Huanren Zhang

I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Southern Denmark. I am a behavioral economist who uses experiments, game theory, computational models, and empirical analysis to understand human and organizational behaviors. Recurring themes in my research include social preferences, social dilemmas, coordination problems, human and organizational learning, and risky decision-making.

Publications

Zhang, H., Hu, Y., Shi, X., & Gao, Y. (2022). When and how do innovation ecosystems outperform integrated organizations? Industrial Management & Data Systems,122(9), 2091-2120.

Gao, Y., Hu, Y., Liu, X., & Zhang, H. (2021). Can Public R&D Subsidy Facilitate Firms' Exploratory Innovation? Research Policy, 50(4), 104221.

Sun, Q., Polman, E., & Zhang, H. (2021). On prospect theory, making choices for others, and the affective psychology of risk. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 96,104177.

Hu, Y., Zhang, H., & Gao, Y. (2021). In Search of Optimal Distinctiveness: Balancing Conformity and Differentiation via Organizational Learning. Management and Organization Review. 17(4), 690-725

Sun, Q., Lu, J., Zhang, H., & Liu, Y. (2021). Social distance reduces the biases of overweighting small probabilities and underweighting large probabilities. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 47(8) 1309–1324.

Hu, Y., Zhang, H., & Yang, P. (2020). Resilience under Weiji: The Evidence from Chinese Listed Companies. Management and Organization Review, 16(4), 761-768.

Zhang, H. (2019). Common fate motivates cooperation: The influence of risks on contribution to public goods. Journal of Economic Psychology, 70, 12-21.

Sun, Q., Zhang, H., Zhang, J., & Zhang, X. (2018). Why can’t we accurately predict others’ decisions? Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 2190.

Zhang, H. (2018). Errors can increase cooperation in finite populations. Games and Economic Behavior, 107, 203–219.

Sun, Q., Zhang, H., Sai, L., & Hu, F. (2018). Self-distancing reduces the bias in probability weighting. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 611.

Sun, Q., Liu, Y., Zhang, H., & Lu, J. (2017). Increased social distance makes people more risk neutral. The Journal of social psychology, 157(4), 502-512.

Zhang, H., & Perc, M. (2016). Evolution of conditional cooperation under multilevel selection. Nature: Scientific Reports, 6

Working Papers

Gao, Y., Hu, Y., Liu, X., & Zhang, H. (2021). Propensity Score Matching for Multiple Treatments using Generalized Boosted Models. Available at SSRN.

Hu, Y., Zhang, H. & Gao, Y. (2021). Coordination, Complementarity, and Innovativeness in Rugged Innovation Ecosystems. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2021(1), 15265.

Hu, Y., & Zhang, H. (2020). Value creation and value appropriation in strategic partnerships. Academy of Management Proceedings 2020(1),118116.

Hu, Y., Zhang, H. & Gao, Y. (2020). Exploitation and Exploration in the Presence of Interorganizational Information Sharing. Academy of Management Proceedings 2020(1),13707.

Zhang, H. (2021).Voluntary participation and the evolution of egalitarianism in repeated coordination games.

Romero, J., & Zhang, H. (2020). Normative conflict and history dependence in repeated coordination games.

Work in Progress

Describing and understanding the long run in repeated games (with Christos A. Ioannou, Laurent Mathevet, and Julian Romero)

Cooperation under the shadow of inequality (with James Bland, Olivier Bochet, and Nikos Nikiforakis)

Evolution of cooperative norms in noisy repeated prisoner’s dilemma (with Tim Cason and Vai-Lam Mui)

Building cooperation under the shadow of inequality with gradualism (with James Bland, Olivier Bochet, and Nikos Nikiforakis)

Social preferences and distributional preferences: measurement, determinants, and behavioral consequences

Just Luck: How Luck-Induced Inequalities Influence Cooperation in Repeated Games