Welcome!
My name is Zichang Wang (王子畅 in Chinese). In May 2023, I obtained my Ph.D. degree in Economics from Duke University. Currently, I work as an assistant professor at Xiamen University, affiliated with the School of Economics and Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics (WISE).
My research interest is on economic theory, with an emphasis on decision theory, behavioral economics, and the economics of information. I am broadly interested in understanding how people incorporate information into their decision-making process. In my job market paper, I develop an axiomatic model to characterize behavioral foundations and implications of information avoidance caused by regret.
Email: zichang.wang262@gmail.com
Working Papers
Regret and Information Avoidance [PDF] [SSRN]
Job Market Paper, presented at BRIC 2023, EC’23 (extended abstract), 34th game theory conference at Stony Brook
Informativeness Orders over Ambiguous Experiments [PDF] [SSRN]
Revise and resubmit at Journal of Economic Theory
Work in Progress
Comparison of Menus of Blackwell Experiments
Persuasion with A Constrained Signal Space
Teaching
As instructor:
Duke ECON 700: Mathematics for Economists (PhD math camp), Summer 2020, Summer 2021
As teaching assistant:
Duke ECON 701/705: Microeconomic Analysis I/II (PhD core, micro sequence), 2018-2019, Spring 2021
Duke ECON 205: Intermediate Microeconomics (undergraduate core), Fall 2020