I'm an associate professor of economics at the China Center For Behavioral Economics and Finance @ Southwestern University of Finance and Economics. I will be joining the University of Macau, Department of Economics in the Fall of 2024.
My research uses experiments to better understanding how group behaviour is influenced by social norms, market interactions and the use of prediction markets.
I'm also interested in basic game theoretic issues, experimental methodology and modelling bounded-rationality behaviour in strategic interactions.
Email: lawrence.cy.choo [at] gmail.com
CV [link]
Education
PhD Economics, University of Exeter (2014)
Msc Economics & Experimental Economics, University of Exeter (2010)
Bsc Economics & Management, University of London external study (2009)
Academic Positions
Associate Professor, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (Jul 2021 to Present)
Assistant Professor, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (Sept 2020 to Jun 2021)
Postdoc, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Oct 2014 to Aug 2020)
Research Fellow, University of Haifa (Nov 2018 to Jan 2020)
Publications
Geoffrey Castillo, Lawrence Choo and Veronika Grimm (2022). "Are groups always more dishonest than individuals? The case of salient negative externalities" Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 198, 598-611. [link]
Lawrence Choo, Todd R. Kaplan and Ro’i Zultan (2022). "Manipulation and (mis)trust in prediction markets". Management Science. [link]
Lawrence Choo and Xiaoyu Zhou (2022). "Can market selection reduce anomalous behaviour in games?" European Economic Review, 2022 (103958). [link]
Surajeet Chakravarty, Lawrence Choo, Todd R. Kaplan and Miguel A. Fonseca (2021). "Should regulators always be transparent? A bank run experiment". European Economic Review, 136 (103764). [link]
Lawrence Choo, Veronika Grimm, Gergely. Horváth and Kohei. Nitta (2019). "Whistleblowing and diffusion of responsibility: An experiment". European Economic Review, 119, 287-301. [link]
Lawrence Choo, Todd R. Kaplan and Ro’i Zultan (2019). "Information aggregation in Arrow-Debreu markets: An experiment". Experimental Economics, 22 (3), 625-652. [link]
Lawrence Choo, Miguel Fonseca and Gareth D. Myles (2016). "Do students behave like real taxpayers in the lab? Evidence from a real effort tax compliance experiment". Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 124, 102-114. [link]