Education

  Degree          Institution                                           Field

  Bachelor        Peking University                              Economics, Mathematics and Applied Mathematics,

  Master           Chinese Academy of Sciences         Financial Management           

                        Tinbergen Institute (Netherlands)     Economics   

  PhD               University of Amsterdam                   Economics                                

Publication (in English)

  Houser, D. and Yang, Y. "Learning Language: An Experiment". Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. (forthcoming).

  Alempaki, D., Dogan, G., and Yang Yang. (2021). "Lying in a Foreign Language". Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.

  Yang, Y. (2019). "Is Ignorance Bliss?" Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 160, 68-82.

  Yang, Y., Onderstal, S., & Schram, A. (2016). "Inequity aversion revisited". Journal of economic psychology, 54, 1-16.

Working Paper (in english)

 "Cheaptalk Communication in Procurement", with S. Onderstal.

 "On Language and Meaning: A Randomized Experiment", with D. Houser.  

 "Arbitrage or Narrow Bracketing? On Using Money to Measure Intertemporal Preferences", with J. Andreoni, C. Gravert, A. Imas, M. Kuhn and S. Saccardo.

 "Understanding Intergroup Trust", with J. Lin and J. Xie.

 "A Goose Feather from a Thousand Miles Away: A Theory and Experiment on Reciprocity", with Y. He, J. Lien, and J. Zheng

Research Grants

  National Natural Science Foundation of China (general program), 2022-2024.

  National Natural Science Foundation of China (junior program), 2018-2020.

  Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (general program), 2022-2024.

  Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province, 2017-2020.

  Social Science Projects of Sun Yat-sen University,  2016-2018.

Teaching

  Behavioral and Experimental Economics (Undergraduate)

  Intermediate Microeconomics (Undergraduate)

  Advanced Microeconomics (PhD)