Research

Working Papers

“Is It What You Say, or How You Say It?” (with Xiangdong Qin and Zhiren Wu) Under Review [pdf] NEW!

"No Soliciting? Information Avoidance from Exogenous and Endogenous Sources" (with Delong Meng) Under Review [pdf] NEW!

“Who Do You Want to Talk to? An Experimental Investigation of Network Formation under Strategic Information Transmission” (with Delong Meng) Under Review [pdf] NEW!

"Gender Differences in Preferences For Criminal Justice Error Types: An Experiment" (with Hudja, Stanton, Jason Ralston, Jason Aimone, Lucas Rentschler, and Charles North) Under Review [pdf] NEW!

Publication

"Is the 'Smoke-filled Room' Necessary? An Experimental Study of the Effect of Communication Networks on Collusion" (with Timothy Flannery) [pdf] , Accepted at Southern Economic Journal

"The Impact of Parental Migration on Social Interaction - A Framed Field Experiment with Left-behind Children in China" (with Hui Xu) Volume 187, July 2021, 246-257 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization [pdf]

"The Aspirational Income Hypothesis: Limits of the Relative Income Hypothesis" (with Elias Lafi Khalil, Jason Aimone, Daniel Houser, Deborah Martinez and Kun Qian) Volume 182, February 2021, 229-247, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization [pdf]

"Intention or Request: The Impact of Message Structure " (with Timothy Flannery) Feb 2021, Games, on Special Issue "Experiments on Communication in Games" [pdf]

"Collective Experimentation: A Laboratory Study" (with Cesar Martinelli and Mikhail Freer) Volume 175, July 2020, 365-379, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization [pdf]

"Demanding or Deferring? An Experimental Analysis of the Economic Value of Communication with Attitude" (with Daniel Houser) Volume 115, May, 2019, 381-395, Games and Economic Behavior [pdf]

"Embezzlement, Whistleblowing, and Organizational Architecture: An Experimental Investigation" (with Michael Makowsky) 2018, 147, 58-75, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization [pdf]

"The Effect of Digitalization on Penalty Payments: An Experimental Investigation" (with Xiangdong Qin) 2015, 4(8), Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology and Economics [pdf]

"Using an Exogenous Mechanism to Examine Efficient Probabilistic Punishment" (with Xiangdong Qin) 2013, 39, 1-10, Journal of Economic Psychology [pdf]

Research in Progress

"Determining When to Set the Price of Co-creation Products in the Freelance Market: Theory and Experiment" (with Ying Yang)

"Emotion Expression with Human vs. Robot" (with Xiangdong Qin and Zhiren Wu)

"Communicating the Return to Education: A Framed Field Experiment on Motivated Belief" (with Hui Xu and Delong Meng)

"Social Learning in Diversified Groups" (with Tingting Ding and Delong Meng)

"The Nature of Corruption: A Note on the Principles" (with Zhen Lei and Sen Tian)

"Gender Differences in Guessing: A Fair Design of Exams" (with Timothy Flannery and Benjamin Beranek)

"Multiple Remedies Contracts: An Experimental Study" (with Zhiyong Liu)

"Online Learning through Group Interactions: A Field Experiment" (with Ying Yang)

Teaching

Currently Offering

Behavioral Economics and Managerial Decisions (Fall)

Principles of Microeconomics (Fall)

Business Statistics (Spring & Fall)

Exploring the World of Business (Spring)

Courses Offered in the Past

Design and Analysis of Experimental Economics, Econometrics II, Intermediate Microeconomics, Industrial Behavioral Economics, Behavioral Economics