Current research at MonLEE spans across a wide range of economic areas, including development, cooperation, charitable giving, price discrimination and leadership. Learn more about our researchers below.
| Researcher | Research Areas |
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Nick Feltovich 
| - Bargaining;
- Game theory;
- Price formation.
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Lata Gangadharan 
| Attitudes towards anti-social preferences: corruption, envy, bad norms; the impact of these kinds of preferences and design measures to alleviate them; Leadership; Gender; Designing mechanisms (incentives, markets, tournaments, for example) to improve environmental outcomes; Pro-social preferences: cooperation, charitable giving, inequality and mechanisms to understand their impact in society.
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Philip Grossman 
| - Charitable giving;
- Leadership;
- Gender.
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Andreas Leibbrandt 
| - Experimental research on the relationship between cooperation and competitiveness;
- The positive and negative impacts of affirmative action policies;
- Price discrimination.
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Vai-Lam Mui 
| - Theoretical and experimental work in behavioural economics and political economy;
- Identity and cooperation in the inter-group prisoner's dilemma;
- Individual versus group choices of repeated game strategies in social dilemmas;
- Network formation;
- Parental up-bring and ethic formation;
- Political economy of succession.
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Birendra Rai 
| - Other regarding preferences
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Erte Xiao 
| - Prosocial behavior such as reciprocity, trust, and inequality aversion;
- Designing incentive mechanisms to promote good behavior such as volunteering and healthy habits;
- Communication and signaling value of monetary incentives in enforcing cooperation;
- Social norms;
- Deception;
- Corruption;
- Leadership and gender.
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Xiaojian Zhao 
| - Contract theory
- Applied microeconomics
- Psychology and economics
- Experimental economics
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