Dalin Sheng

Rights Transitions in Dynamic Assignment: Safety, Investment, and Future Exchange

Characterizes safe rights transitions in dynamic assignment markets and shows how exchange titles insure licensed investments through a title-insurance hypergraph.

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Yield Restrictions and the Funding of Stablecoin Settlement

Yield restrictions can trigger funding flight toward redemption and weaken stablecoin issuer recovery, while settlement netting can restore the intended policy effect.

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Stable and Strategy-proof Matching and Value Representation of Choice Functions

Introduces a college-admissions mechanism with flexible seat allocation that is stable, strategy-proof, and welfare-improving relative to standard deferred acceptance.

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Hedging by Giving: Spiritual Insurance and Religious Donations

Income shocks increase religious giving because donors use charity as a form of spiritual insurance; the paper combines bank transaction data with a large field experiment.

Yu-Jane Liu

Correlated Intelligence: AI Adoption and Systemic Risk

Common AI model adoption can expose banks to unpriced correlated errors, producing too little model diversity and greater systemic risk.

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How Markets End: Insurance Exhaustion and the Limits of Priority

Reliable assignment aftermarkets insure main-round failure but induce strategic reaching, and priority cannot preserve discipline once rescue demand exhausts available seats.

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Screening and the Price of a Stationary Type Distribution

Characterizes how stationary screening jointly determines current allocations and future type distributions, and prices the output cost of cohort-composition targets through a …

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Immediate Acceptance Mechanism with Imperfectly Observed Student Ability

With imperfectly observed ability, Immediate Acceptance can outperform Deferred Acceptance and, under a transparent indifference condition, can even implement the …

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When Regulation Fuels Collusion: The Emergence of Self-Organized Investor Cartels in IPO Markets

Studies how IPO regulation can unintentionally facilitate collusion by enabling self-organized investor cartels in primary markets.

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When Stars Lead: Informational and Emotional Transmission Among Online Investors (Reject and Resubmit at JFQA)

Examines how opinion leaders transmit both information and emotion in online investor communities, shaping attention and trading behavior.

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