Huang, Wei（黃暐）
BSc (Nanjing U); MSc, MPhil, PhD (HKUST)
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor (by courtesy), Department of Economics
Cheng Yu Tung Building
12 Chak Cheung Street
Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong
+852 3943 9295
weihuang@cuhk.edu.hk
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.