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Current Appointment:
University Distinguished Professor (特聘教授), Center for Economic Research, Shandong University, February 2023 to present
Co-Director, Center for Research on Experimental and Theoretical Economics (CREATE), Shandong University
Previous and Visiting Appointments:
Assistant Professor of Business Economics, Department of Decision Sciences and Managerial Economics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, August 2015 to August 2023
Guest Professor (Honorary), School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University, 2019 to 2022
Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow, Department of Economics, European University Institute, March 2018 to April 2018
Visiting Scholar (Honorary), Department of Decision Sciences and Managerial Economics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, March 2015 to July 2015
Visiting Experimental Research Scholar, Centre for Experimental Social Sciences, Nuffield College, University of Oxford, February 2015
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, July 2010 to July 2016 (on leave Spring 2015 to Spring 2016)
Associate Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, July 2001 to July 2003 (Graduate Summer Intern, June to September 2004, June to September 2005)
Education:
Ph.D., Economics, University of California, San Diego, June 2010
Dissertation: Essays in Applied Behavioral Economics: Evidence from the Field
Advisors: Vincent P. Crawford and Julie Berry Cullen
M.A., Economics, University of California, San Diego, June 2005
B.A., Economics, Mathematics, Wellesley College, June 2001
Research Areas: Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, Microeconomics
Selected Publications: (see Publications tab for links)
[10] "International Trade with Social Comparisons", with Zeng Lian, Lin Lu and Jie Zheng - Review of International Economics, Vol. 29 (August 2021), p. 533 - 556.
[9] "Endogenous Rewards Promote Cooperation", with Chun-lei Yang, Boyu Zhang, Gary Charness and Cong Li - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 115, No. 40 (October 2018), p. 9968 - 9973.
[8] "Are Work Intensity and Healthy Eating Substitutes? Field Evidence on Food Choices under Varying Workloads", with Jie Zheng - Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 145 (January 2018), p. 370 - 401.
[7] "Ex-Ante Fairness in the Boston and Serial Dictatorship Mechanisms under Pre-exam and Post-exam Preference Submission", with Jie Zheng and Xiaohan Zhong - Games and Economic Behavior, Special Issue in Honor of John O. Ledyard, Vol. 101 (January 2017), p. 98 - 120.
[6] "Extortion Can Outperform Generosity in the Iterated Prisoners' Dilemma", with Zhijian Wang, Yanran Zhou, Jie Zheng and Bin Xu - Nature Communications, Vol. 7, No. 11125 (April 2016).
[5] "Preference Submission Timing in School Choice Matching: Testing Fairness and Efficiency in the Laboratory", with Jie Zheng and Xiaohan Zhong - Experimental Economics, Vol. 19 (March 2016), p. 116 - 150.
[4] "Selling to Biased Believers: Strategies of Online Lottery Ticket Vendors", with Jia Yuan - Economic Inquiry, Vol. 53 (July 2015), p. 1506 - 1521.
[3] "Deciding When to Quit: Reference-Dependence over Slot Machine Outcomes", with Jie Zheng - American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 105 (May 2015), p. 366 - 370.
[2] "The Cross-sectional 'Gambler's Fallacy': Set Representativeness in Lottery Number Choices", with Jia Yuan - Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 109 (January 2015), p. 163 - 172.
[1] "Staying Ahead and Getting Even: Risk Attitudes of Experienced Poker Players", with David Eil - Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 87 (September 2014), p. 50 - 69.
