Working Papers and Publications
Working Papers:
Partner Choice and Morality: Preference Evolution under Stable Matching (with Ziwei Wang) [SSRN 4426394] (Revision Requested by Econometrica)
On the Role of Sacrifice in Reciprocity (with Simin He) [SSRN 4106126]
Institutional Screening and the Sustainability of Conditional Cooperation (with Ethan Holdahl)
I Work so I Choose: An Experiment on Worker Performance and Autonomy with Corporate Social Responsibility (with Natalia Candelo Londono and Sherry Xin Li)
Publications:
Trust and Lending: An Experimental Study (with Kyle Hyndman and Steven Chong Xiao) Quarterly Journal of Finance, Accepted.
"Decentralized Matching with Transfers: Experimental and Noncooperative Analyses" (with Simin He and Hanzhe Zhang and Xun Zhu) American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Accepted.
Marital Preferences and Stable Matching in Cultural Evolution (with Victor Hiller and Hanzhe Zhang) Journal of Economic Theory, 210 (2023), 105671. DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2023.105671
"Conflicts, Assortative Matching and the Evolution of Signaling Norms" (with Ethan Holdahl) Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, 18 (2023), 735-757. DOI:10.1007/s11403-023-00384-x
"Insititutions, Assortative Matching and Cultural Evolution", European Journal of Political Economy, 78 (2023), 102380 . DOI:10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2023.102380
"Statistical Inference in Evolutionary Dynamics" (with Ryoji Sawa), Games and Economic Behavior, 137 (2023), 294-316. DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2022.11.008
"Do Wall Street Landlords Undermine Renters' Welfare?" (with Umit Gurun, Serena Wenjing Xiao and Steven Chong Xiao) Review of Financial Studies, 36 (2023), 70-121. DOI:10.1093/rfs/hhac017
"Bargain to be Dominant" (with Xiao Yi), The American Naturalist, 200 (2022), 457-466. DOI: 10.1086/720666
"Limited Cognitive Abilities and Dominance Hierarchy" (with Hanyuan Huang) Acta Biotheoretica, 70 (2022), 17. DOI: 10.1007/s10441-022-09442-6
"Tributes to Bill Sandholm" (with Dai Zusai, Ryoji Sawa, Man Wah Cheung and Ratul Lahkar) Journal of Dynamics and Games, 9 (2022), 323-350. DOI: 10.3934/jdg.2022009
"Polarization, Antipathy, and Political Activism" (with Hanzhe Zhang) Economic Inquiry, 60 (2022), 1005-1017. DOI: 10.1111/ecin.13072
"Fighting Polarization with (Parental) Internalization" (with Moti Michaeli) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 194 (2022), 124-138. DOI: 101016/j.jebo.2021.2.017
"Preference Evolution in Different Matching Markets" (with Hanzhe Zhang) European Economic Review, 137 (2021), 103804. DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2021.103804
"Matching Markets and Cultural Selection" Review of Economic Design, 25 (2021), 267-288. DOI: s10058-021-00249-4
"Stochastic Value Formation" Dynamic Games and Applications, 11 (2021), 597-611. DOI:10.1007/s13235-020-00370-z
"Conflict of Interest in Third Party Reviews: An Experimental Study" (with Sung Ham and Ingrid Koch and Noah Lim) Management Science, 67 (2021), 7535-7559. DOI:10.1287/mnsc.2020.3863
"The Silent Majority?" (with Wallice Ao) Economics Letters, 193 (2020), 109350. DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2020.109350
"Labor Market Characteristics and Cultural Choice" (with Chris Ellis and Jon C. Thompson) Journal of Public Economic Theory, 22 (2020), 1584-1617. DOI: 10.1111/jpet.12449
"Compromise and Coordination: An Experimental Study" (with Simin He) Games and Economic Behavior, 119 (2020), 216-233. DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2019.11.003
"Labelling, Homophily and Preference Evolution" International Journal of Game Theory, 49 (2020), 1-22. DOI:10.1007/s00182-019-00672-6
"A Potential Game Approach to Modelling Evolution in a Connected Society" (with Dai Zusai) Nature: Human Behaviour, 3 (2019), 604–610. DOI:10.1038/s41562-019-0571-0
"Belief-Updating Rule and Sequential Reciprocity" (with Lianjie Jiang) Games and Economic Behavior, 113 (2019), 770-780. DOI:10.1016/j.geb.2018.11.004
"Social Connections and Cultural Heterogeneity" Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 29 (2019), 779-798. DOI:10.1007/s00191-018-0597-x
*Please see an older working paper for a more general setting including both strategic complementarity and substitutability.
"Reference-Dependent Preferences, Super-Dominance and Stochastic Stability" (with Ryoji Sawa) Journal of Mathematical Economics, 78 (2018), 96-104. DOI:10.1016/j.jmateco.2018.08.002
"Prospect Dynamics and Loss Dominance" (with Ryoji Sawa) Games and Economic Behavior, 112 (2018), 98-124. DOI:10.1016/j.geb.2018.07.006
*The following note makes a clarification on the uniqueness of the stochastically stable states.
"Legal Institutions and the Evolution of Moral Conducts" (with Jon C. Thompson) Journal of Public Economic Theory, 20(5) (2018), 725-741. DOI: 10.1111/j.jpet.12301
"On the Probabilistic Transmission of Continuous Cultural Traits" (with Man-Wah Cheung) Journal of Economic Theory, 174 (2018), 300-323. DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2018.01.002
"Entitlement to Assort: Democracy, Compromise Culture and Economic Stability" Economics Letters, 163 (2018), 146-148. DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2017.12.023
"The Interplay of Cultural Intolerance and Action-Assortativity for the Emergence of Cooperation and Homophily" (with Ennio Bilancini and Leonardo Boncinelli) European Economic Review, 102 (2018), 1-18. DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2017.12.001
"Indirect Higher Order Beliefs and Cooperation" Experimental Economics, 21(4) (2018), 858-876. DOI: 10.1007/s10683-017-9555-y
"Political Institutions and the Evolution of Character Traits" Games and Economic Behavior, 106 (2017), 260-276. DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2017.10.011
"Social Hierarchy and the Evolution of Behavior" International Game Theory Review, 19(4) (2017), 1750019-1-16. DOI: 10.1142/S0219198917500190
"A Note on Altruism in Asymmetric Games: An Indirect Evolutionary Approach" Biological Theory, 12(3) (2017), 181-188. DOI: 10.1007/s13752-017-0269-3
"Evolving Assortativity and Social Conventions" Economics Bulletin, 36 (2016), 936-941.
Peer-Reviewed Conference Publications
A Game Theoretical Analysis of Distributed Denial-Of-Service Defense Incentive (with Mingwei Zhang, Jun Li, and Peter Reiher) in 19th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), Hong Kong, October 2023.