Project Description

Lawrence CHOO

Full-time Staff

Title Associate Professor of Economics          Experimental Laboratory Coordinator
Office Room 3030, Humanities and Social Sciences Building, University of Macau, E21B
Telephone +(853) 88224440
Website https://sites.google.com/view/lawrence- choo/home
Email lawrencechoo@um.edu.mo

Academic Qualifications

  • University of Exeter, PhD in Economics, 2014
  • University of Exeter, MSc. in Economics and Experimental Economics, 2010
  • London School of Economics and Political Science (External Study), BSc. in Economics and Management, 2009

Research Interests

  • Behavioural and Experimental Economics
  • Experimental Finance
  • Prediction Markets
  • Social Norms

Working Papers

  • Can auction select people by their level-k types? (with Todd R. Kaplan and Xiaoyu Zhou)
  • Are social norms universal? (with Geoffrey Castillo and Veronika Grimm)
  • Dangling a carrot: The effects of cheap talk in the voluntary contribution mechanism.(with Sara Le Roux)

Selected Publications

Geoffrey Castillo, Lawrence Choo and Veronika Grimm (2022). “Are groups always more dishonest than individuals? The case of salient negative externalities” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 198, 598–611. 

Lawrence Choo, Todd R. Kaplan and Ro’i Zultan (2022). “Manipulation and (mis)trust in prediction markets“. Management Science. 8(9), 6716-6732.

Lawrence Choo and Xiaoyu Zhou (2022). “Can market selection reduce anomalous behaviour in games?” European Economic Review, 2022 (103958).

Surajeet Chakravarty, Lawrence Choo, Todd R. Kaplan and Miguel A. Fonseca (2021). “Should regulators always be transparent? A bank run experiment“. European Economic Review, 136 (103764). 

Lawrence Choo, Veronika Grimm, Gergely. Horváth and Kohei. Nitta (2019). “Whistleblowing and diffusion of responsibility: An experiment“. European Economic Review, 119, 287-301. 

Lawrence Choo, Todd R. Kaplan and Ro’i Zultan (2019). “Information aggregation in Arrow-Debreu markets: An experiment“. Experimental Economics, 22 (3), 625-652. 

Lawrence Choo, Miguel Fonseca and 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 & Organization, 124, 102-114.