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Prof. Nilanjan ROY

Associate Professor

Address
9-255, Lau Ming Wai Academic Building, City University of Hong Kong
Phone
+852 34422659
Public CV

Research Areas

Game Theory
Experimental Economics/Finance
Microeconomics
Asset Pricing

Qualifications

PhD - HSS (California Institute of Technology)
MS - HSS (California Institute of Technology)
MS - Quantitative Economics (Indian Statistical Institute)
BSc - Economics (Presidency College)

Biography

Dr. Nilanjan Roy received his Ph.D. in Social Science in 2013 from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, U.S.A. Prior to joining the City University of Hong Kong in 2015, he was an Assistant Professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore for two years. His main research/teaching interests include Microeconomics, Game Theory, Experimental Economics, and Experimental Finance. Dr. Roy's work has been published in the Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic TheoryJournal of Finance, and Scientific Reports. His current research focuses on cooperation in dynamic networks, action revision in non-cooperative games, social trading in experimental asset markets, and trading in dark pools.

Faculty Positions

PeriodDepartment - InstitutionPosition
7/2021 - NowEconomics and Finance - City University of Hong KongAssociate Professor
8/2015 - 6/2021Economics and Finance - City University of Hong KongAssistant Professor
2013 - 2015ESD - Singapore University of Technology and DesignAssistant Professor

Awards

Award TitleInstitution
2020 Vernon L. Smith Excellence Award in Experimental Finance Society for Experimental Finance
Best Paper AwardBehavioral Finance and Capital Markets Conference, Centre for Applied Financial Studies, University of Adelaide

Teaching Areas

Microeconomics

Game Theory

Research Grants

PI: "Dynamic Interactions, Information Transmission, and Asset Prices: Experiments", General Research Fund (GRF) - Research Grants Council (RGC), Amount: HKD 327,993 (2021-2024), Nilanjan Roy, Yohanes E. Riyanto

PI: "Experiments on Information Sharing and Asset Price Dynamics", Strategic Research Grant - City University of Hong Kong, Amount: HKD 100,000 (2020-2022), Nilanjan Roy, Yohanes E. Riyanto

PI: "Experiments on Motives to Trade, Consumption Smoothing and Asset Price Bubbles", General Research Fund (GRF) - Research Grants Council (RGC) , Amount: HKD 336,322 (2019-2022), Nilanjan Roy, Yohanes E. Riyanto

PI: "Information Exchange and Social Trading in Experimental Asset Markets", General Research Fund (GRF) - Research Grants Council (RGC), Amount: HKD 353,520 (2018-2021), Nilanjan Roy, Yohanes E. Riyanto

PI: "Experiments on Action Revision in Games", Strategic Research Grant - City University of Hong Kong, Amount: HKD 100,000 (2017-2019), Nilanjan Roy, Yohanes E. Riyanto

PI: "Experiments on Cooperation, Trust and Markets", Start-up Grant - City University of Hong Kong, Amount: HKD 300,000 (2016-2018), Nilanjan Roy

co-PI: "The Evolution of Cooperation, Endogenous Partner Selection and Homophily in Social Networks", AcRF Tier-2 - Ministry of Education, Singapore, Amount: SGD 248,985 (2015-2018), Nilanjan Roy, Yohanes E. Riyanto, Edoardo Gallo

PI: "Start-Up Grant", Start-Up Grant - Singapore University of Technology and Design, Amount: SGD 100,000 (2013-2015), Nilanjan Roy

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Publications

Journal Publications and Reviews

Roy, Nilanjan / Fostering Collusion Through Action Revision in Duopolies. March 2023; In: Journal of Economic Theory. Vol. 208

Gallo, Edoardo; Riyanto, Yohanes E.; Roy, Nilanjan; Teh, Tat-How / Cooperation and punishment mechanisms in uncertain and dynamic social networks. July 2022; In: Games and Economic Behavior. Vol. 134, pp. 75-103

Halim, Edward; Riyanto, Yohanes E.; Roy, Nilanjan / Sharing Idiosyncratic Risk Even Though Prices Are "Wrong". March 2022; In: Journal of Economic Theory. Vol. 200

Riyanto, Yohanes E.; Roy, Nilanjan / Path of intertemporal cooperation and limits to turn-taking behavior. September 2019; In: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. Vol. 165, pp. 21-36

Halim, Edward; Riyanto, Yohanes E.; Roy, Nilanjan / Costly Information Acquisition, Social Networks, and Asset Prices: Experimental Evidence. August 2019; In: Journal of Finance. Vol. 74, No. 4, pp. 1975-2010

Gallo, Edoardo; Riyanto, Yohanes E.; Teh, Tat-How; Roy, Nilanjan / Strong links promote the emergence of cooperative elites. July 2019; In: Scientific Reports. Vol. 9

Palfrey, Thomas; Rosenthal, Howard; Roy, Nilanjan / How cheap talk enhances efficiency in threshold public goods games. January 2017; In: Games and Economic Behavior. Vol. 101, pp. 234-259

Asparouhova, Elena; Bossaerts, Peter; Roy, Nilanjan; Zame, William / “Lucas” in the Laboratory. December 2016; In: Journal of Finance. Vol. 71, No. 6, pp. 2727-2780

Plott, Charles; Roy, Nilanjan; Tong, Baojia / Marshall and Walras, disequilibrium trades and the dynamics of equilibration in the continuous double auction market. October 2013; In: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. Vol. 94, pp. 190-205

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