Mechanism Design, Auctions, Contests

Mengxi Zhang is a postdoctoral researcher at Institute for Microeconomics & Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, University of Bonn. She received her PhD in Economics from Boston University.

Published papers

• Optimal Auctions: Non-expected Utility and Constant Risk Aversion

  Gershkov, A., Moldovanu, B., Strack, P., & Zhang, M. (2022). Optimal auctions: Non-expected utility and constant risk aversion. The Review of Economic Studies.

• A Theory of Auctions with Endogenous Valuations

  Gershkov, A., Moldovanu, B., Strack, P., & Zhang, M. (2021). A theory of auctions with endogenous valuations. Journal of Political Economy, 129(4), 1011-1051.