Curriculum Vitae

Mengxing Wei

Education

2013 - 2018

PhD in Economics, School of Business, Economics Division, University of Leicester

Supervisors: Prof. Sanjit Dhami, Prof. Ali al-Nowaihi, Dr. Subir Bose

2011 - 2013

Master in Corporate Governance, Nankai University.

2007 - 2011

Bachelor in Management, Shandong University.

Grants and Awards

2020 National Natural Science Foundation of China, 72003100, Principal Investigator: CNY 240,000

Fellowship of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, 2020M670616: CNY 50,000

2019 Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, 63202022: CNY 40,000

2017 Research Development Fund of College of Social Science (GBP 1,500, with Sanjit Dhami, Ali al-Nowaihi), University of Leicester

2015 CSSAH Postgraduate Fund

2014 Research Development Fund of College of Social Science (with Sanjit Dhami, Ali al-Nowaihi)

2013 GTA Full Scholarship

2011 Outstanding Dissertation

2010 National Scholarship, Outstanding Student in Shandong Province

2009 University Research Fund

Publications

Sanjit Dhami, Mengxing Wei, and Pavan Mamidi, 2024. "Religious identity, trust, reciprocity, and prosociality: Theory and evidence". Journal of Development Economics, 166.

Sanjit Dhami, Mengxing Wei, and Ali al-Nowaihi, 2023. “Classical and Belief-Based Gift Exchange Models: Theory and Evidence". Games and Economic Behavior, 138: 171-196.

Sanjit Dhami, Mengxing Wei, and Ali al-Nowaihi, 2019. “Public Goods Games and Psychological Utility: Theory and Evidence.” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 167: 361-390.

Mengxing Wei, Ali al-Nowaihi, and Sanjit Dhami, 2019. “Quantum Decision Theory, Bounded Rationality and the Ellsberg Paradox.” Studies in Microeconomics, 7(1): 110-139.

Guangrong Wang, Jianbiao Li, Zheng Li, Mengxing Wei, and Shaodong Li, 2016. “Medial frontal negativity reflects advantageous inequality aversion of proposers in the ultimatum game: An ERP study.” Brain Research, 1639: 38-46.

Guangrong Wang, Jianbiao Li, Xile Yin, Shuaiqi Li, and Mengxing Wei, 2016. “Modulating activity in the orbitofrontal cortex changes trustees' cooperation: A transcranial direct current stimulation study.” Behavioural Brain Research, 303: 71-75.

Conferences and Presentations

2021 · ESA Global Virtual Conference, Zoom

2020 · ESA Global Virtual Conference, Zoom;

ESA Junior Faculty Webinar, Zoom.

2019 · 2nd Wuhan Cherry Blossom Workshop in Experimental Economics, Wuhan;

· International Symposium on Brain-like Economics, Jinan;

· The 10th International Symposium on Corporate Governance, Tianjin.

2018 · 2018 Nanjing International Conference on Game Theory, Nanjing;

· 2018 Conference of the Asia-Pacific Economic Science Association, Brisbane;

· 2018 Chinese Economists Society North America Conference, Athens;

· Tsinghua Conference on Behavioral, Experimental and Theoretical Economics, Beijing;

· 2018 International Conference on Economic Theory and Applications, Chengdu.

2017 · Workshop on Behavioral Game Theory – Psychological Game Theory, Norwich.

· American Economic Association (AEA) Annual Meeting, Chicago.

2016 · Preference, Personality and Moral Behavior (by Armin Falk), Bergen;

· XXXI Jornadas de Economía Industrial, Palma de Mallorca;

· International Conference on Applied Financial Economics, Shanghai.

2015 · II Annual International PhD Conference in Economics (poster), Leicester;

· The 8th International Symposium on Corporate Governance, Tianjin;

· “Economic Design: The Economists as an Engineer” in honour of Al Roth, Exeter. (Summer school)