Overview

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics 
Director of Economics Graduate Program 
Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Economic Growth
Education
  • Ph.D. in Economics George Mason University, 2016
  • M.A. in Economics George Mason University, 2012
  • B.S. in Finance Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2010

Brief Bio

Dr. Siyu Wang joined the department of economics in the fall of 2020. She is an applied microeconomist who works on bridging the gap between academic ideas and real-world problems. Her research approach relies on insights from experimental economics, in the tradition of Nobel laureate Vernon Smith, to investigate individual behavior, public choice, and managerial policies.

Research Interests

Experimental Economics, Behavioral Economics, Information Economics (Communication, Network, and Online Platform Design), Behavioral Political Economy, Law and Economics

Teaching

ECON 202 Principles of Microeconomics, ECON 231 Business Statistics, ECON 704 Behavioral Economics and Managerial Decisions, BADM 100 Exploring the World of Business 

Publications

"" (with Timothy Flannery) , Forthcoming at Southern Economic Journal  

"" (with Hui Xu) Volume 187, July 2021, 246-257 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 

"" (with Elias Lafi Khalil, Jason Aimone, Daniel Houser, Deborah Martinez and Kun Qian) Volume 182, February 2021, 229-247, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 

" " (with Timothy Flannery) Feb 2021, Games, on Special Issue "Experiments on Communication in Games" 

"" (with Cesar Martinelli and Mikhail Freer)  Volume 175, July 2020, 365-379, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 

"" (with Daniel Houser) Volume 115, May, 2019, 381-395,  Games and Economic Behavior 

"" (with Michael Makowsky) 2018, 147, 58-75, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 

"" (with Xiangdong Qin) 2015, 4(8), Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology and Economics 

"" (with Xiangdong Qin) 2013, 39, 1-10, Journal of Economic Psychology

Working Papers

鈥淚s It What You Say, or How You Say It?鈥 (with Xiangdong Qin and Zhiren Wu) 

"No Soliciting? Information Avoidance from Exogenous and Endogenous Sources" (with Delong Meng)

Who Do You Want to Talk to?  An Experimental Investigation of Network Formation under Strategic Information Transmission鈥 (with Delong Meng)  

"Gender Differences in Preferences For Criminal Justice Error Types: An Experiment" (with Hudja, Stanton, Jason Ralston, Jason Aimone, Lucas Rentschler, and Charles North)