Title: Associate Professor      Nationality: Singapore

Email: lawrence.cy.choo@gmail.com 

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/lawrence-choo

Office: Room 309A, HongYuan Building, LiuLin Campus, SWUFE

Research Interests

Behavioural Economics, Experimental Economics, Information Aggregation, Bounded Rationality, Industrial Organization

Education

PhD Economics, University of Exeter        11/2014 

Msc Economics & Experimental Economics, University of Exeter        10/2010 

Bsc Economics & Management, London School of Economics and Political Science (external study)        08/2009

Academic positions 

Associate Professor, Southwestern University of Finance & Economics        09/2020-present 

Post-Doc, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg       10/2014-08/2020 

Research Fellow, University of Haifa        11/2018-01/2020

Publications

• Mou Pengpeng, Lawrence Choo, Zhou Xiaoyu (2023). “Confucian Traditional Culture and Family Risk Financial Asset Allocation.” Finance and Economy (in Chinese).

• Geoffrey Castillo, Lawrence Choo, Veronika Grimm (2022). “Are groups always more dishonest than individuals? The case of salient negative externalities.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

• Lawrence Choo, Todd R. Kaplan, Ro’i Zultan (2022). “Manipulation and (mis)trust in prediction markets.” Management Science.

• Lawrence Choo, Xiaoyu Zhou (2022). “Can market competition reduce anomalous behaviour in games?” European Economic Review.

• Surajeet Charkravarty, Lawrence Choo, Miguel A. Fonseca, Todd R. Kaplan (2021). “Should regulators always be transparent? A bank run experiment.” European Economic Review.

• Lawrence Choo, Veronika Grimm, Gergely Horváth, Kohei Nitta (2019). “Whistleblowing and diffusion of responsibility: An experiment.” European Economic Review.

• Lawrence Choo, Todd R. Kaplan, Ro’i Zultan (2019). “Information aggregation in ArrowDebreu markets: An experiment.” Experimental Economics.

• Lawrence Choo, Miguel Fonseca, Gareth D. Myles (2016). “Do students behave like real taxpayers in the lab? Evidence from a real effort tax compliance experiment.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

Conferences and Workshops

• 2022. Virtual East Asia Experimental and Behavioral Economics Seminar Series, Nanyang Technological University, Shanghai Jiatong University, National University of Singapore; Singapore Economic Review Conference.

• 2021. World Economic Science Association Meeting (online); SAET Seoul (online).

• 2020. World Economic Science Association Meeting (online).

• 2019. Annual Congress of the European Economic Association (Manchester); European Eco[1]nomic Science Association Meeting (Djion); Bavarian Microday (Ulm).

• 2018. World Economic Science Association Meeting (Berlin); Experimental Finance Conference (Heidelberg); Theoretical and Experimental Macroeconomic Conference (Berlin); WZB (Berlin).

• 2017. International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Social Sciences (Barcelona); Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory Conference (Faro).

• 2016. World Economic Science Association Meeting (Jerusalem).

• 2015. Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory Conference (Cambridge); Experimental Finance Conference (Nijmegen).