Huan Xie, PhD

Education

PhD in Economics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh

Fields of specialization

Experimental Economics, Game Theory, Public Economics.

Research interests

Applied Game Theory, Cooperation, Charitable Giving, Public Goods Provision, Experimental Finance

Professional experience

Professor, Concordia University, July 2025-current

Associate Professor, Concordia University, June 2016-June 2025

Assistant Professor, Concordia University, July 2008-May 2016

Selected Publications

“Favor Exchange with Private Costs: An Experiment,” with Arianna Degan and Yushen Li, October 2025, Games and Economic Behavior, 153, 94-112.

“Pricing Indefinitely Lived Assets: Experimental Evidence,” with John Duffy and Janet Hua Jiang, March 2024, Management Science, 70(12), 8772-8790.

“An Experimental Investigation of Persuasion through Selective Disclosure of Evidence,” with Arianna Degan and Ming Li, November 2023, Canadian Journal of Economics, 56(4),1490-1516.

“Hierarchy Leadership and Social Distance in Charitable Giving,” with Jipeng Zhang, 2019 October, Southern Economic Journal, 86 (2), 433-458.

“Why Do People Give? Testing Pure and Impure Altruism,” with Mark Ottoni-Wilhelm and Lise Vesterlund, 2017 November, American Economic Review, 107(11): 3617-33.

“Group Size and Cooperation among Strangers,” with John Duffy, 2016 June, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 126(A), 55–74.

“Social Norms, Information, and Trust among Strangers: Theory and Evidence,” John Duffy, Huan Xie, and Yong-Ju Lee, 2013, Economic Theory, 52(2), 669-708.

“Social Norms and Trust among Strangers,” Huan Xie and Yong-Ju Lee, 2012, Games and Economic Behavior, 76(2), 548-555.