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Career Incentives for Civil Servant: A RCT Design
The proposed research investigates career incentives in the governance system in a randomized control trial. We partner with a provincial government in China to test how alternative performance evaluation schemes affect the performances of College Graduates Village Officials (CGVOs). Proposed schemes range from the ...
https://iems.ust.hk/research/project/2017/career-incentives-for-civil-servant-a-rct-design-guojun-he-working-paper
Fighting Financial Frauds by Eye-opening Education Program
Financial fraud is a prevailing issue in developing countries. We study how investors are exploited by too-high-to-be-true financial products using a model in which a fraction of investors is unaware of the possibility of financial fraud. Unaware investors purchase financial products that are inconsistent with their ...
https://iems.ust.hk/research/project/2017/huang-zhao-fighting-financial-frauds-eye-opening-education
Signaling happiness on social media: cross-cultural comparison.
People across countries vary significantly in their reported happiness levels. However, experienced happiness can sometimes be inconsistent with signaled happiness, thus making the drivers of signaled happiness an important issue to investigate. We explore when and why people signal happiness, how they signal ...
https://iems.ust.hk/research/project/2017/dalton-signalling-happiness-social-media
Effortless Elegance: Upwardly Mobile Consumers in the Emerging Markets.
This project aims to examine the consumer behavior in emerging markets through the lens of consumers’ upwardly mobile experiences in the macro-societal economic reform. Using multiple research methods, we collect qualitative data in field trips and in-depth interviews to understand how consumers’ upward ...
https://iems.ust.hk/research/project/2017/effortless-elegance-upwardly-mobile-consumers-in-the-emerging-markets
Effortless Elegance: Upwardly Mobile Consumers in the Emerging Markets.
This project aims to examine the consumer behavior in emerging markets through the lens of consumers’ upwardly mobile experiences in the macro-societal economic reform. Using multiple research methods, we collect qualitative data in field trips and in-depth interviews to understand how consumers’ upward ...
https://iems.ust.hk/research/project/2017/effortless-elegance-upwardly-mobile-consumers-in-the-emerging-markets
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