Scholar
Yeon-Koo Che
Google Scholar ID: V5B7RHcAAAAJ
Columbia Univeresity
Citations & Impact
Citations
4,458
H-index
34
i10-index
64
Publications
20
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0
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Fellow of the Econometric Society (elected 2009), Fellow of Economic Theory (elected 2014) for the Society of Advancement of Economic Theory, and Fellow of the Game Theory Society (elected 2023); Member of the Council of Game Theory Society (elected 2017) and of the Asian Regional Council of Econometric Society (elected 2016); Recipient of nine National Science Foundation grants spanning over 20 years; Inaugural recipient of the Cho Rakkyo Prize in 2008 and the KAEA-MK Prize in 2009; Delivered numerous Keynote addresses, including the Jacob Marschak Lecture at the Econometric Society meeting in Sydney (2016), the Asian Meeting of Econometric Society (2018), and the Latin American Meeting of Econometric Society (2018).
Research Experience
- Served as a Professor at the University of Wisconsin before joining Columbia University as a Professor of Economics in 2005; Executive Director of the Program for Economic Research (2015-2018); Editor of the Journal of Industrial Economics, Associate Editor of Econometrica, and currently serving as an advisory editor of Games and Economic Behavior.
Education
- Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University
Background
- Kelvin J. Lancaster Professor of Economic Theory at Columbia University. His early work contributes to the theory of mechanism and auction design, including scoring-rule auctions, auctions with budget constraints, collusion-proof mechanism design, research contests, the incomplete contract paradigm for organization theory, and matching theory in the context of college and school choice. His current research projects explore the implications of data-driven economic decision-making and resource allocation for welfare and distributional consequences.
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