Jingnan Chen

Journal Publications

2025, "Promoting Cooperation in an Unequal World: Experimental Evidence on the Role of Transparency and Punishment", with John D’Attoma, Miguel A. Fonseca and Antoine Malézieu. Journal of Business Ethics, 202(4), 823–842.

2025, "The Conflict between Personal Interests and Group Interests during a Pandemic", with Di Mu and Todd Kaplan. Risk Analysis, 45(9), 2621–2649.

2023, "How Much Will Climate Change Reduce Productivity in a High-Technology Supply Chain? Evidence from Silicon Wafer Manufacturing", with Miguel A. Fonseca, Anthony Heyes, Jie Yang and Xiaohui Zhang. Environmental and Resource Economics, 86, 533–563.

2021, "When a Nudge Is (Not) Enough: Experiments on Social Information and Incentives", with Miguel Fonseca and Shaun Grimshaw. European Economic Review, 134, 103711.

2019, "When are women willing to lead? The effect of team gender composition and gendered tasks", with Daniel Houser, The Leadership Quarterly, 30(6), 101340. Runner up for Best paper in Leadership Quarterly 2019 - 2020. Interviewed by BBC Radio Devon, BBC Radio Scotland and BBC Southwest Evening News. Covered by Forbes, EurekAlert! and many others.

2019, "Broken Contracts and Hidden Partnerships: Theory and Experiment", with Daniel Houser, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 157, 754–774.

2017, "Promises and Lies: Can Observers Detect Deception in Written Messages", with Daniel Houser, Experimental Economics, 20(2), 396–419.

2016, "Beware of Popular Kids Bearing Gifts: A Framed Field Experiment", with Daniel Houser, Natalia Montinari and Marco Piovesan, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 132(A), 104–120.

2012, "Non-Human Primate Studies Inform the Foundation of Fair and Just Human Institutions", with Daniel Houser. Social Justice Research, 25(3), 277–297.

Working Papers

"Anticipation and Risk-Taking: Disentangling the Effects of Delayed Information and Payment", with Todd R. Kaplan and Pradeep Kumar.

"Making Contribution the Default: Gender, Merit, and Idea Sharing in Groups", with Shan Gui, Daniel Houser and Erte Xiao.

"Institutional Sources of Advantage and Selection into Competition", with Daniel Houser.

Book Chapers

2018, "Testing and Implementing Digital Tax Administration", with Gareth Myles and Shaun Grimshaw, Digital Revolution in Public Finance, The International Monetary Fund (IMF).

2015, "Ethics and Advances in Economic Science: The Role of Two Norms", with Angelina Christie and Daniel Houser, in George DeMartino and Deirdre McCloskey (Eds.), Handbook on Professional Economic Ethics: Views from the Economics Profession and Beyond, Oxford University Press.

Technical Report

"The effect of HMRC Taxpayer Assistance on compliance: An experimental investigation", prepared for the National Audit Office.

Works In Progress

“The effect of emotion on deception", with Miguel Fonseca, Shaun Grimshaw and Brit Grosskopf. (Data collection in Sep. 2017)

“The effect of team incentives on productivity: evidence from a large manufacturing company", with Miguel Fonseca and Jerry Yang. (Data collected)