Visiting Senior Fellow
Risk Management Institute, National University of Singapore
Research interests: Microeconomic Theory, Industrial Organization, Behavioral Economics and Finance
Email: zgui@nus.edu.sg Curriculum vitae
I am on the 2026/2027 job market.
Research on Game Theory and Mechanism Design
Supply Chain Frictions: Ironing with Returns, with Ying-Ju Chen, Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden, and Xiaojian Zhao, Revise and Resubmit, American Economic Review. [ssrn]
A Tale of Two Monopolies, with Yi-Chun Chen. [ssrn] [arxiv] [An extended abstract accepted by EC'25]
Slippery Protests and Information Aggregation, with Zizhen Ma. [ssrn]
Financial Contracting with Collateral and Costly Verification. [Preliminary Draft]
Financial Contracting for Agents with Correlated Cash Flows, with Lining Han and Xiaoxi Li. [ssrn]
Incentive-Compatibility, Limited Liability and Costly Liquidation in Financial Contracting, with Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden and Xiaojian Zhao, Games and Economic Behavior, November 2019. [ssrn]
Research on (Behavioral) IO and Finance
Taking Advice from AI: The Roles of Data Disclosure and Algorithm Transparency, with Lu Bai, Lijia Wei, and Lian Xue. Revise and Resubmit, Experimental Economics. [ssrn]
Consumer Learning in Digital Product Markets, with Xiaoxiao Hu. [ssrn]
Sequential Cognition and Product Flexibility, with Xiaoxiao Hu. [ssrn]
Fintech Market and Regulation: Lessons from China's Peer-to-Peer Lending Platforms, with Dingwei Gu and Yangguang Huang, Journal of Corporate Finance, March 2026. [ssrn]
Financial Fraud and Investor Awareness, with Yangguang Huang and Xiaojian Zhao, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, March 2024. [ssrn]
Whom to Educate? Financial Literacy and Investor Awareness, with Yangguang Huang and Xiaojian Zhao, China Economic Review, June 2021. [ssrn]
Teaching
National University of Singapore: Applied Microeconomic Analysis (UG), Corporate Financing and Risk (MFE).
Wuhan University: Game Theory and Information Economics (UG, MA), Industrial Economics (UG), Topics in Economic Theory (MA).
Employment
Visiting Senior Fellow, Risk Management Institute, National University of Singapore, from May 2022.
Assistant Professor, Economics and Management School, Wuhan University, July 2019-December 2022.
Education
Ph.D. (Economics), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2019.
M.Phil. (Economics), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2016.
B.A. (Economics) and B.S. (Statistics), Peking University, 2013.