Weiwei Weng

Weiwei Weng
Associate Area Head of Economics, Professor of Practice in Economics, NYU Shanghai
Email
ww48@nyu.edu
Room
S819
Weiwei Weng is the Associate Area Head of Economics and a Professor of Practice in Economics at NYU Shanghai. Prior to this appointment, Weng was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the School of Business at Hong Kong Baptist University. At NYU Shanghai, Weiwei teaches both introductory and advanced courses in Economics, open to students from all backgrounds, and won the NYU Shanghai Teaching Excellence Award in academic year 2022-2023.

 

Select Publications

  • "Admission Quota Schemes and Regional Inequality." (with Fanzheng Yang), Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 115, 102349, 2025
  • "Are Only-Children Difficult Team Members?" (with Fanzheng Yang), Applied Economics, 53(47), 5462-5476, 2021
  • "Be proactive or inactive: The effects of systematic job riskiness on effort investment." ( with Fanzheng Yang, Yujiao Shi) Managerial and Decision Economics, 41, 599-607, 2020
  • "Public Trust and Corruption Perception: Disaster Relief” (with Woo, C. K., Cheng, Y. S., Ho, S. T., & Horowitz, I), Applied Economics, 47(46), 4967-4981, 2015
  • "Endogenous Preferential Treatment in Centralized Admissions" (with Y. Stephen Chiu), The RAND Journal of Economics: 40(2), 258-282, 2009

 

Education

  • PhD, Economics
    University of Hong Kong
  • MSc, Economics
    University of Hong Kong
Research Interests
Weiwei's research interests lie in employing game theoretic models as well as lab experiments and survey tools to understand the interplay between various factors, institutional, sociological and psychological, and peoples' economic decision makings. Her ongoing research mainly focuses on: a) matching and market design, with particular interest in college admissions problems; and b) beliefs and perceptions, with focus on experimental investigations to inform the design of managerial practices of organizations.
  • Applied Microeconomics
  • Market Design
  • Experimental Economics
  • Behavioral Economics
Courses Taught
  • Competitive Analysis
  • Microeconomics