Research

Working Papers

1. Tucker, S. & Xu, Y. (2024). Motivations to speculate are the driving forces in experimental asset market bubbles , under review.

2. Neugebauer, T., & Xu, Y. (2023). Automated Market Maker vs Continuous Double Auction: An Asset Market Experiment.  

3. Fehr, D., Rau, H., Trautmann, S. T., Xu, Y.  & Becker, C. (2022). Fairness Properties of Compensation Schemes, under revision, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization.

4. Qiu, J.Q., Van de Kuilen, G., Weizel, U., Xu, Y. (2023), Irrational Beliefs Drive Disposition Effects: Evidence from Financial Professionals, under revision, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.

5. Czajkowski, M., Hanley, N., Lades, L., Noussair, C.N., Tucker, S., and Xu, Y. (2022). The Effects of Emotions on Stated Preferences for Environmental Change.

6. Freidoony, L.,Goodman-Palmer, D., Barker, F., Bärnighausen, T., Bountogo, M., Geldsetzer, P., Harling, L., Hirschhorn, J., Manne-Goehler, C., Payne, A., Sié, Siedner,M., Trautmann, S.T., Xu, Y., Withham, M., and Davies J. (2023). The Association between the Value of a Statistical Life and Frailty in Burkina Faso (manuscript available upon request), under review.

7. Xu, Y., Boksem, M., Noussair, C.N., Trautmann, S.T., van de Kuilen, G., Sanfey, A., (2022). Higher order risk preferences and economic decisions, under review.

8. Prüfer, J., & Xu, Y. (2021). The Nonprofit’s Dilemma.

 Publications

1. Lambrecht, M., Sofianos, A., & Xu, Y. (forthcoming). Does mining fuel bubbles? An experimental study on cryptocurrency markets, Management Science. 

2. Tucker, S. & Xu, Y. (2024). Nonspeculative Bubbles Revisited, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 42, 100925.

3. Fišar, M., Greiner, B., Huber, C., Katok, E., Ozkes, A., and the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration (2024). Reproducibility in Management Science. Management Science, 70(3), 1343-1356. 

Note: consortium authorship, this is a crowdsourcing project.

4. Noussair, C. N., Tucker, S., Xu, Y., & Breaban, A. (2024). The role of emotions in public goods games with and without punishment opportunities.  Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 217, 631–646. 

5. Trautmann, S. T., Wang, X. (S.), Wang, Y., & Xu, Y. (2023). High-status individuals are held to higher ethical standards, Scientific Reports, 13(1), 15111. [media coverage:  PsyPost].

6. Tucker, S. and Xu, Y. (2023). Fairness, (perception of) inequality, and redistribution preferences. Journal of Economic Surveys, 37 (5), 1529–1533.

7. Xu, Y. and Marandola, G. (2023). The (Negative) Effects of Inequality on Social Capital. Journal of Economic Surveys, 37 (5), 1562-1588.

8. Trautmann, S.T., Y. Xu, C. König-Kersting, B. N. Patenaude, G. Harling, A. Sié, and T. Bärnighausen (2021). Value of Statistical Life Year in extreme poverty: A randomized experiment of measurement methods in rural Burkina Faso. Population Health Metrics, 19(1), 1-18.

9. Marandola, G. and Xu, Y. (2021). (Mis-)perception of Inequality: Measures, determinants and consequences, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg,  EUR 30819 EN, ISBN 978-92-76-41246-5 (online). 

10. Fehr, D., Rau, H., Trautmann, S. T., and Xu, Y. (2020). Inequality, Fairness and Social Capital, European Economic Review, 169, 103566.

11. Potters, J., & Xu, Y. (2020). Social Information and Selfishness. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 177, 327–340. 

12. Kocher, M. G., Schindler, D., Trautmann, S. T., & Xu, Y. (2019). Risk, time pressure, and selection effects. Experimental Economics, 22(1), 216–246. [media coverage: Business Insider, Entrepreneur, and Medium US]

13. Xu, Y., Xu, X., & Tucker, S. (2018). Ambiguity attitudes in the loss domain: Decisions for self versus others. Economics Letters, 170, 100–103. 

14. Noussair, C. N., Tucker, S., & Xu, Y. (2016). Futures markets, cognitive ability, and mispricing in experimental asset markets. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 130, 166-179. 

15. Noussair, C., & Xu, Y. (2015). Information mirages and financial contagion in an asset market experiment. Journal of Economic Studies, 42(6), 1029-1055.