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Li XuehengLecturer/Assistant Professor

Economics EMAIL: lixueheng@mail.cathaycentury.com
I currently serve as an Assistant Professor at Lingnan College, Sun Yat-sen University. I am an applied microeconomic theorist, with a focus on social and economic networks and behavioral game theory. I obtained Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Nottingham in 2018.My webpage: .

Research Interests

Social and economic networks, behavioral game theory, applied microeconomic theory.

Publications

1. Xueheng Li, Lucas Molleman, and Dennie van Dolder. "Do descriptive social norms drive peer punishment? Conditional punishment strategies and their impact on cooperation." Evolution and Human Behavior 42.5 (2021): 469-479. .

2. Xueheng Li. "Designing weighted and directed networks under complementarities." Games and Economic Behavior 140 (2023): 556-574. .

3. Siran Zhan, Liwen Zhang, Xueheng Li, and Yu Wu. "There's no going back? The influence of prior entrepreneurial experience timing on voluntary turnover in post-entrepreneurship wage employment." Personnel Psychology (2023),1–34. Advance online publication. .

Working Papers

1. Xueheng Li. "Indignation and the evolution of cooperation norms" (2024). R&R at Games and Economic Behavior

Funding

Grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China for Young Scholars. "Belief-dependent preferences and the evolution of social norms: stochastic stability in psychological games." 2023 - 2025.