PHD CANDIDATE, Economics
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Peiran Xiao is a Ph.D. student in the Economics department. His field of research is Microeconomic Theory, with a focus on mechanism design and information economics. His recent research studies the optimal rating design to incentivize agents and the optimal allocation of positional goods or status. He is also studying the formation and consequences of echo chambers across social media platforms. To learn more about Xiao’s research and publications, visit his website.
In Spring 2024, Peiran received a CISS Summer mini-grant to support his project on the optimal design of performance or product ratings to motivate individual performance or firm investment in quality.