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ernestlai@um.edu.mo
Tel
+853 8822 9290
Office
Office Room 3036, Humanities and Social Sciences Building
University of Macau, E21B
Avenida da Universidade,Taipa, Macau, China
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Ernest Kong Wah LAI 賴港華
Associate Professor
Academic Qualifications
Ph.D. in Economics, 2009, University of Pittsburgh
Master of Economics, 2000, The University of Hong Kong
Bachelor of Business Administration in Economics, 1997, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Master of Economics, 2000, The University of Hong Kong
Bachelor of Business Administration in Economics, 1997, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Research Interests
Game Theory
Experimental Economics
Behavioral Economics
Industrial Organization
Experimental Economics
Behavioral Economics
Industrial Organization
Selected Publications
- “Shuffling as a Sales Tactic: An Experimental Study of Selling Product Rankings” (with Qichao Shi and James Dearden), Management Science, 71 (2025), 3944-3965.
- “Mediated Talk: An Experiment” (with Andreas Blume and Wooyoung Lim), Journal of Economic Theory, 208 (2023), 105593.
- “Strategic Information Transmission: A Survey of Experiments and Theoretical Foundations” (with Andreas Blume and Wooyoung Lim) in C. Monica Capra, Rachel Croson, Mary Rigdon, and Tanya Rosenblat (eds), Handbook of Experimental Game Theory, Cheltenham, UK/Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing (2020).
- “Confirmatory Bias in Health Decisions: Evidence from the MMR-Autism Controversy” (with Mengcen Qian and Shin-Yi Chou), Journal of Health Economics, 70 (2020), 102284.
- “Eliciting Private Information with Noise: The Case of Randomized Response” (with Andreas Blume and Wooyoung Lim), Games and Economic Behavior, 113 (2019), 356-380.
- “The Informational Theory of Legislative Committees: An Experimental Analysis” (with Marco Battaglini, Wooyoung Lim, and Joseph Tao-yi Wang), American Political Science Review, 113 (2019), 55-76.
- “Meaning and Credibility in Experimental Cheap-Talk Games” (with Wooyoung Lim), Quantitative Economics, 9 (2018), 1453-1487.
- “Expert Advice for Amateurs,” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 103 (2014), 1-16.