Research Grants:
National Natural Science Foundation of China, Research Fund for International Excellent Young Scientists, (P.I.) 2025 – 2026
National Natural Science Foundation of China, General Project, (P.I.) 2024 – 2027
Hong Kong Research Grants Council, General Research Fund, (P.I.) 2023 – 2025
Hong Kong Research Grants Council, General Research Fund, (P.I.) 2020 – 2022
Hong Kong Research Grants Council, General Research Fund, (P.I.) 2017 – 2020
Chinese University of Hong Kong Direct Grants, (P.I.) 2015 – 2023
National Natural Science Foundation of China, Joint China-Russia Research Project Grant on Transportation Systems (co-Investigator, with Jie Zheng; P.I. Mingzhi Li; Russia P.I. Vladimir V. Mazalov) 2016 – 2018
Independent Research Project Grant, Tsinghua University, (P.I.) 2016 – 2018
Ministry of Education Grant for Ph.D. Researchers, (P.I.) 2014 – 2015
National Natural Science Foundation of China, Young Faculty Grant, (P.I.) 2014 – 2016
Nourishing the Future, 3ie: International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (co-P.I.), 2013 – 2016
Independent Research Project Grant, Tsinghua University, (P.I.) 2012 – 2015
Annual Fund for Humanities and Social Science, Tsinghua University, (P.I.) 2011-2012
Junior Faculty Start-up Research Fund, Tsinghua University, 2010
UCSD Institute for Applied Economics Grant, 2009
Graduate Student Research Grant, UCSD Department of Economics, 2009
Recent Invited Presentations:
2025 – 2026: University of Macau – Faculty of Business Administration; University of Nottingham, Ningbo Campus; 12th International Conference on the Chinese Economy: Past Present and Future, Center for Economic Research, Shandong University (keynote); Beijing Normal University – Hong Kong Baptist University, Zhuhai; Symposium for Theory and Experiment, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics – IES; Shanghai University of Finance and Economics – School of Digital Economy; Shanghai University of International Business and Economics; Zhejiang Gongshang University; Zhejiang University – School of Management; Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics; Henan Institute of Technology; Beijing Workshop on Microeconomics: Experiments, Empirics and Theory (MEET); Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University; Henan University/INFER Workshop on Applied Macroeconomics; China Operations Research Society, Game Theory Branch, Annual Conference – Xian; 2025 Econometric Society World Meeting – Seoul; International Conference on Consumption Studies – Xiangtan University
2024 – 2025: Chinese Economists Society Meeting, Guangzhou; Southwest Petroleum University; Economic Science Association World Meeting, Beijing; Southwestern University of Finance and Economics; Xiamen University – Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics; Dongbei University of Finance and Economics – Institute for Advanced Economic Research, School of Finance, School of Digital Economy; Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai; University of Macau; Conference on the Chinese Economy: Past, Present and Future – Xian Jiaotong Liverpool University; Behavioral and Experimental Economics Workshop 2024 – South China Normal University; Shandong University Applied Micro Workshop, Fall 2024; Xiangtan University – Business School; Guangdong Finance University; 2024 Beijing MEET (Microeconomics – Empirics, Experiments and Theory); Zhejiang Gongshang University; Sun Yat-Sen University – Lingnan College; Jinan University – Guangzhou; South China Normal University; Workshop of the Laboratory Opening Ceremony – Dongbei University of Finance and Economics; Tsinghua University – School of Economics and Management; Economic Science Association European Meeting, Helsinki; The Future of Contest Theory Workshop, Berlin
2023 – 2024: GAMES, 7th World Congress of the Game Theory Society, Beijing; 2024 Conference on Mechanism and Institution Design, Budapest; East China University of Science and Technology; Asia Meeting of the Econometric Society – Zhejiang University; China Behavioral and Experimental Economics Forum (BEEF) – Shandong University (keynote); Zhejiang Gongshang University; 3rd CeDEx China Workshop on Behavioral and Experimental Economics – University of Nottingham, Ningbo; Dongbei University; Liaoning University; 2024 Behavioral and Experimental Workshop – Dongbei University of Finance and Economics; Tsinghua University – School of Economics and Management; Shenzhen University; 7th Henan University/INFER Workshop on Applied Macroeconomics; Zhengzhou University of Light Industry; Southwestern University of Finance and Economics; The 5th Brain-like Economics Seminar and Brain-like Economics Discipline Construction Forum – Shandong University; Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University; University of Nottingham, Ningbo; Shanghai University of Finance and Economics; Beijing Foreign Studies University; SDU BESS Golden Autumn Cooperation Workshop; Nanjing University, Suzhou Campus
2022 – 2023: Zhongnan University of Economics and Law; Asia-Pacific Economic Science Association Meeting, Seoul (online); Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University; Wuhan University Spring Workshop on Behavioral and Experimental Economics; Department of Economics, Lingnan College, Sun Yat-Sen University; Shandong University Applied Micro Workshop Series: Charitable Giving and Voluntary Public Goods Provision; Central University of Finance and Economics
