Lian Xue

Research

Covid Studies

 "Medical occupation preference under the Influence of the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of risk and altruistic preferences" with Edward Cartwright, Yiting Guo and Lijia Wei. Health Economics (2023)

"Intergeneration Preference Transmission in Physician Families: Evidence and Theory" with Lijia Wei and Yiting Guo. 

Public Economics

"Impulse balance and framing effects in threshold public good games." with Edward Cartwright and Anna Stepanova.  Journal of Public Economic Theory (2019)

"Norm Enforcement on Minorities: Empirical and Experimental Evidence from Traffic Violations" with Xiaoyang Deng, Tao Wang and Shuo Yang.

Theme: Public good game and Social Value Orientations (PGG & SVO)

Own SVO  "Public good contributions and private information on own social value orientation" with Edward Cartwright and Yidan Chai. R&R at Journal of Public Economic Theory

Network of SVO  "Information on Social Value Orientation and Contributions to a Public Good: Theory and Experimental Evidence" with Edward Cartwright and Yidan Chai.

Leader SVO  "Leadership in a social dilemma: Does it matter if the leader is pro-social or just says they are pro-social? " with Edward Cartwright and Yidan Chai R&R at Economic Inquiry  

Digital Economics

"Strategic Interactions with an Algorithm Assistant: The Power of Data and Mechanism" with Lu Bai, Lijia Wei and Zhengqing Gui.

"Endogenous AI-Tocracy" (NEW!) with Lijia Wei and Lu Bai.

"Organizational design and error propagation: Theory and Experiment" (NEW!) with Yves Breitmoser, Jiwei Zheng, and Daniel John Zizzo. 

Cyber-security and Cheating Behavior (EMPHASIS Project)

 "Truth-telling with a smartphone: The effect of communication media in strategic interactions" with Edward Cartwright. Frontiers in Behavioral Economics (2023)

"An investigation of individual willingness to pay ransomware." with Cartwright, Anna, Edward Cartwright, and Julio Hernandez-Castro. Journal of Financial Crime (2022)

"Are people willing to Tell Pareto White Lies? a review and new experimental evidence." with Cartwright, Edward, and Charlotte Brown. Games (2020)

"Investing in Prevention or Paying for Recovery - Attitudes to Cyber Risk." with Cartwright Anna, and Cartwright Edward. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (2019) 

Focal Point and Bargaining  (PhD thesis)

"Concord and contention in a dynamic unstructured bargaining experiment with costly conflict" with Theodore Turocy and Stefania Sitzia. Journal of Economic Psychology (2023)

“Mathematics self-confidence and the ‘prepayment effect’ in riskless choices” with Stefania Sitzia and Theodore Turocy. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2017)

"Bargaining over endowments produced by joint activity: Experimental evidence" with Theodore Turocy and Stefania Sitzia. R & R at the Economics Theory.

Teaching 

Lecturer, Spring Terms: 

• Behavioural and Experimental Economics; WHU Economics.

• Principles of Econometrics; WHU Economics.

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