Personal Information

Quan Wen, Professor of Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University

Economics Bulletin, Associate Editor

Annals of Economics and Finance, Member of the Editorial Board

Economic Research International, Member of the Editorial Board

Frontiers of Economics in China, Member of the Editorial Board


Research Interests

Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory


Publications (selected)

  1. “The Folk Theorem for Repeated Games with Complete Information,” Econometrica, Volume 62, Number 4 (July 1994), 949-954
  2. “Perfect Equilibria in a Negotiation Model” (with Lutz-Alexander Busch), Econometrica, Volume 63, Number 3 (May 1995), 545-565
  3. “On Renegotiation-Proof Equilibria in Finitely Repeated Games,” Games and Economic Behavior, Volume 13, Number 2 (April 1996), 286-300
  4. “Labor Market Search and Capital Accumulation: Some Analytical Results” (with Shouyong Shi), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Volume 21, Number 10 (August 1997), 1747-1776
  5. “Price Regulation of Pharmaceuticals in Canada” (with Aslam H. Anis), Journal of Health Economics, Volume 17, Number 1 (January 1998), 21-38
  6. “Bargaining with Surplus Destruction” (with Lutz-Alexander Busch and Shouyong Shi), Canadian Journal of Economics, Volume 31, Number 4 (October 1998), 915-932
  7. “Strategic Invasion in Markets with Switching Costs” (with Ruqu Wang), Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Volume 7, Number 4 (Winter 1998), 521-549
  8. “Labor Market Search and the Dynamic Effects of Taxes and Subsidies” (with Shouyong Shi), Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 43, Number 2 (April 1999), 457-495
  9. “Outsiders’ Threat and Consecutive Offers” (with Ling Qiu), Economic Theory, Volume 15, Number 3 (May 2000), 663-676
  10. “Finite Horizon Negotiation Games” (with Lutz-Alexander Busch), Annals of Economics and Finance, Volume 2, Number 2 (November 2001), 415-435
  11. “Negotiation Games with Unobservable Mixed Disagreement Actions” (with Lutz-Alexander Busch), Journal of Mathematical Economics, Volume 35, Number 4 (July 2001), 563-579
  12. “Flexibility of Disagreement Actions in Negotiations” (with Taiji Furusawa), International Journal of Game Theory, Volume 30, Number 1 (September 2001), 19-39
  13. “Persistent Protection in an International Exit Game” (with Aslam H. Anis and Michael Benarroch), Journal of International Economics, Volume 56, Number 2 (March 2002), 465-487
  14. “Disagreement Points in Trade Negotiations” (with Taiji Furusawa), Journal of International Economics, Volume 57, Number 1 (June 2002), 133-150
  15. “A Folk Theorem for Repeated Sequential Games,” Review of Economic Studies, Volume 69, Number 2 (April 2002), 493-512
  16. “On Asynchronously Repeated Games” (with Satoru Takahashi), Economics Letters, Volume 79, Number 2 (May 2003), 239-245
  17. “Bargaining with Stochastic Disagreement Payoffs” (with Taiji Furusawa), International Journal of Game Theory, Volume 31, Number 4 (October 2003), 571-591
  18. “On the Power to Hurt: Costly Conflict with Complete Informed States” (with Harold Houba), Economic Bulletin, Volume 3, Number 3 (January 2006), 1-6
  19. “Multi-Agent Bilateral Bargaining and the Nash Bargaining Solution” (with Sang-Chul Suh), Journal of Mathematical Economics, Volume 42, Number 1 (February 2006), 61-73
  20. “Different Time Preferences and Non-Stationary Contracts in Negotiations” (with Harold Houba), Economics Letters, Volume 91, Number 3 (May 2006) 273-279
  21. “Wage Bargaining under the National Labor Relations Act” (with Jesse A. Schwartz), Journal of Economic and Management Strategy, Volume 15, Number 4 (Winter 2006), 1017-1039
  22. “Wage Negotiation under Good Faith Bargaining” (with Jesse A. Schwartz), International Game Theory Review, Volume 9, Number 3 (March 2007), 551-564
  23. “Subgame Perfect Implementation of Stable Matchings in Marriage Problems (with Sang-Chul Suh), Social Choice and Welfares, Volume 31, Number 1 (June 2008), 163-174
  24. “Forgiving Proof Equilibrium in Repeated Games” (with Miguel Aramandia and Luis Ruiz), The B.E. Journal of Contributions Theoretical Economics, Volume 8 (2008), Article 5
  25. “On Striking for a Bargain between Two Completely Informed Agents" (with Harold Houba), Economic Theory, Volume 37, Number 2 (December 2008), 509-519
  26. “A Multi-Agent Bilateral Bargaining Model with Endogenous Protocol” (with Sang-Chul Suh), Economic Theory, Volume 40, Number 2 (August 2009), 203-226
  27. “Antitrust Enforcement with Price-Dependent Fines and Detection Probability” (with Harold Houba and Evgenia Motchenkova), Economic Bulletin, Volume 30, Number 3 (2010), 2017-2207
  28. “Extreme Equilibria in the Negotiation Model with Different Time Preferences” (with Harold Houba), Games and Economic Behavior, Volume 73 (2011), 507-516
  29. “Competitive Prices as Optimal Cartel Prices” (with Harold Houba and Evgenia Motchenkova), Economics Letters, Volume 114, Number 1 (2012), 39-42
  30. “Dominant Strategy Implementation with a Convex Product Space of Valuations” (with Katherine Cuff, Sunghoon Hong, Jesse A. Schwartz, and John A. Weymark), forthcoming, Social Choice and Welfares (2011)