Dian Gu

I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Economics at Ohio State University (OSU), and I expect to graduate in 2028.

I am interested in Experimental Economics, and my current work examines how recency and path-dependence affect decision-making when familiar environments become more complex.

Using a pseudo-online shopping experiment, we show that sequential exposure to similar tasks encourages local adjustments, while separating tasks increases the likelihood of reaching the global optimum.

Here is my CV.