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RESEARCH INTERESTS
Experimental Economics, Experimental Finance, Applied Microeconomics, Applied Game Theory
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Finance, City University of Hong Kong, July 2021 -
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and Finance, City University of Hong Kong, August 2015 - June 2021
Assistant Professor, Engineering Systems and Design, Singapore University of Technology and Design, August 2013 - August 2015
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Social Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA, 2013
M.S. in Social Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA, 2010
M.S. in Quantitative Economics, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi, India, 2008
B.S. in Economics (Honours), Presidency College, Kolkata, India, 2006
RESEARCH GRANTS
“Dynamic Interactions, Information Transmission, and Asset Prices: Experiments”, HK$ 327,993, General Research Fund (GRF) #11500321, Hong Kong Research Grant Council (RGC), 2021-2024 (PI)
“Experiments on Information Sharing and Asset Price Dynamics”, HK$ 100,000, Strategic Research Grant (Project #7005471), City University of Hong Kong, 2020-2022 (PI)
“Experiments on Motives to Trade, Consumption Smoothing and Asset Price Bubbles”, HK$ 336,322, General Research Fund (GRF) #11500019, Hong Kong Research Grant Council (RGC), 2019-2022 (PI)
“Information Exchange and Social Trading in Experimental Asset Markets”, HK$ 353,520, General Research Fund (GRF) #11500118, Hong Kong Research Grant Council (RGC), 2018-2021 (PI)
“Experiments on Action Revision in Games”, HK$ 100,000, Strategic Research Grant (Project #7005000 (EF)), City University of Hong Kong, 2017-2019 (PI)
“Experiments on Cooperation, Trust and Markets”, HK$ 300,000, Start-up Research Grant (Project #7200511 (EF)), City University of Hong Kong, 2016-2018 (PI)
“The Evolution of Cooperation, Endogenous Partner Selection and Homophily in Social Networks”, S$ 248,945, AcRF Tier-2 Grant, Ministry of Education (MOE), Singapore, 2015-2018 (co-PI)
“Start-up Grant”, S$ 100,000, Start-up Research Grant, Singapore University of Technology and Design, 2013-2015 (PI)
CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION AND SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS
2020: ASSA Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA
2019: SEA 89th Annual Meetings, Fort Lauderdale, USA; ESA North-American Meetings, Los Angeles, USA; SEF Asia-Pacific Regional Conference, Singapore; Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society, Xiamen, China; ESA Asia-Pacific Conference, NYU, Abu Dhabi; ASSA Annual Meeting, Atlanta, USA
2018: HKUST Workshop on Experimental Economics, Hong Kong; Behavioral and Experimental Seminar, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai; NTU Behavioral and Experimental Economics Workshop, Singapore; China Greater Bay Area Experimental Economics Workshop, Hong Kong; ASSA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, USA
2017: SURE International Workshop, Seoul National University, South Korea
2016: 6th Xiamen University International Workshop on Experimental Economics, Xiamen, China; North-American Economic Science Association Conference, Tucson, Arizona
2015: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei; ASSA Annual Meeting, Boston, USA
2014: Economic Science Association World Conference, Hawaii, USA
2013: Economic Growth Centre, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; SUTD, Singapore; IFPRI, Washington D.C., USA; ASSA Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA
2012: North-American Economic Science Association Conference, Tucson, Arizona
2011: North-American Economic Science Association Conference, Tucson, Arizona
2010: SISL/YAHOO! Workshop, Huntington Beach, California; SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar, Caltech, Pasadena, USA
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2020 Vernon L. Smith Excellence Award in Experimental Finance for “Costly Information Acquisition, Social Networks, and Asset Prices: Experimental Evidence” published in the Journal of Finance (with Edward Halim and Yohanes E. Riyanto); awarded by the Society for Experimental Finance for the most outstanding article published in a peer-reviewed journal in 2019 using the method of ‘Experimental Finance’
Best Paper Award for ““Lucas” in the laboratory” (with Elena Asparouhova, Peter Bossaerts and William Zame) at the Behavioral Finance and Capital Markets Conference, Centre for Applied Financial Studies, University of Adelaide, August 2013
Graduate Fellowship, California Institute of Technology, 2008-2013
Fellowship, Indian Statistical Institute, 2006-2008
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICES
Professional Memberships: American Economic Association (AEA), Economic Science Association (ESA), Society for Experimental Finance (SEF)
Reviewer for: Advances in Economics and Business, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Econometrica, Economics Bulletin, Economic Inquiry, Economic Modelling, Economic Theory, European Economic Review, Games, Games and Economic Behavior, International Economic Review, International Journal of Psychology, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Psychology, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Politics, Journal of Public Economics, Management Science, Review of Finance, Sadhana, Scientific Reports
Member, Admissions Committee of the MIT-SUTD Dual Masters’ Program, January 2015-August 2015
Member, SUTD Institutional Review Board (IRB), September 2014-August 2015