Title: Associate Professor      Nationality: UK

Email: kadergavin@swufe.edu.cn; gav.kader@outlook.com

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/gavinkader/home

Office: Room 307A, HongYuan Building, LiuLin Campus, SWUFE

Research Interests

Behavioural Economics (Behavioural Decision Theory, Applied Behavioural Economics), Revealed Preference Theory, Experimental Economics, Energy/Environmental Economics, AI & Economics (LLMs)

Education

PhD Economics, University College London        2019

MRes Economics (Distinction) & MPhil Economics, University College London        2015

Bsc Economics & MSc Economics, University College London        2012

Academic positions

Associate Professor, Southwestern University of Finance & Economics        2020-present

Assistant Professor, Southwestern University of Finance & Economics        2019-2020

Demonstration Lecturer, University College London        2016-2017

Teaching

Behavioural Economics, Experimental Economics, Experimetrics (Econometrics for Experimental Economics), Mathematics for Economists

Publications

· Yiyang Cheng, Shaofeng Ru, Gavin Kader (2023). "Optimal capital investment structure and sustainable development: Evidence from China." Finance Research Letters.

Working papers

· Consumer Theory for the Badly Behaved - Joint with Joshua Lanier (2025)

· The Emergence of Strategic Reasoning of Large Language Models (under review) - Joint with Dongwoo Lee (2025)

· Source Recursive Expected Utility and Process Preference on Rich Mixture Sets (under review) - Joint with Chew Soo Hong, Wang Wenqian (2024).

· Measuring Total Factor Productivity in China with Data Factor Inputs: A Non-Parametric Machine Learning-Based Stochastic Frontier Analysis – Joint with Yiyang Cheng (2025)

· The impact of climate policy uncertainty on corporate green innovation: Evidence from China (under review) - Joint with Fei Xue, Yiyang Cheng, Li Wang, Weixian Zhang (2025)

· From Certification to Sustainability: How Green Factories Improve Firm ESG Performance (under review) - Joint with Fei Xue, Yiyang Cheng, Li Wang, Hui Zhang (2025)

· Higher Education and Household Financial Asset Allocation: Evidence from China’s University Enrollment Expansion (under review) – Joint with Yiyang Cheng, Jiayi Zhang, Yongbin Liu (2025)

· Neuroeconomic Foundations of Familiarity Bias: An Integrated Analysis of Multi-dimensional EEG Indices and Risk Preference Parameters – Joint with Lei Peng and Mingkang Yuan (2025)

· Dynamic Multi-objective Optimization of Water-Energy-Food-Carbon Emission Nexus: A Case Study of Minjiang River Basin (Under review)– Joint with Lei Peng and Mingkang Yuan (2025)

· Optimizing Agricultural Water and Land Resource Allocation Under the Water-Energy-Food Nexus with Carbon Emissions considerations: A Bi-level Multi-Objective Programming Approach (Under review) – Joint with Lei Peng and Mingkang Yuan (2025)

· Gain and Loss - Intertemporal decision making in female drug addicts (2024) - Joint with Lei Peng.

· Motivational bias and cognitive disequilibrium in intertemporal decision making in drug-addicted individuals: evidence from the drift diffusion model (2024) - Joint with Lei Peng.

· Morning or Evening person? Circadian Mismatch and Intraday Timing of Experiments (2022) - Joint with Dongwoo Lee.

· (Ir)rational choices with Fear Of Missing Out (FOMO).

· Choices with Just-Noticeable Differences of Status Quo - Is There a (Noticeable) Difference?

· Cost of Consideration and Revealed Preference.

· An Alternative Measure of the Violations of Revealed Preference Theory - The Generalised Axiom Violations Index.