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• My research focuses on experimental and behavioral economics and finance.
• Research topics I have worked on: FinTech, asset market experiment, gender equlity, crime deterrance
• Google Scholar Monash Website

Employment

• Senior lecturer, Department of Banking and Finance, Monash University, 2023-
• Assistant Professor, Xiamen University, 2021-2023

Education

• Ph.D. in Economics, Monash University, 2017-2020
  • Advisors: Andreas Leibbrandt, Lata Gangadharan, Matthew Leister
• Visiting Ph.D. student, University of Chicago, 2019
  • Advisor: John List
• Bachelor of Econometrics (Honors class I), University of Queensland, 2015
• Bachelor of Economics, University of Queensland, 2012-2014
• Bachelor of Finance, Shandong University, 2010-2014

Publications

• Deterrance in Networks, joint with Lata Gangadharan, C. Matthew Leister. Games and Economic Behavior, 2025, 150: 501-517.
• Can Artificial Intelligence Improve Gender Equality? Evidence from a Natural Experiment, joint with Difang Huang, Chen Lin. Management Science, 2025+.
• Effects of lockdowns in shaping socioeconomic behaviors, joint with Jingcun Cao, Lata Gangadharan, Difang Huang, Chen Lin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 2024, 121(43).
• Tournaments with safeguards: A blessing or a curse for women?, joint with Andreas Leibbrandt. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 221: 292-306.
• Gender-specific favoritism in science, joint with Difang Huang. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 221: 94-109.
• Reform scientific elections to improve gender equality, joint with Difang Huang. Nature Human Behaviour, 2022.
• Shadow Banking in a Crisis: Evidence from FinTech During COVID-19, joint with Difang Huang. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2021, 56(7): 2320–2355.
  • [SSRN] [Internet Appendix] [JFQA COVID Symposium] [VoxChina] [Featured in Patrick T. Harker’s speech]
• Do regulations work? A comprehensive analysis of price limits and trading restrictions in experimental asset markets with deterministic and stochastic fundamental values, joint with Kenan Kalaycı, Andreas Leibbrandt, Carlos Oyarzun. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 178: 59-84.
  • [SSRN]

Student supervision

• [2028 (expected)], Ruize Sun, PhD, field: theory and fintech
• [2025] Ziquan Zheng, MCom, field: behavioural and household finance, placement: Aalto PhD in Finance

Media interviews

• Discussions on Qianhai Special Economic Zone, CGTN
• Discussions on the development of Xiamen, CGTN

Personal

• I like classical music. I am a pianist and flutist. My favorite composers are Beethoven, Chopin, and Mozart.
• I like outdoor activities.