I am a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Economics, University of Auckland (New Zealand).
Currently, I am on leave at the Toulouse School of Economics for the 2025-2026 academic year.
RESEARCH
Publications in Refereed Journals:
Shifting Roles of Renewable and Fossil Energy in the ENTSO-E countries: Evidence from a Novel War-Induced Energy Intensity Index (with Hung Do, Chenghao Liu, Emilson Silva and Guanghao Wang), Energy Policy, 2026, forthcoming.
Nonlinear Impacts of Distributed Generation on Extreme Electricity Prices under Policy Shocks: Evidence from New Zealand’s Oil and Gas Exploration Ban (with Guanghao Wang and Hongtao Wan), Energy, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2025.137754.
News sentiment, climate conditions, and New Zealand electricity market: A real-time bidding policy perspective (with Guanghao Wang, Mingyue Selena Sheng and Miaomiao Tao, Energy, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2025.134784
The Impact of Renewable Energy on Extreme Volatility in Wholesale Electricity Prices: Evidence from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Countries, (with Mingyue Selena Sheng, Guanghao Wang and Le Wen), Journal of Cleaner Production, volume 484, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.144343
Deploying Solar Photovoltaic through Subsidies: An Australian Case (with Xiuyue Deng, Stephen Poletti, Timothy Hazledine and Miaomiao Tao), Journal of Environmental Management, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.123293
Interrelations Between Bitcoin Market Sentiment, Crude Oil, Gold, and the Stock Market with Bitcoin Prices: Vision from the Hedging Market, Studies in Economics and Finance, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1108/SEF-03-2024-0137
A Functional Estimation Approach to the First-Price Auction Models (with Andreea Enache and Jean-Pierre Florens), Journal of Econometrics, 2023, Pages 1564-1588, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2022.12.007
Cross-Border M&A Motives and Home Country Institutions: Role of Regulatory Quality and Dynamics in the Asia-Pacific region (with Peter Zámborský, Joseph Zheng Yan and Matthew Larsen), Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 2021, 14(10), 468; https://doi.org/10.3390/jrfm14100468
An Experimental Study of Gender Differences in Agency Relationships (with Ananish Chaudhuri and Sherry Li), Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Volume 90, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2020.101650
Spatial Effects of Wind Generation and Its Implication for Wind Farm Investment Decisions in New Zealand (with Le Wen and Basil Sharp), Energy Journal, Volume 41, 2020 doi: 10.5547/01956574.41.2.lwen
Pay cuts and layoffs in an experimental minimum effort coordination, (with Ananish Chaudhuri and Tony So), Economics Bulletin, September 2017, Volume 37, Issue 3, pages 2181-2197, https://www.accessecon.com/Pubs/EB/2017/Volume37/EB-17-V37-I3-P197.pdf
Mutual Productivity Spillovers in Slovakia: Absorptive Capacity, the Technology Gap and Non-Linear Effects, (with Peter Zamborsky and Elena Jayne Jacobs), Eastern European Economics 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00128775.2017.1291306
The Role of Framing, Inequity and History in a Corruption Game: Some Experimental Evidence (with Ananish Chaudhuri and Tirnud Paichayontvijit), Games 2016, 7(2), 13, https://doi.org/10.3390/g7020013
Gender differences in personnel management: Some experimental evidence (with Ananish Chaudhuri and Amy Cruiskshank), Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Volume 58, October 2015, Pages 20-32, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2015.06.003
Gender Differences in Trust and Reciprocity in Repeated Gift Exchange Games (with Ananish Chaudhuri), New Zealand Economic Papers, 45: 1, 81 — 95, 2011, https://doi.org/10.1080/00779954.2011.556072
Local Identification in Empirical Games of Incomplete Information (with Jean-Pierre Florens), Econometric Theory, Vol. 26(06), 1638-1662, 2010, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266466609990740
Comparison of Alternative Payment Mechanisms for French Treasury Auctions (with Olivier Armantier), Annals of Economics and Statistics / Les Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, N° 93-94 ; p. 135, 2009, https://doi.org/10.2307/27917386
Estimation and Comparison of Treasury Auction Formats when Bidders are Asymmetric (with Olivier Armantier), Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 21, No. 6, 745-779, 2006, https://doi.org/10.1002/jae.875.
Current Work
Electricity Auction Formats: Estimation and Comparison Method
(Un)Willing to lead? Men, Women and the Leadership Gap (with Ananish Chaudhuri, Sherry Li and Fei Song) (submitted)
First Price Auction Models using Wavelets (with Hassan Doosti and Isha Dewan)
Risk Attitude (Heterogeneity) and Voting Behaviour: Experimental Evidence (with Simona Fabrizi, Steffen Lippert, Addison Pan and Matthew Ryan)
The Impact of Fuel Prices, Electricity Prices, and Price Shocks on the Adoption of Electric Vehicles: Evidence from New Zealand (with Guanghao Wang and Mingyue Selena Sheng)
Available: https://www.iaee.org/proceedings/article/19071
Market Power in New Zealand Electricity Market during COVID Lockdown (with Marcus San Pedro, Guanghao Wang and Anita Wu)
Examining the Role of FinTech in Global Energy Efficiency: Empirical Evidence from Internet Development (with Miaomiao Tao and Guanghao Wang)
Enhancing Cryptocurrency Sentiment Analysis with Multimodal Features (with Chenghao Liu, Aniket Mahanti, Ranesh Naha and Guanghao Wang)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15825
An Analysis of the Impact of Distributed Generation Penetration on Extreme Wholesale Electricity Prices in New Zealand: A Perspective Before and After the 2018 Oil and Gas Exploration Ban (with Guanghao Wang and Marcus San Pedro)
Knowledge Efficiency (with Debasis Bandyopadhyay and Xueli Tang)
Assymmetric First Price Auction Models (with Andreea Enache and J.-P. Florens)
Regularised Non-Parametric Estimation of Asymmetric Affiliated First-Price Auction Models (with Fabian Dunker)
Regularised Non-Parametric Estimation of Ill-posed Games of Incomplete Information with Measurement Error (with J.-P. Florens)
Comparing Empirical Methods to Approximate and Estimate First-Price, Independent Private Values Auction (with Marcus San Pedro)
Appraisal of Factors Influencing Public Transport Patronage (with Judith Wang)