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Huang, Wei 黃暐

BSc (Nanjing U); MSc, MPhil, PhD (HKUST)

Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor (by courtesy), Department of Economics

Contact

Department of Decisions, Operations and Technology

Room 922, 9/F
Cheng Yu Tung Building
12 Chak Cheung Street
Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong

weihuang@cuhk.edu.hk

+852 3943 9295

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Biography

Professor Wei Huang is an Assistant Professor of Economics at CUHK Business School, Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is a microeconomist specializing in behavioral and experimental economics, and behavioral contract theory. He is dedicated to exploring the economic insights of human behavior and cognition using microeconomic theory and experimental methodologies. His research works have been published in journals such as Journal of Political Economy, Management Science, European Economic Review, and Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, etc.

Teaching Areas

Microeconomics
Behavioral Economics
Economics for Business Studies

Research Interests

Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Behavioral Contract Theory
Applied Microeconomic Theory

Publications & Working Papers

Publications

Wei Huang, Yu Wang, and Xiaojian Zhao (2024), “Motivated Beliefs, Independence and Cooperation,” European Economic Review, 166C, 104748.
Soo Hong Chew, Wei Huang, and Xun Li (2021), “Does Haze Cloud Decision Making? A Natural Laboratory Experiment,” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 182, 132-161.
Soo Hong Chew, Wei Huang, and Xiaojian Zhao (2020), “Motivated False Memory,” Journal of Political Economy, 128(10), 3913-3939.
Fuhai Hong, Wei Huang, and Xiaojian Zhao (2019), “Sunk Cost As a Self-Management Device,” Management Science, 65(5), 2216-2230.

Selected Working Papers

Fuhai Hong and Wei Huang (2024), “Selling Self-Control.”
Fuhai Hong, Wei Huang, and Jubo Yan (2024), “Buying Self-Control.”
Zhongwen Chen, Wei Huang, Paul McIntosh, Irwyn Shepherd and Xiaojian Zhao (2024), “Fear on the Plank? Virtual but more Real!”
Soo Hong Chew, Wei Huang, and Xun Li, “A Colorful Mind.”
Xun Li, Wei Huang, Lei Chen, and Chen Zhu, “Policy Induced Sunk Cost Effect: Revisiting China’s Vehicle Quota System.”
Xiu Chen, Roberta Dessi, Wei Huang, Riccardo Pansini, Xiaojian Zhao, Xuejing Zuo (2024), “Status and Hierarchy: Field Evidence from Vervet Monkeys and Human Children,” Reject and Resubmit at Economic Journal.