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You can also download some of my experimental data.
Most of the research papers are based upon work supported by the National
Science Foundation. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or
recommendations expressed in these papers are those of the author(s) and do not
necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
Working Papers
Social Comparisons and Contributions to Online Communities: A Field
Experiment on MovieLens. Yan Chen, Max Harper, Joseph Konstan and Sherry
Xin Li. 2007. (PDF)
Why Can't a Woman Bid More Like a Man?.
Yan Chen, Peter Katuscak and Emre Ozdenoren. 2005. (PDF:
instructions in appendix)
Multi-Object Auctions with Package Bidding: An
Experimental Comparison of iBEA and Vickrey. Yan Chen and Kan Takeuchi.
2008. (PDF) (Instructions)
Matching and Segregation: An Experimental Study. Yan
Chen, Ernst Fehr, Urs Fischbacher and Peter Morgan. 2005. (PDF) (Instructions)
(Algorithm)
Group Identity and Social Preferences (previously circulated under
the title, Measuring Identity). Yan Chen, Xin Li. 2007. (PDF:
instructions in appendix)
Shake It Up Baby: Scheduling with Combinatorial Auctions.
Kan Takeuchi, John C. Lin, Yan Chen and Tom Finholt. 2007. (PDF)
(Instructions)
Publications
Sealed Bid Auctions with Ambiguity: Theory and
Experiments. Yan Chen, Peter Katuscak and Emre Ozdenoren. Journal of
Economic Theory 136 (2007): 513-535. (PDF)
Congestion Allocation Mechanisms for Distributed Networks: An Experimental Study.
Yan Chen, Laura Razzolini and Ted Turocy. Economic Theory 33 (2007):
121-143. (PDF:
instruction in appendix; payoff tables used in the
instruction: ACP, SRL)
Online Fund-raising Mechanisms: A Field Experiment. Yan Chen, Xin Li and Jeffrey
MacKie-Mason. Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy vol. 5,
Issue 2, Article 4, 2006. (PDF:
instruction in appendix)
School Choice: An Experimental Study. Yan Chen and Tayfun
Sonmez. Journal of Economic Theory 127 (2006): 202-231. (PDF)
(DATA in excel: contains readme
sheet; DATA in
ascii)
An Economic Model of User Rating in an Online Recommender System. Maxwell Harper, Xin Li,
Yan Chen and Joseph Konstan. (PDF)
Springer's LNAI series, UM 2005 User Modeling: Proceedings of the Tenth International
Conference (DOI). This
paper is written for the computer science audience. This is part of the Community
Lab project.
When Does Learning in Games Generate Convergence to Nash
Equilibria? The Role of Supermodularity in an Experimental Setting . Yan Chen and Robert
Gazzale. American Economic
Review vol. 94, No. 5, December 2004: 1505-1535. (PDF) (Supplemental
Material: including experiment instruction) (DATA)
Dynamic Stability of Nash-Efficient Public Goods
Mechanisms: Reconciling Theory with Experiments. Yan Chen. Experimental Business Research, VOL II., Zwick, Rami
and Amnon Rapoport (Eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers: Norwell, MA and
Dordrecht, The Netherlands: 2005. (PDF)
An Experimental Study of House Allocation Mechanisms.
Yan Chen and Tayfun Sonmez. Economics Letters vol. 83, Issue 1
(April 2004): 137-140. (PDF),
(DATA)
An Experimental Study of the Serial and Average Cost
Pricing Mechanisms. Yan Chen. Journal of Public
Economics vol. 87,
Issues 9-10 (September 2003): 2305-2335. (PDF),
(DATA).
Learning Under Limited Information. Yan Chen and
Yuri Khoroshilov. Games and Economic Behavior 44 (July 2003): 1-25. (PDF).
Improving Efficiency of On-Campus Housing: An
Experimental Study. Yan Chen and Tayfun Sonmez. American Economic
Review vol. 92, no. 5 (2002): 1669-86. (PDF),
(DATA).
Incentive-Compatible Mechanisms for Pure Public Goods: A
Survey of Experimental Literature. Yan Chen. Forthcoming in The
Handbook of Experimental Economics Results edited by Charles Plott and
Vernon Smith. (Manuscript) (Figure)
A Family of Supermodular Mechanisms Implementing Lindahl
Allocations for Quasilinear Environments. Yan Chen. Economic Theory vol. 19, no. 4 (2002): 773-790.
(PDF).
Electoral Systems, Legislative Process and Income
Taxation, Yan Chen. Journal of Public Economic
Theory vol. 2, no. 1 (2000):
71-100. (PDF)
Learning and Incentive Compatible Mechanisms for
Public Goods Provision: An Experimental Study, Yan Chen and Fang-Fang Tang.
Journal
of Political Economy 106 (1998): 633-662. (PDF) (DATA)
Veto Games: Spatial Committees Under Unanimity
Rule, Yan Chen and Peter C. Ordeshook, Public Choice vol
97, no 4 (December 1998): 617-643. (PDF)
The Groves-Ledyard Mechanism: An Experimental
Study of Institutional Design, Yan Chen and Charles R. Plott, Journal of
Public Economics 59 (1996): 335-364. (PDF) (DATA)
The Optimal Choice of Privatizing State-Owned
Enterprises: A Political Economic Model, Yan Chen. Public Choice
vol.
86, no. 3-4 (1996): 223-245. (PDF)
Constitutional Secession Clauses, Yan
Chen and Peter C. Ordeshook, Constitutional Political Economy vol. 5, no. 1
(1994): 45-60. (PDF)
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You can also download some of my experimental data.