Hao Wen

Undergrade at UC Berkeley

Game theoryMechanism design

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02 / RESEARCH

Selected projects

Research

Questions at the intersection of strategic interaction, market design, and technological change.

R.01

Continuous-time gamesWork in progress

Takenoko Nyokki

A continuous-time model of strategic delay and simultaneous action, motivated by a Japanese coordination game and human response-time distributions.

R.02

Game theoryResearch note

Axioms for Correlated Equilibrium

Exploring how cloning, permutation, and consistency properties can characterize correlated equilibrium across spaces of normal-form games.

R.03

AI LaborResearch proposal

Tasks, AI, and the Architecture of Work

A task-level approach to AI substitution that restores heterogeneity in task quality, costs, and worker information beyond canonical job-level models.

R.04

Political economicsWork in progress

Why Tsarism Fell: Networks, Factions, and Revolutionary Coalitions

Jul 2026

R.05

LinguisticPublished paper

Diversity without Harmony: Loanwords of the Languages of the Third World After WWII

Quantitative literary analysis on works from Tanzania, Indonesia, and Paraguay

03 / WRITING

Notes & essays

Writing

Shorter arguments, research notes, and works in progress shared outside the formal paper format.

W.012026

When Does Fiat Money Lose Acceptability?

A literature-led note on coordination, beliefs, and the theoretical mechanisms behind monetary collapse.

Forthcoming

W.022026

Why Model Production at the Task Level?

Notes on continuous task spaces, CES aggregation, and what job-level models conceal about AI adoption.

Forthcoming

W.032025

Learning and Correlated Equilibrium

A concise map of calibration, regret, and the informational foundations of correlated play.

Forthcoming