Zhixin DAI
Ph.D Student
June 2013 GATE (Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique)
CNRS – Université de Lyon II Tel: +33 (0)472 86 60 37 93, Chemin des Mouilles Mobile: +33 (0)699 07 71 12 69130 Ecully (France) Fax: +33 (0)472 86 60 90 E-mail: dai@gate.cnrs.fr
Date of birth: 20 April 1985
Current position Member of GATE, CNRS, University of Lyon II.
Education
Sep 2011-2014: Ph.D student in Economics at GATE Lyon-St Etienne, University of Lyon II, Lyon, France
Thesis title: « Audit policies and intermittence of sanctions »
Advisor: Prof. Marie Claire Villeval, research professor, director of GATE July 14th 2013-August 9th 2013: International Max Planck Research School on Adapting Behavior in a Fundamental Uncertain World, IMPRS Summer School, University of JENA, JENA, Germany
Sep 2010-2011: Research Master/M2 GAEXA “Game Theory, Experiments and Applied Econometrics’’ University of Lyon II
Dissertation: «Intermittent sanction and the persistence of cooperation » (Rank: 2) Supervisor: Prof. Marie Claire Villeval, research professor, director of GATE Sep 2009-2010 : Master 1 Quantitative Economics and Econometrics , University of Lyon II
Dissertation: « Fairness or Money, A review of Dictator game and Ultimatum game» (note: 18/20)
Supervisor: Prof. Ferdinand VIEIDER, Researcher/Chercheur, chargé des recherche des CNRS
2008-2009 : French course at L’alliance Française de Lyon, niveau C2 (the highest level )
2004-2008: B.A. in economics, (4 years), University of Economics and Finance of ZhongNan (Project 211), Wuhan, China
Research Interests
Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Behavioral finance, Public
economics and political analysis, precisely, focus on incentives and learning process under a dynamic environment in the lab as well as in the field.
Work in progress
The intermittent of sanctions and cooperation in a public good game (2011), Revised as: Uncertainty on audits and cooperation in a public goods game with sanctions (2013) Submitted to Journal of Public Economics, with Hogarth, R.M., Villeval, M.C.
Reducing overreaction to central banks ‘disclosures: theory and experiment (2012), with Baeriswy,B., Cornand,C
Grants and Awards
2011-2014: Doctoral Grant, French Research Ministry.
2013-2014: Explora’doc , Rhône-Alpes regional Council, France.
Scholarship to fund the stay in University of Montréal, Canada
Supervisor: Pr. Claude Montmarquette, President and Chief Executive Officer and Vice-President Public Policies of CIRANO, Canada.
2012-2013: Aires Culturelles, Research ministry, France.
2006-2008: « Excellent member » of WENLAN GROUP 2006-2007: «Excellent student »(SHANHAO)
2005-2006 : Third grade of the 1st Paper Contest de “BOWEN” (For the top 1%) The title: The survey on the protection of farmers who lost their lands, evidence from three cites: TAIZHOU,XIAOSHAN,ZHUMADIAN
2005-2006: The award of the special contribution to the university
2005-2006: « Excellent organizer » in the Economics and management department of ZhongNan
2004-2005 : 3rd grade award (Pour le Top20%)
2004-2008: Several times the 3rd award in the Kung-fu competition of the province of Hubei (and one time 1st award on box BAJI en 2006)
2004-2008: Two times « The best debater » in the Economics and management department of ZhongNan
Publication
« The best fund manager in France: Christian Cambier» published by Modern financiers, in Chinese 08/2010
« Banque de Savoie: the service of approximation» published by Modern financiers, in Chinese 07/2010
Communication (Conference or Workshop)
《The intermittent of sanctions and cooperation in a public good game》 ESA, Economic Science Association, World meeting, June 2012, New York, USA.
AFSEE, Conference of the French Economic Association , May 2012, Montpellier, France.
11th journées Louis-André Gérard-Varet, June 2012, Marseille, France.
3rd BEE workshop with TSE(Toulouse school of economics), November, 2012, Toulouse, France.
Le 1st Lyon - Turin Economics and Management PhD Workshop, July, 2013, Ecully, France
Participant----AFSEE, 4th Conference of the French Economic Association , June 2013, Lyon, France.
Participant----The workshop EMIR ("Experiments on Motivation, Incentives, and Rationality") 25 and 26 March 2011, Lyon, France.
Participant----The 2th BEE Workshop (Behavioral and Experimental Economics). 9 and 10 May 2011 Lyon, France.
Participant---- The 2th Workshop SEBA-GATE (The Second Annual SEBA-GATE Workshop). 7 and 8 June 2011 Lyon, France.
Teaching
2012-2013: Mathematics, Graduate level (Bachelor of Economics) University of lumiere lyon 2, Lyon, France
2012-2013: Mathematics, Graduate level (Bachelor of Science) University of lumiere lyon 2, Lyon, France
2012-2013: Mathematics, Graduate level (Bachelor of Art) University of lumiere lyon 2, Lyon, France
Computer skills Office Software Applications (Microsoft Office, OpenOffice), STATA, z-Tree, Spss, R.
Administrative Role
2012-2014: Elected as PhD representative at the research center council (GATE) 2012-2014: PhD Representative for the GATE web
Memberships ESA(Economic Science Association)
AFSEE( French Experimental Economics Association)
Languages Chinese (Native), English (all skills), French (all skills)
