Executive Director

Zheng Jiakun

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Zheng Jiakun

College: School of Finance and Finance

Title: Assistant Professor

Position (within the research center): Center cofounder (cofounder)

Office phone: 010-82500631

Email: jiakun.zheng@ruc.edu.cn




Research direction

Cost-benefit analysis with applications to health and environmental policies

Insurance)

Behavioral decision making)

Experimental economics

Published results

Zheng, J. (2020). Optimal insurance design under narrow framing. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 180, 596-607.

Zheng, J. (2021). Willingness to pay for reductions in health risks under anticipated regret. Journal of Health Economics, 78, 102476.

Chi, Y., Zheng, J., & Zhuang, S. (2022). S-shaped narrow framing, skewness and the demand for insurance. Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 105, 279-292.

Research subject

French National Research Agency International Cooperation Project (ANR, PRC), project name: BRISK (Behavioral determinants on individual preferences for reducing health risks ), project amount: 110,000 euros, project time: 2021.01–2023.07, collaborator: James Hammitt (Harvard, USA) University), Henrik Andersson (School of Economics, Toulouse, France), as Head of Abroad

Educational experience

Toulouse School of Economics, France, Ph.D. in Economics, 2020

Toulouse School of Economics, France, Advanced Postgraduate in Economics, 2015

Graduate student in Econometrics and Theoretical Economics, Toulouse School of Economics, France, 2014

University of Toulouse 1, France, Bachelor of Economics and Management, 2012