominers @ZiYangKang

new paper draft: 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺𝘀! in this paper, andy haupt (@andreas_h0wpt) and I offer a framework for comparing the privacy of different mechanisms. arxiv.org/abs/2112.10812