Tangren Feng
Economics, Politics and Decision Sciences
Biography
Tangren Feng is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Decision Sciences at Università Bocconi since 2020 and a research affiliate of IGIER (the Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research) at Università Bocconi.
His research focuses on Economic Theory, in particular, mechanism design and social choice. He has written articles on his topics of interests in the Journal Theoretical Economics and the Journal of Mathematical Economics. In 2023 he won the PRIN (Research Projects of Significant National Interest) funding.
He has a B.S. in Mathematics from Wuhan University, two M.A. in Economics and he got his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan in 2020.
Latest publications
The limits of ex post implementation without transfers
Theoretical Economics, 2023, vol.18, no. 2, pp.463-479
Utilitarianism and social discounting with countably many generations
Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2022, vol.98, pp.102576
Social Discounting and Intergenerational Pareto
Econometrica, 2018, vol.86, no. 5, pp.1537-1567
Grants & Honors
PRIN 2022, Italian Ministry for Universities and Research (MUR)
, 2023
High Computing Power Grant, Bocconi University
, 2022
Michael Moore Dissertation Research Prize - University of Michigan
, 2020
Rackham One-Term Dissertation Fellowship - University of Michigan
, 2020
Rackham One-Term Dissertation Fellowship - University of Michigan
, 2018
Best Graduate Student Instructor - University of Michigan
, 2017