Publications

• Does Disappointment Aversion Explain Non-Truthful Reporting in Strategy-Proof Mechanisms? (with Peter Katuscak, Thomas Kittsteiner, and Katharina Kütter), Experimental Economics, 2025.

• Do Policy Instruments That Ban Social Identity Expression Increase Economic Cooperation? (with Daphne Chang, Erin Krupka, and Zhewei Song), European Economic Review, 170(104847), 2024.

• Best practices in replication: A case study of common information in coordination games (with Yan Chen and Yohanes E. Riyanto), Experimental Economics, 24: 2-30, 2021.

• Rhetoric Matters: A social identity explanation for the anomaly of framing (with Daphne Chang and Erin Krupka), Games and Economic Behavior, 116: 158-178, 2019.

• Can self selection create high-performing teams? (with Jie Gong), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 148: 20-33, 2018.

• Coordination with Endogenous Groups, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 141:177-187, 2017.

• Does Team Competition Increase Pro-Social Lending? Evidence from Online Microfinance (with Yan Chen, Yang Liu and Qiaozhu Mei), Games and Economic Behavior, 101: 311-333, 2017.

• Recommending teams promotes prosocial lending in online microfinance (with Wei Ai, Yan Chen, Qiaozhu Mei and Webb Phillips), PNAS, 133(52): 14944–14948, 2016.

• "I Loan Because...": Understanding Motivations for Pro-Social Lending (with Yang Liu, Yan Chen, Qiaozhu Mei and Suzy Salib), in Proceedings of the fifth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining (WSDM '12, acceptance rate 20.7%) [refereed Computer Science conference], 2012.

• The Potential of Social Identity for Equilibrium Selection (with Yan Chen), American Economic Review, 101(6): 2562-2589, 2011.

• Risky Procurement with an Insider Bidder (with Jan Boone, Jacob Goeree and Angelo Polydoro), Experimental Economics, 12(4): 417-436, 2009.

Working Papers

Ethnic Bias, Migration, and the Formation of New Social Identities among Returnees in Nepal (with Slesh Shrestha)