Working Papers:
A Justification for Equal Sharing (with Hanzhe Zhang) [SSRN 5267187] (New!)
Preference Evolution under Partner Choice (with Ziwei Wang) [SSRN 4426394] (Revised and Resubmitted to 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)
Does AI Facilitate Trust? An Experimental Study (with Tanner Bivins, Ethan Holdahl, Connor T. Wiegand) [SSRN 4953065]
Publications:
Minds and Cooperation Rationality and Society, forthcoming. DOI: 10.1177/10434631251367155.
Trust and Lending: An Experimental Study (with Kyle Hyndman and Steven Chong Xiao) Quarterly Journal of Finance, 14(2024), 2440004. DOI: 10.1142/S2010139224400044.
"Decentralized Matching with Transfers: Experimental and Noncooperative Analyses" (with Simin He and Hanzhe Zhang and Xun Zhu) American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 16(2024) 406-439. DOI:10.1257/mic.20230030
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.
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.