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Tingyan Jia is joining the University of Leicester Business School as an Assistant Professor starting September 2023. Currently affiliated with Stanford University's Department of Economics, Jia's research focuses on pro-social behaviors, charitable giving, behavioral and experimental economics, and experimental finance. Their work explores empathy's role in redistribution decisions, motivated reasoning in economic choices, and the welfare implications of individual trading behaviors.
Research Interests:
- Empathy and Redistribution Mechanisms
- Motivated Reasoning in Economic Decisions
- Behavioral Finance and Experimental Methods
- Market Microstructure and Trading Dynamics
- Policy Evaluation and Happiness Reporting Biases
Teaching Experience: Served as a Teaching Assistant at Stanford University for courses in Behavioral Economics (Econ 178), Economic Development (Econ 125), Finance and Society (Finance 332), and China's Financial System (Finance 377). Student evaluations are available for review.
Publications: Notable works include foundational contributions to consumption-based asset pricing theory, analysis of central bank policy impacts on interest rates, and studies on market microstructure dynamics. Recent research examines the psychological underpinnings of economic decisions under uncertainty.
Labs/Teams: Collaborates with prominent economists including B. Douglas Bernheim, Muriel Niederle, and Matthew Jackson. Current projects investigate investor behavior in digital platforms and the limitations of self-reported happiness measures in policy analysis.
