Biography

Dr. Song got his bachelor degree in economics and finance from the University of Hong Kong and his Ph.D. in economics from University of California, Los Angeles. He joined the School of Management and Economics of CUHK (Shenzhen) in August 2016. His research interests include game theory and its applications, information economics and network economics.


Research

I am primarily interested in information transmission among rational Bayesian agents in networks and other economic institutions. My current research focuses on social learning and information transparency, as well as their applications in industrial organizations. Please see my working papers and work in progress for more details.

Awards and honors
  • 2022
  • 2019
  • 2018
  • 2017
  • 2014
  • 2011
  • 2010
  • 2008
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  • 01

    2022

    Major Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (participant, Grant No. 72192805)

  • 02

    2019

    Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (principal investigator, Grant No. 71803167)

  • 03

    2018

    Outstanding Paper in Finance by the Shenzhen Finance Association

  • 04

    2017

    Shenzhen Global Talent Award (“Peacock Program”)

  • 05

    2014

    Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA

  • 06

    2011

    Teaching Assistantship, UCLA, 2011 – 2014

  • 07

    2010

    First-Class Honors, University of Hong Kong

  • 08

    2008

    Dean’s Honors List, University of Hong Kong, 2008 – 2010

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Publications

1. "Cooperative Teaching and Learning of Actions",with Mofei Zhao,, (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-023-01497-x

2. "Equilibrium Social Activity during an Epidemic",with David McAdams and Dihan Zou,,207 (2023), 105591

3. "Global Manipulation with Local Obfuscation",with Fei Li and Mofei Zhao,,207 (2023), 105575

4. "Dynamic R&D Competition under Uncertainty and Strategic Disclosure",with Mofei Zhao,,181 (2021), 169-210

5. "Social Learning with Coordination Motives",with Jiahua Zhang,,123 (2020), 81-100

6. “Dynamic Network Formation with Foresighted Agents”,with Mihaela van der Schaar,,49(2) (2020), 345-384

7. “Repeated Network Games with Dominant Actions and Individual Rationality",with Mihaela van der Schaar,,6(4) (2019), 812-823

8. “The governance role of institutional investors in information disclosure: Evidence from institutional investors’ corporate visits”,with Yuchen Lin and Jinsong Tan,,8(3) (2017), 304-323

9. “Social Learning with Endogenous Observation”,Yangbo Song,,166 (11) (2016): 324-333

10. “Dynamic Network Formation with Incomplete Information”,with Mihaela van der Schaar,,59(2) (2015): 301-331

11. "Sharing in Networks of Strategic Agents",with Jie Xu and Mihaela van der Schaar,,,Special Issue on "Signal Processing for Social Networks" 8(4) (2014): 717-731

12. "Incentivizing Information Sharing in Networks",with Jie Xu and Mihaela van der Schaar,

13. "Incentive Design under Network-Based Peer Monitoring",with Zhuoran Lu,

14. "Viral Social Learning",with David McAdams,

15. "Social Learning among KOLs",,

16. "Competition with Information Ranking",with Jieshuang He,