Dr. Jiwei Zheng
I am employed as an Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in the Economics Department at Lancaster University Management School(LUMS).
My educational and professional background is in the area of behavioural and experimental economics. My area of specialisation and expertise include consumers bounded rationality and coordination/cooperation in strategic games.
Working Experience
08/2023 - present Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer)
Management School, Lancaster University
09/2020 - 07/2023 Assistant Professor (Lecturer)
Management School, Lancaster University
09/2016 - 08/2020 Senior Research Associate
School of Economics, University of East Anglia
07/2015 - 08/2016 Research Fellow
Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds
01/2014 - 07/2015 Research Associate
Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
Publications
Dai, Z., Zheng, J, & Zizzo, D.J. (2023). Theories of reasoning and focal point play with a non-student sample. China Economic Review, forthcoming.
Isoni, A., Sugden, R., & Zheng, J. (2023). Voluntary Interaction and the Principle of Mutual Benefit. Journal of Political Economy, 161, 1576-1616.
Rojo-Arjona, D., Sitzia, S., & Zheng, J (2022). Overcoming coordination failure in games with focal points: An experimental investigation. Games and Economic Behavior, 130, 505-523.
Grubiak, K., Isoni, A., Sugden, R., Wang, M., & Zheng, J (2022). Taking the New Year’s Resolution Test seriously: Eliciting individuals’ judgments about self-control and spontaneity. Behavioural Public Policy, 1-23.
Isoni, A., Sugden, R., & Zheng, J. (2022). Focal points in experimental bargaining games, chapter prepared for Emin Karagözoğlu and Kyle Hyndman, Bargaining: Current Research and Future Directions (Palgrave Macmillan).
Isoni, A., Sugden, R., & Zheng, J. (2020). The Pizza Night game: Conflict of interest and payoff inequality in tacit bargaining games with focal points. European Economic Review, 127, 103428.
Sitzia, S. & Zheng, J. (2019). Group Behaviour in Tacit Coordination Games with Focal Points. An Experimental Investigation. Games and Economic Behavior, 117, 461-478.
Sugden, R. & Zheng, J. (2018). Do consumers take advantage of common pricing standards? An experimental investigation. Management Science, 64(5), 2126-2143.
Sitzia, S., Zheng, J., & Zizzo, D.J. (2015). Inattentive consumers in markets for services. Theory and Decision, 79(2), 307-332.
Sugden, R., Zheng, J., & Zizzo, D.J. (2013). Not all anchors are created equal. Journal of Economic Psychology, 39, 21-31.
Whybrow, J., Zheng, J. (2012) Are we capable of being altruistic? (Featured article). Norwich Economic Papers, 5, 25-31.
Working papers and R&R papers
Brock, M., Murgia, L. M., Sitzia, S., & Zheng, J (2022). The Can Challenge: Understanding the best ways to incentive recycling through a diffusion approach. Working paper [Under Review].
Penczynski, S., Sitzia, S., Zheng, J. (2021). Decomposed Games, focal points, and the framing of collective and individual interests. Working paper [Under review]
Elmes, D., Read, D., & Zheng, J. (2015). Employees' misperceptions of the energy consumption in their workplace. A survey report for Honeywell Building Solution Team. [Project detail]
Work in Progress
1. Self-control or projection bias - an experimental study (with Andrea Isoni and Robert Sugden) – Manuscript under preparation [Funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, grant agreement No. 670103.]
2. Have you received the right message? Taking into account the errors of others (with Yves Breitmoser, Lian Xue, and Daniel Zizzo) – Manuscript under preparation
3. A boy named Sue - gender labels in tacit bargaining games with focal points. (with Andrea Isoni, Lian Xue and Shuo Yang) – Data analysis in progress [Funded by BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants]
4. Adopt player labels as focal points – an experimental study (with Andrea Isoni, Lian Xue and Shuo Yang) – Data collection in progress [Funded by BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants]
5. Compound games – framing effects in economic games (With Stefan Penczynski and Stefania Sitzia) – ESRC Research Grant application in progress
6. Procedure fairness and equal opportunity – an experimental investigation (with Stefania Sitzia and Mengjie Wang) – ESRC New Investigator Grant application in progress
7. Gain and losses in tacit bargaining games with focal points (with Andrea Isoni and Kei Tsutsui) – Experimental design in progress [Funded by LUMS Pump-Prime Funding 2022]
8. Deservedness in costless sharing (with Kevin Grubiak, Anders Poulsen, and Mengjie Wang) – Experimental design in progress
9. Voluntariness in coordination games with focal points (with Andrea Isoni, Jiawen Li, and Robert Sugden) – Experimental design in progress
10. Identifying Intentional Algorithmic Bias and its Effect on Model Behaviour (with Mohammed Al-Khalidi, Ali Alameer, Shantanu Banerjee, Manh Pham, and Peter Smyth) – [Funded by GCHQ through Northwest Partnership on Security and Trust]
Awards and Funding
2022 Northwest Partnership for Security and Trust Algorithmic Bias Funding (£40,006, co-investigator), “Identifying Intentional Algorithmic Bias and its Effect on Model Behaviour”
2020-2023 BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants (£9900, co-investigator), “The role of player labels as focal points in tacit bargaining games”
2022 Lancaster University Management School Dean's Award (Excellence in teaching)
2022 Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
2021 “Lancaster Pump Prime” funding (£3000, principal investigator)
2019 “Views from somewhere” workshop funding (£6000, main organiser)
2018 University of East Anglia School of Economics impact case funding (£4000)
2015 University of Warwick GRP funding (£1000)
2013 Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Science (CBESS) funding (£1000)