2021 – 2022: 2022 Conference on Mechanism and Institution Design (online); International Conference on Game Theory and Applications (online); Lingnan University
2020 – 2021: 2021 Environmental Economics Workshop, Xiamen University (online); 2021 Workshop on Industrial Organization, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; School of Economics, Shandong University; School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University (online); Economic Science Association Global Meeting (online)
2019 – 2020: Econometric Society World Congress (online); 2019 Beijing Normal University Conference on Experimental Economics; 4th Resource, Environmental and Industrial Policy Workshop – Tianjin University; Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics, Psychology and Economics; Experimental Finance 2019, Asia Pacific Regional Conference, Singapore; Singapore Economic Review Conference
2018 – 2019: 30th International Conference on Game Theory, Stony Brook University; 2019 SWUFE Economic Theory Workshop – Southwestern University of Finance and Economics; 2019 SUFE Workshop of Behavioral and Experimental Economics – Shanghai University of Finance and Economics; Asia Meeting of the Econometric Society – Xiamen University; 2019 Beijing International Workshop on Microeconomics: Empirics, Experiments and Theory (MEET) – Beijing Foreign Studies University; China Center for Behavioral Economics and Finance, School of Economics, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics; Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University; Beijing Jiaotong University – School of Economics and Management; 5th Henan University/INFER Workshop on Applied Macroeconomics; 2nd Wuhan Cherry Blossom Workshop in Experimental Economics; Winter Workshop on Microeconomic Theory and Experimental Economics – Wuhan University, Economics and Management School; Sun Yat-Sen University, Lingnan College – Department of Finance; The 6th International Conference on Transportation and Space-time Economics, Beijing Jiaotong University; Inter-departmental Research Workshop – Chinese University of Hong Kong Business School
Membership: Econometric Society, American Economic Association, Economic Science Association, Game Theory Society, Society for Advancement of Behavioral Economics, Chinese Economists Society, Operations Research Society of China
Languages: English (native), Mandarin Chinese (intermediate), Cantonese (basic daily), Spanish (elementary)
Citizenship: USA, Hong Kong Permanent Resident
Current Appointment:
University Distinguished Professor (特聘教授), Center for Economic Research, Shandong University, February 2023 to present
Co-Director, Center for Research on Experimental and Theoretical Economics (CREATE), Shandong University
Previous and Visiting Appointments:
Assistant Professor of Business Economics, Department of Decision Sciences and Managerial Economics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, August 2015 to August 2023
Guest Professor (Honorary), School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University, 2019 to 2022
Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow, Department of Economics, European University Institute, March 2018 to April 2018
Visiting Scholar (Honorary), Department of Decision Sciences and Managerial Economics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, March 2015 to July 2015
Visiting Experimental Research Scholar, Centre for Experimental Social Sciences, Nuffield College, University of Oxford, February 2015
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, July 2010 to July 2016 (on leave Spring 2015 to Spring 2016)
Associate Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, July 2001 to July 2003 (Graduate Summer Intern, June to September 2004, June to September 2005)
Education:
Ph.D., Economics, University of California, San Diego, June 2010
Dissertation: Essays in Applied Behavioral Economics: Evidence from the Field
Advisors: Vincent P. Crawford and Julie Berry Cullen
M.A., Economics, University of California, San Diego, June 2005
B.A., Economics, Mathematics, Wellesley College, June 2001
Research Areas: Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, Microeconomics
Selected Publications: (see Publications tab for links)
[10] "International Trade with Social Comparisons", with Zeng Lian, Lin Lu and Jie Zheng - Review of International Economics, Vol. 29 (August 2021), p. 533 - 556.
[9] "Endogenous Rewards Promote Cooperation", with Chun-lei Yang, Boyu Zhang, Gary Charness and Cong Li - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 115, No. 40 (October 2018), p. 9968 - 9973.
[8] "Are Work Intensity and Healthy Eating Substitutes? Field Evidence on Food Choices under Varying Workloads", with Jie Zheng - Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 145 (January 2018), p. 370 - 401.
[7] "Ex-Ante Fairness in the Boston and Serial Dictatorship Mechanisms under Pre-exam and Post-exam Preference Submission", with Jie Zheng and Xiaohan Zhong - Games and Economic Behavior, Special Issue in Honor of John O. Ledyard, Vol. 101 (January 2017), p. 98 - 120.
