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Rong Rong

Associate Professor of Resource Economics
Graduate Program Director

Experimental and Behavioral Economics
Applied Microeconomics (Environmental/Health)

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Email: rrong [at] umass [dot] edu

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Stockbridge Hall

80 Campus Center Way
Amherst, MA 01003
United States

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Publications

  • Zaiyan Wei, Xiao Mo, and Rong Rong, 2021, Network Size and Content Generation on Social Media Platforms, Production and Operations Management https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/poms.13328
  • Matthew Gnagey, Therese Grijalva and Rong Rong, 2020, Spousal Influence and Assortative Mating on Time Preferences, Review of Economics of the Household https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11150-019-09466-x
  • Rong Rong and Jared Barton, 2019, I'll Be There: A Natural Field Experiment on Keeping and Breaking Promises, with Jared Barton, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2019.03.004
  • Rong Rong, Therese Grijalva, Jayson Lusk and Douglas Shaw, 2019, Interpersonal Discounting, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11166-019-09297-2
  • Rong Rong, Therese Grijalva and Matthew Gnagey, 2018, "The Less You Discount, The More It Shows You Really Care": Interpersonal Discounting in Households, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016726811830204X
  • Matthew Gnagey, Therese Grijalva, and Rong Rong, 2018, Spousal Dictator Game: Household Economics and Other-regarding Preferences, Games http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4336/9/3/69/htm
  • Therese Grijalva, Jayson Lusk, Douglass Shaw, and Rong Rong, 2017, Convex Time Budgets and Individual Discount Rates in the Long Run, Environmental and Resource Economics https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10640-017-0149-0
  • Rong Rong, Daniel Houser and Yifan Dai, 2016, Money or Friends: Social Identity and Deception in Networks, European Economic Review http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001429211630068X
  • Rong Rong and Daniel Houser, 2016, Deception in Networks: A Laboratory Study, Journal of Public Economic Theory https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpet.12170
  • Rong Rong, and Daniel Houser, 2015, Growing Stars: A Laboratory Analysis of Network Formation, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167268115001997
  • Rong Rong and Daniel Houser, 2015, Exploring Network Behavior Using Cluster Analysis, New Perspectives on Internationalization and Competitiveness, edited by Eskil Ullberg, Springer https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-11979-3_10
  • Carlos Ramirez and Rong Rong, 2012, China Bashing: Does Trade Drive the 'Bad' News about China in the U.S.?, Review of International Economics, Vol. 20, Issue 2, pp. 350-363 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9396.2012.01026.x/abstract

Completed Papers

  • Crago, Christine and Rong Rong, Behavioral preferences and contract choice in the residential solar PV market, Submitted https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4088542
  • Rong Rong, Yifan Dai, and Aurora Genin, Shouts and Whispers: A Laboratory Analysis of Public Versus Private Communication in Networked Groups, Submitted https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3970868
  • Gao, Sherry and Rong Rong, A Study on the Casual Impact of Heterogeneous Health Beliefs on Vaccination Decisions, Submitted https://www.dropbox.com/s/qqq873cxlhdzg78/A%20Study%20on%20the%20Causal%20Impact%20of%20Heterogeneous%20Health%20Beliefs%20on%20Vaccination%20Decisions_SSRN.pdf?dl=0

Research in Progress:  

  • It Takes Two Hands to Clap: The Effects of Reputation and Search in Healthcare Markets, with Ming Ge, Christian Rojas, working paper upon request
  • Partial Asset Integration in Allocation of Payments Across Time: Revisiting Convex Time Budget Experiments, with Takao Kusakawa, Sherry Gao, and Tatsuyoshi Saijo, data collection completed
  • Thinking of Risk and Future: Behavioral Preferences and Vaccination Decisions, with Sherry Gao, data collection completed
  • Does Health Belief Accuracy Depends on the Inference Group?, with Sherry Gao, data collection completed
  • Behavioral Preferences and Solar Adoption Decisions, with Christine Crago and Dhiroj Koirala, grant funding received
  • When Gossiper Meets Revenger: An Experimental Study, with Ozlem Tonguc, experimental design stage

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