Weiwei Weng

Associate Professor of Practice of Economics

Email: ww48@nyu.edu

Weiwei Weng is an Associate Professor of Practice of Economics at NYU Shanghai. Prior to this appointment, Professor Weng was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the School of Business at Hong Kong Baptist University. 

Research Interests

  • Applied Microeconomics
  • Market Design
  • Experimental Economics
  • Behavioral Economics

Select Publications

  • "Are Only-Children Difficult Team Members?" (with Fanzheng Yang), Applied Economics, 2021; at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00036846.2021.1923637.
  • "Be proactive or inactive: The effects of systematic job riskiness on effort investment." ( with Fanzheng Yang, Yujiao Shi), Managerial and Decision Economics, 41, 599-607, 2020; at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/mde.3123.
  • "Endogenous Preferential Treatment in Centralized Admissions" (with Y. Stephen Chiu), The RAND Journal of Economics: 40(2), 258-282, 2009
  • “The Impact of Social Identity on Trust in China: Experimental Evidence from Cross-Group Comparisons” (with Fanzheng Yang), Applied Economics, 46(16), 1855-1860, 2014
  • "Public Trust and Corruption Perception: Disaster Relief” (with Woo, C. K., Cheng, Y. S., Ho, S. T., & Horowitz, I), Applied Economics, 47(46), 4967-4981, 2015
  •  “A Win-Win Mechanism for Electricity Procurement by a Local Distribution Company” (with Woo, C. K., Horowitz, I., Kwok, G., Wan, S. K.). The Electricity Journal, 26(1), 27-35, 2013

Education

  • Ph.D., Economics
  • University of Hong Kong