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.

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

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

Evaluating Non-Clairvoyant Dynamic Mechanisms: Theory and Experiment (with Daniel Houser, Revise and Resubmit at Games and Economic Behavior). [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).

The Allegiance Game (with Daniel Houser and Dongyang Li).

Incompetence Trap (with Cesar Martinelli).

Instructor

Intermediate Microeconomics, SHUFE, Spring 2025

Econ 103: Microeconomics Principles, GMU, Summer 2022

Evaluation: 4.85/5

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