WELCOME TO MY WEBSITE!
I am a Professor of Economics at the Economics Programme and Chair of the School of Social Sciences at Nanyang Technological University (NTU).
I am an Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (JEBO).
My research primarily revolves around Experimental and Behavioral Economics.
Click here to view my CV or to visit my official NTU website.
On this website, you can find more information about my background, research, and teaching activities.
SOME SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
“How Dark Trading Harms Financial Markets?" (with Edward Halim, Nilanjan Roy, and Wang Yan), Economic Journal. Volume 135, Issue 669, pp. 1711–1733, (2025).
"Incentivizing Organ Donation under Different Priority Rules: The Role of Information," (with Li Mengling), Management Science, 71(2), pp. 1418-1437, (2025).
"Sharing Idiosyncratic Risks Even Though Prices are Wrong", (with Edward Halim and Nilanjan Roy), Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 200, 105400, (2022).
"Cooperation and Punishment Mechanism in Uncertain and Dynamic Social Networks", (with Edoardo Gallo, Nilanjan Roy, and Teh Tat How), Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 200, 105400, (2022).
"Managerial Incentives and Stock Price Dynamics: An Experimental Approach," (with Bao Te, Edward Halim, and Charles Noussair), Experimental Economics, 24(2), pp. 617-648, (2021).
"Best Practices in Replication: A Case Study of Common Information in Coordination Games," (with Roy Chen and Yan Chen), Experimental Economics, pp. 1-29, 10.1007/s10683-020-09658-8, (2021).
"Highly Flexible Neighborhood Promotes Efficient Coordination: Experimental Evidence,” (with Teh Tat How), European Economic Review, Vol. 129, Article 103521, (2020).
"The Effect of Language on Economic Behavior: Examining the Causal Link between Future Tense and Time Preference in the Lab," (with Josie I Chen and He Tai-Sen) European Economic Review, Vol. 102, 12p, (2019).
"Costly Information Acquisition, Social Networks, and Asset Prices: Experimental Evidence," (with Edward Halim and Nilanjan Roy), Journal of Finance, Vol.74, Issue 4, pp. 1975-2010, (2019).
"Enhancing Effort Supply with Prize-Augmenting Entry Fees: Theory and Experiments," (with Robert G. Hammond and Lu Jingfeng), International Economic Review, Vol. 60, Issue 3, pp. 1063-1096. (2019).
"Putting a Price Tag on Others’ Perception of Us," (with Zhang Jianlin), Experimental Economics, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 480-499.
"Would You Pay for Transparently Useless Advice? A Test of Boundaries of Beliefs in the Folly of Prediction", (with Nattavudh Powdthavee), Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 97, No. 2, 257-272, (2015).
"How Does Voice Matter? Evidence from the Ultimatum Game”, (with Ong Qiyan and Steve Sheffrin), Experimental Economics, Vol . 15, No.4, pp.604-621, (2012).
AWARD & PRIZES
The winner of 2020 Vernon L. Smith Award for Excellence in Experimental Finance awarded by the Society of Experimental Finance |
The 2016 Finalist of the Exeter Prize for Research in Experimental Economics, Decision Theory and Behavioral Economics (Awarded annually to the best paper published in the previous calendar year in peer-reviewed journal in the field of Experimental Economics, Decision Theory and Behavioral Economics.) |
MEDIA COVERAGE
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I gave a talk at TEDxNTU way back in 2012 on behavioral economics and happiness. You can also click the thumbnail figure below to bring you to the clip.
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I appeared on the "It Figures", a popular series on breaking down facts and data on a host of interesting (social) issues produced by Channel News Asia. In this episode I talk about Behavioral Nudges and Jaywalking (see IT Figures S5 EP 10 - from minutes 18:45 - 22:06). You can also click the thumbnail figure below to bring you to the clip..
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I also appeared on the "Money Mind", another popular series providing tips for investors, business ideas for businessmen and comments on the economy, markets, companies, financial products, and trends (see Money Mind Ep. 30: The Power of Choice - from minutes 4:45 - 5:55). You can also click the thumbnail figure below to bring you to the clip.
Yohanes Eko Riyanto
Economics Programme
School of Social Sciences
Nanyang Technological University
48 Nanyang Avenue SHHK 05-56E
Singapore 639818
e-mail: yeriyanto@ntu.edu.sg
Yohanes E. Riyanto
Version November 2025
