About Me

Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor at the Smeal College of Business, Penn State University.

I received my Ph.D. in Economics from UC Santa Barbara in 2024.

My research is in Behavioral and Experimental Economics and Applied Microeconomic Theory, with a focus on information economics, complexity, and bounded rationality.

Contact: mguan.econ@gmail.com

CV: link

Research

Disentangling Probabilistic and Strategic Errors [pdf] (with Sen Geng) - forthcoming at AEJ: Microeconomics

Three Faces of Complexity in Strategic Choice [pdf] (with Ryan Oprea) - revising for Econometrica

Common Source Cancellation: A Heuristic in Information Bundle Choice [pdf] - revising for Management Science

Beyond Instrumental Value: How Complexity Shapes Information Demand [pdf] (with Ryan Oprea and Sevgi Yuksel)

Consumer AI and Exploitation of Information-Processing Frictions [pdf]

Trustworthy by Design [pdf] (with Sen Geng) - Games and Economic Behavior - 141 (2023): 70-87

From Signals to Beliefs: How People Value and Use Statistical Features [soon] (with ChienHsun Lin and Jing Zhou)

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