Li, King King 李景景
Email: likingking@gmail.com
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Experimental Economics, Behavioral Economics, Behavioral Finance
EDITORIAL POSITIONS
Associate Editor, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2020 – Present
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2020 – Present
Editorial Board Member, Frontiers in Behavioral Economics, 2022 – Present
Editorial Board Member: Applied Psychology: An International Review, 2023 – Present
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2024 – present, Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Finance, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong
2018 – 2024, Associate Professor, Shenzhen Audencia Financial Technology Institute, WeBank Institute of Financial Technology, Shenzhen University
2014 – 2018 Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong
2014 – 2018 Director, CityUHK Experimental Economics Laboratory (CEEL)
2012 – 2014 Assistant Professor, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
2009 – 2012 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute of Economics
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Economics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
BBA. Business Economics, City University of Hong Kong
General Course, London School of Economics and Political Science (Sponsored by Hong Kong Bank One Year Exchange Scholarship)
PUBLICATIONS
- To Go Electric or To Burn Coal? A Randomized Field Experiment of Informational Nudges
- Hanming Fang, King King Li, and Peiyao Shen
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2025, forthcoming
NBER Working paper W31841https://www.nber.org/papers/w31841
Media coverage: Vox China, Cato Institute Research Brief in Economic Policy
A Two-Step Guessing Game
King King Li and Kang Rong
Theory and Decision, 2024, Volume 97, pages 89–108.
- Confidence in China’s political system was linked to perception of Covid infection risk, Covid health threat, and attitudes toward dynamic Zero-Covid policy
- King King Li and Ying-yi Hong
Judgment and Decision Making, 2023, 18, E36.
- Covid-19 outbreak, ambiguity aversion, and macroeconomic expectations
- King King Li and Huang Bo
China Economic Quarterly International (经济学(季刊)国际版), 2023, Volume 3, Issue 2, 144-154.
- Real-life investors’ memory recall bias: A lab-in-the-field experiment
- King King Li and Kang Rong
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 2023, Volume 37, 100760.
微信公众号介绍: 投资者的记忆偏见:一个实地实验
- Social preferences before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in China
- King King Li, Ying-yi Hong, Bo Huang, and Tony Tam
Judgment and Decision Making, 2022, Vol. 17, No.6, November, pp.1313-1333.
- Memory Recall Bias of Overconfident and Underconfident Individuals after Feedback
- King King Li
Games, 2022, 13, no. 3: 41. (Special issue in Economics of Motivated Beliefs)
- Cash or Card? Impression Management and Restaurant Tipping Behavior
- Vikas Kakkar and King King Li
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2022, Volume 97, April,101837.
- The Gambling Effect of Final-Offer Arbitration in Bargaining
- King King Li and Rong Kang
Economic Theory, 2020, 69, 475-496.
- Real-time PM2.5 air pollution and social preferences: a large-scale behavioural game study using mobile apps in mainland China
- Ying-yi Hong, King King Li, Bo Huang, and Tony Tam
The Lancet Planetary Health, 2019, 3: S15.
- Private but not social information validity modulates social conformity bias
- Li Li, King King Li, Jian Li
Human Brain Mapping, 2019, Vol. 40, Issue 8, 2271-2555.
- Choices in the 11-20 Game: The Role of Risk Aversion
- King King Li and Kang Rong
Games, 2018, 9(3), 53.
- How Does Language Affect Decision-making in Social Interactions and Decision Biases?
- King King Li
Journal of Economic Psychology, Vol. 61, 15-28.
- Jury Voting without Objective Probability
- King King Li and Toru Suzuki
Social Choice and Welfare, 2016, 46(2), 389-406.
- Crowding Out in the Labor Market: A Prosocial Setting is Necessary
- Tanjim Hossain and King King Li
Management Science, 2014, 60(5), 1148-1160.
- Asymmetric Memory Recall of Positive and Negative Events in Social Interactions
- King King Li
- Experimental Economics, 2013, Vol. 16, Issue 3, 248-262.
- Preference towards Control in Risk Taking: Control, No Control, or Randomize?
- King King Li
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Vol. 43, No. 1, 39-63.
- Source Preference and Ambiguity Aversion: Models and Evidence from Behavioral and Neuroimaging Experiments
- Soo Hong Chew, King King Li, Robin Chark, and Songfa Zhong
- in Daniel Houser and Kevin McCabe (eds.), Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research, 2008, Vol. 20, Neuroeconomics, 179-210.
SELECTED WORKING PAPERS
1. “To Exercise or Not to Exercise: A Field Experiment of Informational Nudges” with Zeyu Zhang
2. “Women Role Model Reduces Gender Difference in Competitive Inclination: An Experimental Study with Chinese Children” with Zeyu Zhang, Xinyan Li
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4941293
3. “Unfounded Opinion’s Curse” with Toru Suzuki. Revise&Resubmit, Games and Economic Behavior
4. “The Hidden Costs of Choice in the Labor Market” with Pak Hung Au, Qing Zhang, Rong Zhu. IZA Discussion paper No. 16623.
https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/16623/the-hidden-costs-of-choice-in-the-labor-market
5. “Childbearing Age and the Shadow Mommy Effect on Hiring: A Large-Scale Field Experiment” with Shi Wei, Li Lunzheng, Xu Zhibo.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4199754
6. “Igniting Deliberation to Reduce Misperception: A Randomized Field Experiment” with Peiyao Shen, Andreas Hefti.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3797548
7. Matching Friction, Coordination and Monetary Nonneutrality” with Tao Zhu.
8. “Home Bias explained by familiarity, not ambiguity” with Chew Soo Hong and Jacob Sagi
9. “Source Preference, Belief Bias, and ESG Investment Preference” with Chew Soo Hong.
10. “A Simple Experiment on Simple Bayesian Persuasion” with Au Pak Hung and OSub Kwon, Revise&Resubmit, The Economic Journal
11. “Belief Bias, Source Preference, and Preference for Robo-Advisor” with Haomin He and Paul Cheung, Reject&Resubmit, Management Science
12. “Disclosure of Poverty Social Identity Reduces Effectiveness of Poverty Based Affirmative Action” with Qing Zhan