I study economic decision-making and strategic interactions across diverse economic contexts by integrating econometric and structural approaches. I place particular emphasis on constructing and analyzing models that capture the underlying economic structure of a problem and lend themselves to rigorous quantitative analysis. I apply these methods to problems in industrial organization, quantitative marketing, and other areas of applied microeconomics, including health economics, drawing on tools from econometrics and applied microeconomic theory. My quantitative background is further strengthened by my training as a certified China Associate Actuary. I am currently based at the Department of Economics and Finance at City University of Hong Kong.

• Ph.D. in EconomicsPennsylvania State University, 2016
• M.A. in EconomicsPeking University, 2010
• B.A. in Economics & B.S. in StatisticsPeking University, 2007

• Teaching Consultant, City University of Hong KongAug. 2025 – Present
  Department of Economics and Finance
• Visiting Fellow, City University of Hong KongAug. 2024 – Jul. 2025
  Department of Economics and Finance
• Assistant Professor, Xiamen UniversitySep. 2016 – Aug. 2023
  School of Economics & Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics

• “Nonparametric Identification and Estimation of Double Auctions with Bargaining,” with Nianqing Liu. Econometric Theory, forthcoming.
• “Female Urinary Incontinence in China after 15 Years’ Efforts: Results from Large-Scale Nationwide Surveys,” with Jiming Zhu, Haiyu Pang, et al. Science Bulletin, 69(20), 3272–3282, 2024.
• “Money Versus Time: The Effects of Social Media Exclusion on Mental Construal and Donation Behaviors,” with Dajun Li and Nan Zhang. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 37(3), e2396, 2024.
• “Mental Health Professionals in China from 2017 to 2019: More Educated, Better Paid, but Less Satisfied,” with Lijun Shen, Jiming Zhu, et al. Asian Journal of Psychiatry, 96, 104015, 2024.   Extended version
• “The More Private Patients, the Fewer Public Patients? Evaluating the 2014 Hospitals Reform in Ireland,” with Eóin Flaherty, Xidong Guo, and Jiming Zhu. UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy, 2024.
• “The Association of State-level Drug and Opioid Overdose Deaths with the Capacity of Behavioural Health Professionals in the United States,” with Xinxin Han, Yi-Lang Tang, Judith Palfrey, and Jiming Zhu. Health and Social Care in the Community, 30(6), e4585–e4593, 2022.
• “China’s Macroeconomic Stability: An Empirical Study based on Survey Data,” with Chia-Shang J. Chu and Tianyi Wang. China Economic Journal, 4(1), 43–64, 2011.
• “Catastrophic Risk Management in China: Experience and Development.” Economic and Social Development, 7(11), 25–28, 2009. (in Chinese)
• “Empirical Study on Performance Evaluation of Property Insurance Companies in China,” with Jiazi Guo, Ting Han, and Yunbo Liu. Risk Management and Economic Safety: Viewpoint of Finance and Insurance Industries. Proceedings of CCISSR 2006 Conference, 62–82, 2006. (in Chinese)

• “Contract Incentives and Behaviours of Medical Consultants: Evidence from Population-Level Inpatient Records in Ireland,” with Xidong Guo, Eóin T. Flaherty, and Jiming Zhu (revise and resubmit to Nature Human Behaviour).
• “Offline Size and Online Scale: A Tale of Two Platforms,” with Kai Li (submitted).
• “Confucian Zhongyong and Sustainable Behaviors: A Moderated Mediation Model Based on the Construal Level Theory,” with Dajun Li, Liang Chen, and Nan Zhang (submitted).
• “Confucianism Still Matters: The Role of Zhongyong on the Passive Social Media Users’ Mental Health,” with Dajun Li and Nan Zhang (submitted).
• “Belief Error and Non-Bayesian Social Learning: Experimental Evidence,” with Boğaçhan Çelen and Sen Geng.   Supplement
• “Nonparametric Identification of k-Double Auctions using Price Data.”
• “Uniform Consistency of a Boundary Corrected Kernel Density Estimator.”

• “Semi-nonparametric Estimation of Double Auctions using Price Data.”
• “Costly Observation and Welfare in a Social Learning Environment.”
• “Group Membership Detection in High-Dimensional Panel Data.”
• “Improved Computational Method for Multidimensional Continuous-Choice Dynamic Problems.”

• 2022 — Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society in China
• 2019 — Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Monash/Xiamen Workshop on FEES
• 2018 — California Econometrics Conference
• 2017 — Shandong University, China Meeting of the Econometric Society, Annual Conference of International Association for Applied Econometrics
• 2016 — Lancaster University, Xiamen University
• 2015 — Midwest Econometrics Group, Canadian Econometric Study Group
• 2014 — European Meeting of the Econometric Society, University of Hong Kong, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Renmin University of China

Journal of Econometrics, China Finance Review International