Title: Professor

Email: jaimie@sdu.edu.cn

Current Appointment:
University Distinguished Professor, Center for Economic Research, Shandong University, February 2023 to present

Education:
Ph.D., Economics, University of California, San Diego, June 2010
Dissertation: Essays in Applied Behavioral Economics: Evidence from the Field
Advisors: Vincent P. Crawford and Julie Berry Cullen
M.A., Economics, University of California, San Diego, June 2005
B.A., Economics, Mathematics, Wellesley College, June 2001

Research Areas: 

Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, Microeconomics

Publications:

[31] “Confident in the Majority while the Majority Underutilize Confidence: The Practice of the Wisdom of Crowds”, with Yunwen He and Jie Zheng, forthcoming, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

[30] “Treasure or Leisure? Production Economies in a World of Social Comparison”, with Lang Gan, Zeng Lian and Jie Zheng - forthcoming, Open Economies Review

[29] “How Downward Comparisons Impact Pro-Environmental Consumption: Mediating Roles of Self-Evaluations and Self-Awareness”, with Yiwen Wang, Geying Liang, Jianwei Lin and Jie Zheng – forthcoming, International Journal of Psychology

[28] "We Want What They're Having: Cross-Country Endogenous Preferences in International Trade", with Wei He and Jie Zheng - forthcoming, Open Economies Review

[27] “Major Earthquake Experience and Presently-Gratifying Expenditures”, with Qingqing Peng and Jie Zheng – forthcoming, Economic Development and Cultural Change

[26] “‘They Never Had a Chance’: Unequal Opportunities and Fair Redistributions”, with Lu Dong and Lingbo Huang, Economic Journal, Vol. 135 (April 2025), p. 914 – 942.

[25] “How Alliances Form and Conflict Ensues”, with Lu Dong, Lingbo Huang and Jie Zheng,Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 146 (July 2024), p. 255 - 276.

[24] “Lump-sum Tax or Flat Income Tax? Welfare Implications of Taxation Policy in the Presence of Social Comparison”, with Shaoan Huang, Siqun Yang, and Jie Zheng, International Review of Economics and Finance, Vol. 92 (April 2024), p. 20-33.

[23] “Revisiting the Asymmetric Matching Pennies Contradiction in China”, with Ailin Leng, Zeng Lian, and Jie Zheng, Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 13 (September 2023), No. 9, 757.

[22] “To Acquire or Compete? Government Intervention in Transportation under Different Route Structures”, with Naqun Huang and Jie Zheng, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Vol. 172 (April 2023), 103033.

[21] “Online or Face-to-Face? Competition among MOOC and Regular Education Providers”, with Haipeng Han, Donald Lien and Jie Zheng, International Review of Economics and Finance, Vol. 80 (July 2022), p. 857 – 881.

[20] “Optimal Subsidies in the Competition between Private and State-Owned Enterprises”, with Mingzhi Li and Jie Zheng, International Review of Economics and Finance, Vol. 76 (November 2021), p. 1235 – 1244.

[19] “International Trade with Social Comparisons”, with Zeng Lian, Lin Lu and Jie Zheng, Review of International Economics, Vol. 29 (August 2021), p. 533 – 556.

[18] “Pricing Equilibrium of Transportation Systems with Behavioral Commuters”, with Vladimir V. Mazalov and Jie Zheng, Journal of Dynamics and Games, Vol. 7 (October 2020), No. 4, p. 335 – 350.

[17] “Flexible or Mandatory Retirement? Welfare Implications of Retirement Policies for a Population with Heterogeneous Health Conditions”, with Zhenhua Feng and Jie Zheng, International Review of Economics and Finance, Vol. 69 (September 2020), p. 1032 – 1055.

[16] “Information Sharing in a Contest Game with Group Identity”, with Weixing Ford, Zeng Lian and Jie Zheng, Economics Letters, Vol. 189 (April 2020), 109000.

[15] “Serial and Parallel Duopoly Competition in Two-part Transportation Routes”, with Zhonghong Kuang, Zeng Lian and Jie Zheng, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Vol. 133 (January 2020), 101821.

[14] “Riding to Wall Street: Determinants of Commute Time using Citibike”, with Weixing Ford, Vladimir V. Mazalov and Jie Zheng, International Journal of Logistics: Research and Applications, Vol. 22, No. 5 (September 2019), p. 473 – 490.

[13] “Endogenous Rewards Promote Cooperation”, with Chun-lei Yang, Boyu Zhang, Gary Charness and Cong Li, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 115, No. 40 (October 2018), p. 9968 – 9973.

[12] “Keeping up with the Neighbors: Social Interaction in a Production Economy”, with Zhenhua Feng and Jie Zheng, Mathematics, Vol. 6, No. 9 (September 2018): 162.

[11] “Competition between Virtual Operators in a Two-sided Telecommunication Market”, with Vladimir V. Mazalov, Yulia V. Chirkova and Jie Zheng, Automation and Remote Control, Vol. 79 (April 2018), p. 737-756.

[10] “Are Work Intensity and Healthy Eating Substitutes? Field Evidence on Food Choices under Varying Workloads”, with Jie Zheng, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 145 (January 2018), p. 370 – 401.

[9] “Ex-Ante Fairness in the Boston and Serial Dictatorship Mechanisms under Pre-exam and Post-exam Preference Submission”, with Jie Zheng and Xiaohan Zhong, Games and Economic Behavior, Special Issue in Honor of John O. Ledyard, Vol. 101 (January 2017), p. 98 – 120.

[8] “Wardrop Equilibrium for Networks with the BPR Latency Function”, with Vladimir V. Mazalov, Anna V. Melnik and Jie Zheng, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 9869: Discrete Optimization and Operations Research (Proceedings of the 9th International Conference, DOOR 2016), (2016) p. 37 – 49.

[7] “A Model of Capital Allocation, Education and Job Choice in China”, with Wei Wang and Jie Zheng, The Chinese Economy, Special Issue: Some Challenges to Economic Growth and Stability in China, Vol. 29, No. 5 (September 2016), p. 307 – 326.

[6] “Extortion Can Outperform Generosity in the Iterated Prisoners’ Dilemma”, with Zhijian Wang, Yanran Zhou, Jie Zheng and Bin Xu, Nature Communications, Vol. 7, No. 11125 (April 2016).

[5] “Preference Submission Timing in School Choice Matching: Testing Fairness and Efficiency in the Laboratory”, with Jie Zheng and Xiaohan Zhong, Experimental Economics, Vol. 19 (March 2016), Issue 1, p. 116 – 150.

[4] “Selling to Biased Believers: Strategies of Online Lottery Ticket Vendors”, with Jia Yuan, Economic Inquiry, Vol. 53 (July 2015), p. 1506 – 1521.

[3] “Deciding When to Quit: Reference-Dependence over Slot Machine Outcomes”, with Jie Zheng, American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 105 (May 2015), p. 366 – 370.

[2] “The Cross-sectional ‘Gambler’s Fallacy’: Set Representativeness in Lottery Number Choices”, with Jia Yuan, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 109 (January 2015), p. 163 – 172.

[1] “Staying Ahead and Getting Even: Risk Attitudes of Experienced Poker Players”, with David Eil, Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 87 (September 2014), p. 50 – 69.