Yeon-Koo Che
Yeon-Koo Che is Kelvin J. Lancaster Professor of Economic Theory at Columbia University. His early work contributes to the theory of mechanism and auction design: scoring-rule auctions, auctions with budget constraints, collusion-proof mechanism design, research contest, the incomplete contract paradigm for organization theory, and the 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.
He is Fellow of Econometric Society (elected 2009) and Fellow of Economic Theory (elected 2014) for the Society of Advancement of Economic Theory. He is a member of Council of Game Theory Society (elected 2017) and of Asian Regional Council of Econometric Society (elected 2016). He served as Executive Director of Program for Economic Research (2015-18). He was editor of Journal of Industrial Economics, associate editor of Econometrica, and is currently serving as advisory editor of Games and Economic Behavior. He was the inaugural recipient in 2008 of the Cho Rakkyo Prize, and the KAEA-MK Prize in 2009. He has given numerous Keynote addresses, including the Jacob Marschak Lecture at the Econometric Society meeting in Sydney (2016), Asian Meeting of Econometric Society (2018), and Latin American Meeting of Econometric Society (2018). He has received nine National Science Foundation grants spanning over 20 years. He received a PhD in Economics at the Stanford University. He was Professor at University of Wisconsin before joining the Columbia University as Professor of Economics in 2005.