[6] "Extortion Can Outperform Generosity in the Iterated Prisoners' Dilemma", with Zhijian Wang, Yanran Zhou, Jie Zheng and Bin Xu - Nature Communications, Vol. 7, No. 11125 (April 2016).
[5] "Preference Submission Timing in School Choice Matching: Testing Fairness and Efficiency in the Laboratory", with Jie Zheng and Xiaohan Zhong - Experimental Economics, Vol. 19 (March 2016), p. 116 - 150.
[4] "Selling to Biased Believers: Strategies of Online Lottery Ticket Vendors", with Jia Yuan - Economic Inquiry, Vol. 53 (July 2015), p. 1506 - 1521.
[3] "Deciding When to Quit: Reference-Dependence over Slot Machine Outcomes", with Jie Zheng - American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 105 (May 2015), p. 366 - 370.
[2] "The Cross-sectional 'Gambler's Fallacy': Set Representativeness in Lottery Number Choices", with Jia Yuan - Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 109 (January 2015), p. 163 - 172.
[1] "Staying Ahead and Getting Even: Risk Attitudes of Experienced Poker Players", with David Eil - Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 87 (September 2014), p. 50 - 69.
Research Grants:
National Natural Science Foundation of China, Research Fund for International Excellent Young Scientists, (P.I.) 2025 – 2026
National Natural Science Foundation of China, General Project, (P.I.) 2024 – 2027
Hong Kong Research Grants Council, General Research Fund, (P.I.) 2023 – 2025
Hong Kong Research Grants Council, General Research Fund, (P.I.) 2020 – 2022
Hong Kong Research Grants Council, General Research Fund, (P.I.) 2017 – 2020
Chinese University of Hong Kong Direct Grants, (P.I.) 2015 – 2023
National Natural Science Foundation of China, Joint China-Russia Research Project Grant on Transportation Systems (co-Investigator, with Jie Zheng; P.I. Mingzhi Li; Russia P.I. Vladimir V. Mazalov) 2016 – 2018
Independent Research Project Grant, Tsinghua University, (P.I.) 2016 – 2018
Ministry of Education Grant for Ph.D. Researchers, (P.I.) 2014 – 2015
National Natural Science Foundation of China, Young Faculty Grant, (P.I.) 2014 – 2016
Nourishing the Future, 3ie: International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (co-P.I.), 2013 – 2016
Independent Research Project Grant, Tsinghua University, (P.I.) 2012 – 2015
Annual Fund for Humanities and Social Science, Tsinghua University, (P.I.) 2011-2012
Junior Faculty Start-up Research Fund, Tsinghua University, 2010
UCSD Institute for Applied Economics Grant, 2009
Graduate Student Research Grant, UCSD Department of Economics, 2009
Recent Invited Presentations:
2025 – 2026: University of Macau – Faculty of Business Administration; University of Nottingham, Ningbo Campus; 12th International Conference on the Chinese Economy: Past Present and Future, Center for Economic Research, Shandong University (keynote); Beijing Normal University – Hong Kong Baptist University, Zhuhai; Symposium for Theory and Experiment, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics – IES; Shanghai University of Finance and Economics – School of Digital Economy; Shanghai University of International Business and Economics; Zhejiang Gongshang University; Zhejiang University – School of Management; Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics; Henan Institute of Technology; Beijing Workshop on Microeconomics: Experiments, Empirics and Theory (MEET); Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University; Henan University/INFER Workshop on Applied Macroeconomics; China Operations Research Society, Game Theory Branch, Annual Conference – Xian; 2025 Econometric Society World Meeting – Seoul; International Conference on Consumption Studies – Xiangtan University
2024 – 2025: Chinese Economists Society Meeting, Guangzhou; Southwest Petroleum University; Economic Science Association World Meeting, Beijing; Southwestern University of Finance and Economics; Xiamen University – Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics; Dongbei University of Finance and Economics – Institute for Advanced Economic Research, School of Finance, School of Digital Economy; Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai; University of Macau; Conference on the Chinese Economy: Past, Present and Future – Xian Jiaotong Liverpool University; Behavioral and Experimental Economics Workshop 2024 – South China Normal University; Shandong University Applied Micro Workshop, Fall 2024; Xiangtan University – Business School; Guangdong Finance University; 2024 Beijing MEET (Microeconomics – Empirics, Experiments and Theory); Zhejiang Gongshang University; Sun Yat-Sen University – Lingnan College; Jinan University – Guangzhou; South China Normal University; Workshop of the Laboratory Opening Ceremony – Dongbei University of Finance and Economics; Tsinghua University – School of Economics and Management; Economic Science Association European Meeting, Helsinki; The Future of Contest Theory Workshop, Berlin
