EF hosts China Greater Bay Area Experimental Economics Workshop

The Global Research Unit of the Department of Economics and Finance, CityUHK Experimental Economics Lab, and Lab for Behavioral x Biological Economics and the Social Sciences of the National University of Singapore co-organised a conference titled “China Greater Bay Area Experimental Economics Workshop 2018” on 11th – 12th June 2018. The conference was supported by Hung Hing Ying and Leung Hau Ling Charitable Foundation.

A total of 22 speakers from world-renowned institutions and local universities presented their latest research on experimental economics with wide-ranging topics. 

Dr Li King King, coordinator of this workshop, and Professor Cheung Yin-Wong, Director of Global Research Unit and Hung Hing Ying Chair Professor of International Economics, gave their welcoming remarks on the workshop, respectively.

Topics covered in the conference include:

Day 1

• Motivated Memory in Dictator Games
• Bayesian Persuasion and Reciprocity: Theory and Experiment
• Wealth, Financial Literacy and Behavioral Biases: Evidence from Japan 
• Is Environment Pollution Necessary for Getting Rich? 
• Attainment of Future Carbon Sequestration via a Climate Game in the Chinese Collectivistic Society
• Lying for Efficiency or Fairness?
• Cash or Red Envelope: A Field Experiment on Work Incentives in China 
• Status and Trust in Representative Leaders: A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Rural Sarawak 
• Contextual Deliberation and Procedure-Dependent Preference Reversals
• A Heuristic Approach to Explore: Value of Perfect Information
• The Tradeoff Between Equity and Efficiency in the Organization of New Firms 

Day 2

• Reconsidering Risk Aversion 
• Multiple Switching and Data Quality in the Multiple Price List
• Deliberate Randomization in Choice List Elicitation of Risk Preference 
• Choice Set Depdendent Performance
• Putting Deliberate Randomization to Work 
• Hard to Get: The Scarcity of Women and the Competition for High-Income Men in Urban China 
• Identity in Public Goods Contribution
• Information Hoarding in Private Learning and Social Learning Settings: Experimental Evidence 
• Shame and Fame in Competition
• Disclosure in Contests with Endogenous Entry: An Experiment
• How I Learn to Love Being Dynamically Inconsistent

Presenters (in alphabetical order of surnames):

• Daniel Benjamin (Editorial Board Member, American Economic Review), University of Southern California
• Luke Boosey, Florida State University 
• Cangjian Cao, Tsinghua University 
• Chew Soo Hong (Fellow of Econometric Society), National University of Singapore 
• Andrew Ching (Associate Editor, Management Science; Editorial Board Member of Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing Research), University of Toronto 
• Chung Kim-Sau (Associate Editor, Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design), Hong Kong Baptist University 
• Sen Geng, Xiamen University 
• Guo Liang (Associate Editor, Management Science, Quantitative Marketing and Economics; Editorial Board Member of Marketing Science, International Journal of Research in Marketing), The Chinese University of Hong Kong 
• Fuhai Hong, Lingnan University 
• Ying-Yi Hong (Editor, Advances in Culture and Psychology; Series Editor, Frontiers in Cultural Psychology), The Chinese University of Hong Kong 
• Tanjim Hossain (Associate Editor, Management Science), University of Toronto 
• Vikas Kakkar, City University of Hong Kong 
• Li King King, City University of Hong Kong 
• Jaimie Lien, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 
• Wooyoung Lim, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 
• David Ong, Peking University HSBC Business School
• Riccardo Pansino, Kunming Institute of Zoology
• Abhijit Ramalingam, University of East Anglia
• Toru Suzuki, University of Technology Sydney
• Marie Claire Villeval (Editor, Experimental Economics), CNRS & University of Lyon
• Jane Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• Zhong Songfa, National University of Singapore 

To learn more about the Conference, please visit the website