Michael C. Wang

I am a PhD candidate in economics at Yale. My research focuses on mechanism design and dynamic games, with particular interest in applications to digital markets. I am on the job market in 2026-27.

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Research

Working Papers

Dynamics of Durable Good Upgrades

JMPDraft available upon request

Optimal Pricing of Cloud Services: Committed Spend under Demand Uncertainty

with Dirk Bergemann

Publications

Screening and Segmenting: A Consumer Surplus Perspective

with Dirk Bergemann and Tibor Heumann

Forthcoming, American Economic Review

Conference Proceedings

A Unified Approach to Second and Third Degree Price Discrimination

with Dirk Bergemann and Tibor Heumann

Extended Abstract, Proceedings of the 25th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation

Works in Progress

Censorship and Steering in Platform Duopolies: Theory and Evidence from Amazon

with Kyungho Lee

Effects of Recommender Systems with Strategic Sellers