2023 – 2024: GAMES, 7th World Congress of the Game Theory Society, Beijing; 2024 Conference on Mechanism and Institution Design, Budapest; East China University of Science and Technology; Asia Meeting of the Econometric Society – Zhejiang University; China Behavioral and Experimental Economics Forum (BEEF) – Shandong University (keynote); Zhejiang Gongshang University; 3rd CeDEx China Workshop on Behavioral and Experimental Economics – University of Nottingham, Ningbo; Dongbei University; Liaoning University; 2024 Behavioral and Experimental Workshop – Dongbei University of Finance and Economics; Tsinghua University – School of Economics and Management; Shenzhen University; 7th Henan University/INFER Workshop on Applied Macroeconomics; Zhengzhou University of Light Industry; Southwestern University of Finance and Economics; The 5th Brain-like Economics Seminar and Brain-like Economics Discipline Construction Forum – Shandong University; Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University; University of Nottingham, Ningbo; Shanghai University of Finance and Economics; Beijing Foreign Studies University; SDU BESS Golden Autumn Cooperation Workshop; Nanjing University, Suzhou Campus
2022 – 2023: Zhongnan University of Economics and Law; Asia-Pacific Economic Science Association Meeting, Seoul (online); Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University; Wuhan University Spring Workshop on Behavioral and Experimental Economics; Department of Economics, Lingnan College, Sun Yat-Sen University; Shandong University Applied Micro Workshop Series: Charitable Giving and Voluntary Public Goods Provision; Central University of Finance and Economics
2021 – 2022: 2022 Conference on Mechanism and Institution Design (online); International Conference on Game Theory and Applications (online); Lingnan University
2020 – 2021: 2021 Environmental Economics Workshop, Xiamen University (online); 2021 Workshop on Industrial Organization, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; School of Economics, Shandong University; School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University (online); Economic Science Association Global Meeting (online)
2019 – 2020: Econometric Society World Congress (online); 2019 Beijing Normal University Conference on Experimental Economics; 4th Resource, Environmental and Industrial Policy Workshop – Tianjin University; Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics, Psychology and Economics; Experimental Finance 2019, Asia Pacific Regional Conference, Singapore; Singapore Economic Review Conference
2018 – 2019: 30th International Conference on Game Theory, Stony Brook University; 2019 SWUFE Economic Theory Workshop – Southwestern University of Finance and Economics; 2019 SUFE Workshop of Behavioral and Experimental Economics – Shanghai University of Finance and Economics; Asia Meeting of the Econometric Society – Xiamen University; 2019 Beijing International Workshop on Microeconomics: Empirics, Experiments and Theory (MEET) – Beijing Foreign Studies University; China Center for Behavioral Economics and Finance, School of Economics, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics; Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University; Beijing Jiaotong University – School of Economics and Management; 5th Henan University/INFER Workshop on Applied Macroeconomics; 2nd Wuhan Cherry Blossom Workshop in Experimental Economics; Winter Workshop on Microeconomic Theory and Experimental Economics – Wuhan University, Economics and Management School; Sun Yat-Sen University, Lingnan College – Department of Finance; The 6th International Conference on Transportation and Space-time Economics, Beijing Jiaotong University; Inter-departmental Research Workshop – Chinese University of Hong Kong Business School
Membership: Econometric Society, American Economic Association, Economic Science Association, Game Theory Society, Society for Advancement of Behavioral Economics, Chinese Economists Society, Operations Research Society of China
Languages: English (native), Mandarin Chinese (intermediate), Cantonese (basic daily), Spanish (elementary)
Citizenship: USA, Hong Kong Permanent Resident