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 Theory, Journal 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
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Department - Institution |
Position |
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7/2021 - Now
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Economics and Finance -
City University of Hong Kong
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Associate Professor
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8/2015 - 6/2021
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Economics and Finance -
City University of Hong Kong
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Assistant Professor
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2013 - 2015
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ESD -
Singapore University of Technology and Design
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Assistant Professor
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Awards
| Award Title |
Institution |
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2020 Vernon L. Smith Excellence Award in Experimental Finance
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Society for Experimental Finance
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Best Paper Award
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Behavioral Finance and Capital Markets Conference, Centre for Applied Financial Studies, University of Adelaide
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Teaching Areas
- Microeconomics
- Game Theory
Research Grant
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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PI:
"Experiments on Cooperation, Trust and Markets",
Start-up Grant - City University of Hong Kong ,
Amount: HKD 300,000
(2016-2018)
, Nilanjan Roy
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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
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PI:
"Start-Up Grant",
Start-Up Grant - Singapore University of Technology and Design ,
Amount: SGD 100,000
(2013-2015)
, Nilanjan Roy
External Links
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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