CONTACT INFO

Office Address:Ye Li
Columbia Business School
3022 Broadway, Uris Hall 310G
New York, NY 10027
Email:
Web Page:    http://yeli.us
Phone:212.854.3698
Born:China
Citizenship:USA


POSITIONS

Postdoctoral Research Scholar                                    2009 - Current
Center for Decision Sciences, Columbia University.


EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO BOOTH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
MBA, PhD. Managerial and Organizational Behavior, 2009
Focuses: Behavioral Economics, Judgment and Decision Making


CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
BS, Cum Laude. Business,Economics and Management, 2004
BS, Cum Laude. Engineering and Applied Science, 2004


PUBLICATIONS

- Li, Ye and Nicholas Epley. (2009). "When the best appears to be saved for last: Serial position effects on choice." Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 22(4), 378-389.

- Li, Ye and Claus O. Wilke. (2004). Digital evolution in time-dependent landscapes. Artificial Life, 12(2), 123-134.


PAPERS UNDER REVIEW & WORKING PAPERS

- Zhang, Yan, Ye Li and Ting Zhu. "How multiple anchors affect judgment: Evidence from the lab and eBay." Under review at Journal of Marketing Research.

- Li, Ye, Eric J. Johnson and Lisa Zaval. “Local Warming: Daily Temperature Deviation Affects Beliefs and Concern about Climate Change?” Under review at Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

- Li, Ye, Cade Massey and George Wu. "Learning to detect change." In preperation for Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.

- Li, Ye and Reid Hastie. "Perspective-taking in games." In preparation for Games and Economic Behavior.

- Li, Ye, Daniel M. Bartels and George Wu. "A pairwise-comparison model of intuitive probabilistic inference." Working paper.

- Li, Ye. "Responsibility toward others and its effects on motivation." Working paper.


RESEARCH IN PROGRESS

- "Wiser or worse off? Do Decisions Improve with Age?" (with Martine Baldassi, Jing Qian, Eric J. Johnson, and Elke U. Weber)

- "Why do consumers rate products and do the ratings matter?"


CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

- "Responsibility toward others and its effects on motivation." Poster presented at the Behavioral Decision Research in Management Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, June 2010

- "A pairwise contrast model of intuitive probabilistic inference." Talk presented at the Society of Judgment and Decision Making Conference, Chicago, IL, November 2009

- "How multiple anchors affect judgment: Evidence from the lab and eBay." Talk presented by coauthor Yan Zhang at the Association for Consumer Research Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, October 2009

- "Learning to detect change." Talk presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, August 2009

- "A pairwise contrast model of intuitive probabilistic inference." Talk presented at the Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, May 2009

- "How multiple anchors affect judgment: Evidence from the lab and eBay." Talk presented at the Society of Judgment and Decision Making Conference, Chicago, IL, November 2008

- "How multiple anchors affect judgment: Evidence from the lab and eBay." Talk presented at the INFORMS Marketing Science Conference, Vancouver, Canada, June 2008

- "Strategic perspective-taking: When wearing others’ shoes lets you walk more steps." Talk presented at the Behavioral Decision Research in Management Conference, San Diego, CA, April 2008

- "Strategic perspective-taking: When wearing others’ shoes makes you smarter." Poster presented at the Society of Judgment and Decision Making Conference, Long Beach, CA, November 2007

- "Detecting change in markets." Talk presented at Asia-Pacific Meeting of the Economic Science Association, Shanghai, China, August 2007

- "When the best is saved for last: Serial position effects on choice." Talk presented at the Society of Judgment and Decision Making Conference, Houston, TX, November 2006

- "When the best is saved for last: Serial position effects on choice." Poster presented at the Behavioral Decision Research in Management Conference, Santa Monica, CA, June 2006


GRANTS, AWARDS AND HONORS

- Katherine Dusak Miller PhD Fellowship 2008-09

- Hillel Einhorn Memerial Fellowship 2007-2009

- Dean’s Commendation for Teaching Excellence 2007

- University of Chicago Summer Research Grant 2005

- University of Chicago Graduate School of Business Fellowship 2004-2009

- Caltech Carnation Merit Scholarship 2003-2004

- Arnold O. Beckman Scholarship 2002

- Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship 2001-2004

- SBC Scholarship 2001-2004

- National Merit Scholarship 2001-2002

- National Alliance for Excellence Scholarship 2001-2002

- Valedictorian, Class of 2001, Adlai E. Stevenson High School


AD-HOC REFEREE

- Experimental Economics

- Strategic Management Journal

- Theory and Decision


PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

- Academy of Management

- Economic Science Association

- Midwestern Psychological Association

- Society for Judgment and Decision Making


TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Teaching Assistant (University of Chicago)

- Strategies and Processes of Negotiation (Professor Uri Gneezy), Autumn 2004

- Managerial Decision Making (Professor George Wu), Winter 2006-2009

- Advanced Marketing Strategy (Professor Suresh Ramanathan), Fall 2006

- Experimental Economics (Professor John List), Spring 2007

- Managerial Decision Making and Negotiation (Professor George Wu), Summer 2007


Teaching Assistant (California Institute of Technology)

- Introduction to Applied and Computational Mathematics (Graduate Level), Winter 2004 (Professor Sterl Phinney), Spring 2004 (Professor Oscar Bruno)

- Introduction to Economics (Undergraduate Level), Autumn 2003 (Professor Charles Plott), Spring 2004 (Professor Simon Wilkie)


REFERENCES


George Wu (Dissertation Chair)
Professor of Behavioral Science
University of Chicago
Booth School of Business
5807 South Woodlawn Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
773-834-0519 (phone)
773-834-9134 (fax)
wu@chicagobooth.edu


Reid Hastie
Robert S. Hamada Professor of Behavioral Science
University of Chicago
Booth School of Business
5807 South Woodlawn Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
773-834-9167 (phone)
773-834-9134 (fax)
reid.hastie@chicagobooth.edu


Nicholas Epley
Professor of Behavioral Science
University of Chicago
Booth School of Business
5807 South Woodlawn Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
773-834-1266 (phone)
773-834-9134 (fax)
epley@chicagobooth.edu


John List
Professor of Economics
University of Chicago
Department of Economics
1126 East 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
773-702-9811 (phone)
773-702-8490 (fax)
jlist@uchicago.edu