Associate Professor in Economics · XJTLU
I study how people compete, cooperate and distribute resources, and how incentives, information and institutional rules shape their behaviour.
My main research interests are organisational and personnel economics, public economics, and social preferences. I use experimental methods to study decisions in organisations, cooperation and redistribution, and trust in people and AI advisers.
I am based in the Department of Economics at Xi’an Jiaotong–Liverpool University in Suzhou. I also hold honorary appointments at Middlesex University and the University of Liverpool, and serve on the editorial board of Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.
More about my workRecent publications
Theory and Decision
Competition for positions is modelled through bidding, allowing gender differences in competitiveness to be studied without a real-effort task.
Experimental Economics, 28, 513–535
A laboratory study of dishonest collaboration when partners also have incentives to betray one another.
Public Choice, 205, 219–235
An experiment on charitable giving when an efficient donation can be mistaken for self-interest.
Research in the news
August 2026
Our study examines gender differences in competition for positions using a bidding task rather than a real-effort task.
Read the XJTLU featureMy collaborations include an experimental study of AI investment advice with CONSOB, Italy’s securities-market regulator, and reports on impact evaluation for anticipatory humanitarian action with START Network and the MEAL practitioners group.
Studies and reports