Cowles Foundation Announces Five Anderson Fellows for 2024-25
The Cowles Foundation is proud to announce the 2024-25 recipients of the Arvid Anderson Prize Fellowship in Economics: Davide Bordoli, Jingyi Cui, Hongcheng Li, Christina Qiu, and Zhichun Wang.
The fellowship prize is awarded annually to pre-doctoral or post-doctoral students who are selected by a committee of Cowles professors in the Department of Economics with the approval of the Dean of the Graduate School. The award was established in 1982 by the award’s namesake, Carl Arvid Anderson—In Anderson’s own words, the fund is intended to “promote the development of more effective methods of inquiry in economics and the dissemination of information resulting from such studies.” Since its foundation, over 140 recipients have been awarded the fellowship.
The cash prize also includes time off from academic duties for one semester, giving students time to concentrate on their research. Below are bios and fellowship plans for each of this year’s recipients.
Davide Bordoli
Davide is a fifth-year PhD student interested in microeconomic theory. Prior to Yale, he received a Master of Science in Economic and Social Sciences (ESS) from Università Bocconi, and a Bachelor of Science in Economics and Finance from Università degli Studi di Padova.
During the Fellowship, Davide will work on the topic of information acquisition in strategic interactions, exploring the problem of a monopolistic seller and its welfare implications.
Jingyi Cui
Jingyi is a fifth-year PhD student specializing in industrial organization and labor economics. She combines economic theories, structural models, and detailed microdata to better understand information frictions in digital labor markets.
Jingyi's Fellowship will be dedicated to two projects: one on reputation building among new workers and another, in collaboration with co-authors, on the potentially harmful effects of lower job application costs.
Hongcheng Li
Hongcheng is a fourth-year PhD student specializing in microeconomic theory with a focus on contract theory and mechanism design. He completed his undergraduate studies at Peking University.
During the fellowship, he plans to explore the economic implications of robust contracting with externalities, related to work co-authored with Tan Gan which studies advertising platforms' optimal pricing of user views to coordinate advertisers' purchase decisions. He will also work on two projects: one studying how career concerns lead to wage dispersion to ensure full implementation of employee efforts, and another offering a general framework for analyzing robust contracts with noncontractible third parties.
Christina Qiu
Christina is a fifth-year PhD student studying topics in trade and development. She graduated from Harvard College in 2019 with a B.A. in Applied Mathematics. As a recipient of the Clarendon Fellowship, she received an M.Sc. in Global Governance and Diplomacy from Oxford University in 2020.
Christina plans to use the fellowship to work on two projects. The first concerns the endogenous formation of spatially-expansive remittance networks after the advent of mobile money technologies in Tanzania. The second posits a framework of supply chain risk, management, and resilience.
Zhichun Wang
Zhichun is a fifth-year PhD student with research interests in industrial organization and urban economics. Prior to attending Yale, she completed her undergraduate studies in economics at Peking University.
During the fellowship, Zhichun will be working on two projects. One, with Daojing Zhai, studies the diffusion of investment in buy-to-rent single family homes and its distributional impact. The other, with Anna Croley, aims to evaluate neighborhood improvement programs incorporating strategic interactions between multiple forces.