Research and Writings
Research and Writings
Job Market Paper: Costly Job Search with Inattentive Workers (Mismatch due to cognitive imprecision?)
Labour market mismatch can arise from workers having limited attention. This paper proposes a Generalized Partially Directed Search model, extending on existing literature by allowing inattentive workers to have diverse priors and heterogeneous attention costs. I show that mismatch can be inherited from bias in workers’ default search strategies, and heterogeneous attention costs could contribute to greater variability in the equilibrium outcomes. I also explore equilibrium multiplicity that was not adequately accounted for in previous studies. Equilibria where workers adopt different application strategies may generate both higher market efficiency and lower monopsony power than when workers employ the same application strategies. This information-theoretic approach to model job search offers new policy insights on the basis of attention.
Working Papers
Evolution of Labour Market Mismatch through Adaptive Learning with Experience (Do workers learn to coordinate?)
Strategic Interactions between Large Language Models-based Agents in Beauty Contests (How LLMs behave in competitive game?) [Lu, S. E. (2025). Game-theory behaviour of large language models: The case of Keynesian beauty contests. Economics and Business Review, 11(2), 119–148. https://doi.org/10.18559/ebr.2025.2.2182]
Status Signalling with Luxury and Cultural Goods (Books as signalling tool?)
Co-authored Project
Work in Progress
Predicting Behaviours Based on Strategic Communication - with Pedro González-Fernández and Helena Normann
Preliminary Ideas Previously Presented
Would Selective Recall from Past Experiences and Feedback Affect People’s Judgement of Their Ranking (idea presented at UEA Summer School)
Replication Game - with Peter Moffatt, Stefania Sitzia and Graciela Zevallos
Role of Noise in Information Disclosure: An Experimental Study (idea presented at ASFEE) - with Jiaying Li and Jun Shen
Other Non-academic Writings
Columnist, Life Section (Mandarin Chinese) [Link]
Edinburgh University Insight Magazine - The Evolution of Signalling, "Silver Linings" Edition, Autumn 2021, pp.8-9; The Rise of Inconspicuous Consumption, "Change" Edition, Spring 2019, pp.26-27