California Institute of Technology

Yu-Hsiang
(Sean) Wang

PhD Candidate in Economics

I am a fifth-year PhD candidate at Caltech. I will be on the 2026-27 job market. I work on behavioral game theory and experimental economics. My goal is to understand how the presentation of incentives shapes strategic behavior and use that insight to design environments that improve welfare.

Behavioral Game TheoryExperimental Economics
Yu-Hsiang (Sean) Wang
Yu-Hsiang (Sean) Wang · Caltech

Job market paper

Strategic Complexity in Decomposed Games

Solo-authored

Research

Publications & projects

Publications

Work in progress

The Dynamics of Collective Action: A Laboratory Study

With Marco Battaglini and Thomas Palfrey

Spatial Beauty Contest Replication and Beyond

With Joseph Tao-yi Wang and James Wei Chen

Curriculum vitae

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View my CV for my education, research, and academic experience.

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California Institute of Technology
315 Baxter Hall
1200 E. California Blvd
Pasadena, CA 91125

ywang9@caltech.edu