Dr. Nilanjan ROY Department of Economics and Finance
Associate Professor

Address
9-255, Lau Ming Wai Academic Building, City University of Hong Kong

Phone
+852 34422659

Email
nilanroy@cityu.edu.hk

Personal Web
https://sites.google.com/site/econnr86/
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SSRN Web
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Research Areas Game Theory
Experimental Economics/Finance
Microeconomics
Asset Pricing


Qualifications PhD - HSS (California Institute of Technology)
MS - HSS (California Institute of Technology)
MS - Quantitative Economics (Indian Statistical Institute)
BSc - Economics (Presidency College)


Biography Dr. Nilanjan Roy received his Ph.D. in Social Science in 2013 from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, U.S.A. Prior to joining the City University of Hong Kong in 2015, he was an Assistant Professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore for two years. His main research/teaching interests include Microeconomics, Game Theory, Experimental Economics, and Experimental Finance. Dr. Roy's work has been published in the Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Theory,Journal of Finance, and Scientific Reports. His current research focuses on cooperation in dynamic networks, action revision in non-cooperative games, social trading in experimental asset markets, and trading in dark pools.


Faculty Positions PeriodDepartment - InstitutionPosition
7/2021 - Now Economics and Finance - City University of Hong Kong Associate Professor
8/2015 - 6/2021 Economics and Finance - City University of Hong Kong Assistant Professor
2013 - 2015 ESD - Singapore University of Technology and Design Assistant Professor


Awards Award TitleInstitution
2020 Vernon L. Smith Excellence Award in Experimental Finance Society for Experimental Finance
Best Paper Award Behavioral Finance and Capital Markets Conference, Centre for Applied Financial Studies, University of Adelaide


Teaching Areas Microeconomics

Game Theory



Research Grants PI: "Dynamic Interactions, Information Transmission, and Asset Prices: Experiments
Experiments on Information Sharing and Asset Price Dynamics
Experiments on Motives to Trade, Consumption Smoothing and Asset Price Bubbles
Information Exchange and Social Trading in Experimental Asset Markets
Experiments on Action Revision in Games
Experiments on Cooperation, Trust and Markets
The Evolution of Cooperation, Endogenous Partner Selection and Homophily in Social Networks
Start-Up Grant
https://scholar.google.com.sg/citations?user=q__YIJ8AAAAJ&hl=en" target="_blank">Google Scholar




Publications Journal Publications and Reviews Halim, Edward; Riyanto, Yohanes E.; Roy, Nilanjan / Sharing Idiosyncratic Risk Even Though Prices Are "Wrong". March 2022; In: Journal of Economic Theory. Vol. 200

Riyanto, Yohanes E.; Roy, Nilanjan / Path of intertemporal cooperation and limits to turn-taking behavior. September 2019; In: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. Vol. 165, pp. 21-36

Halim, Edward; Riyanto, Yohanes E.; Roy, Nilanjan / Costly Information Acquisition, Social Networks, and Asset Prices: Experimental Evidence. August 2019; In: Journal of Finance. Vol. 74, No. 4, pp. 1975-2010

Gallo, Edoardo; Riyanto, Yohanes E.; Teh, Tat-How; Roy, Nilanjan / Strong links promote the emergence of cooperative elites. July 2019; In: Scientific Reports. Vol. 9

Palfrey, Thomas; Rosenthal, Howard; Roy, Nilanjan / How cheap talk enhances efficiency in threshold public goods games. January 2017; In: Games and Economic Behavior. Vol. 101, pp. 234-259

Asparouhova, Elena; Bossaerts, Peter; Roy, Nilanjan; Zame, William / “Lucas” in the Laboratory. December 2016; In: Journal of Finance. Vol. 71, No. 6, pp. 2727-2780

Plott, Charles; Roy, Nilanjan; Tong, Baojia / Marshall and Walras, disequilibrium trades and the dynamics of equilibration in the continuous double auction market. October 2013; In: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. Vol. 94, pp. 190-205



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