Research Interest
Hi! I am currently an Assistant Professor at the School of Economics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (SHUFE), a position I've held since August 2024. My current work is on theories and experiments in dynamic mechanism design and behavioral game theory.
Education
2019-2024, Ph.D., Economics, George Mason University
2017-2019, M.S., Finance, Fudan University
2013-2017, B.A., Economics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
2014-2017, B.S., Mathematics (minor), Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Research
Publications
Trust, Lies, and Inequality (with Ninghua Du and Daniel Houser), American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2024, 83(1), 249–262. [Link]
The Impacts of the Origins of Social Status on Deception: Evidence from a Lab Experiment (with Hui Xu and Jie Liang), South China Journal of Economics, 2019, 28(2):86-107 [Link]
Working Papers
Learning in Matching (with Simin He and Gaoji Hu). [SSRN]
Allegiance Games (with Daniel Houser and Dongyang Li). [SSRN]
Evaluating Non-Clairvoyant Dynamic Mechanisms: Theory and Experiment (with Daniel Houser, Revise and Resubmit at Games and Economic Behavior). [SSRN]
How Sellers Choose Mechanism: Information Matters (with Daniel Houser). [SSRN]
Working in Progress
Using (merit-based) default to reduce gender gaps in the contribution of ideas: Evidence from an online experiment (with Jingnan Chen, Daniel Houser, and Erte Xiao).
Incompetence Trap (with Cesar Martinelli).
Teaching
Instructor
Intermediate Microeconomics, SHUFE, Spring 2025, Fall 2025
Econ 103: Microeconomics Principles, GMU, Summer 2022
Co-instructor
Econ 838: Econometrics II (with Daniel Houser) GMU, Fall 2021, 2022, 2023
Econ 445: Design and Analysis of Experiment (with Daniel Houser) GMU, Fall 2021, 2022, 2023
Econ 445 (Online): Design and Analysis of Experiment (with Daniel Houser) GMU, Summer 2023
Teaching Assistant
Econ 612 (Online): Microeconomics II, GMU, Spring 2021, Summer 2021
Econ 611 (Online): Microeconomics, GMU, Fall 2021
Stochastic Calculus for Finance, Fudan University, Fall 2018
Game Theory, Fudan University, Fall 2017