Research

My areas of research include industrial organization with applications to competition policy as well as the foundations of human behavior and its connections to biases explored by behavioral economists. My research applies the tools of game theory, mechanism design and experimental economics to study contests, signaling games and models of behavioral decision making.

Working Papers

​​​"If you can, you must." Information, Utility and Loss Aversion (with Lionel Page)

Participation, Selection and Indicative Bidding in Auctions with Costly Entry (with Changxia Ke and Yang Liu)

Winning Ways: ​How Tournament Incentives Shape Risk Taking Decisions (with Dawei Fang, Changxia Ke, Yang Liu, Thomas Noe and Lionel Page)

​​Strategic Self-deception (with Claudio Mezzetti and Lionel Page)​

Sharing Cost Information in Dynamic Oligopoly (with Kyle Woodward) - Revision requested at AEJ:Micro
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​​Biased Contest Judges (with Zachary Breig)

Works in pRogress

Effects of Transparency in International Currency Transfers on Consumer Decision-making (with Guillem Riog and Santiago Sautua)
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The Impacts of Soft-Affirmative Action (with Hairong Hu and Changxia Ke)

Playing Dumb to Look Green? (with Claire Rimbaud and Alice Solda)

Publications

Momentum in contests and its underlying behavioral mechanisms (with Lionel Page and Hao Wan)
Economic Theory (2025) 79:301–340
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Two-Stage Contests with Private Information 
​American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (2023), 15(1): 239–287 
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​Self-deception in nonhuman animals: weak crayfish escalated aggression as if they were strong 
​(with Robbie Wilson and Michael Angilleta) Behavioral Ecology, Volume 30, Issue 5, Pages 1469-1476 (2019)

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