Hanlin Lou

About me

I am a behavioural economist. I currently work as a Research Fellow at CEPAR, the School of Economics at the University of New South Wales. My main research interests are in the field of behavioural economics, behavioural financial economics, experimental finance, retirement finance, AI in health and finance, applied econometrics.

Education

2017 -  2022        Ph.D. in Economics, University of Technology Sydney.

2015 -  2016        Master of Applied Econometrics, Monash University.

2010 - 2014         Bachelor of Economics, Heilongjiang University (CHINA).

Research:

• “Improving credit card repayments, one nudge at a time” (with Elif Incekara-Hafalir and Robert Slonim),  Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, (2026).

• “Nudging a second after”, (with Kadir Atalay and Robert Slonim), Journal of Banking and Finance, (2026).

• “Small ponds are best to motivate performance with relative feedback” (with Lionel Page and Hui Xu),    Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, (2025).

Recent activities:

• 2026-4: Asia-Pacific Meeting of the Economic Science Association 2026, Melbourne, Australia

• 2026-4: Experimental Finance Asia/Pacific Regional Meeting 2026, Melbourne, Australia

• 2025-9: 11th Annual Conference on Contests, Melbourne, Australia

• 2025-8: 18th Annual Australian New Zealand Workshop in Experimental Economics, Sydney, Australia

• 2025-3: Third Cherry Blossom Experimental Economics Workshop, Wuhan, China

• 2025-3: 2025 Asia-Pacific Meeting of the Economic Science Association, Osaka, Japan

• 2024-12: The Australasian Meeting of the Econometric Society 2024, Melbourne, Australia

• 2024-9: 17th Annual Australian New Zealand Workshop in Experimental Economics, Canberra, Australia

• 2024-7: 2024 Foundations of Utility and Risk Conference, Brisbane, Australia

• 2024-6: 14th annual meeting of the Society for Experimental Finance, Stavanger, Norway

• 2024-5: 2024 ESA Asia-Pacific Meeting, Singapore, Singapore

• 2023-9: 16th Annual Australia New Zealand Workshop in Experimental Economics, Melbourne, Australia

• 2023-7: 2023 Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society, Beijing, China

• 2023-5: 2023 Asia-Pacific Economic Science Association Conference, Seoul, South Korea

• 2022-9: 15th Australia and New Zealand Workshop on Experimental Economics, Sydney, Australia

• 2021-7: ESA 2021 Global Online Conference