Think Like an Economist：Behavioural Insights into Decisions, Competition and AI

2026年11月4日（星期三）15:50

笃行楼 710

Jingjing Zhang，悉尼大学经济学教授、经济学院院长，主要研究如何运用实验经济学方法，为拍卖、市场、投票与委员会决策、寻租竞赛、资源配置及集体决策等设计并改进制度。张教授已获160余万澳元竞争性资助，资助机构包括瑞士国家科学基金会、美国国家科学基金会和澳大利亚研究理事会。她的研究成果发表在Management Science、The Economic Journal、Experimental Economics、Games and Economic Behavior、Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 等权威期刊。

Professor Jingjing Zhang is Head of the School and Professor of Economics at the University of Sydney. As an internationally recognised experimental and behavioural economist, she studies market design and public economics to improve decisions, institutions and social outcomes. Her globally connected research has attracted more than $1.6 million in competitive funding from bodies including the Swiss National Science Foundation, the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Australian Research Council. Professor Zhang has published extensively in leading journals including Management Science, The Economic Journal, Experimental Economics, Games and Economic Behavior, and Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.

Why do we take risks, choose default offers, or spend too much trying to win? How do our choices change when others respond—and when AI starts making decisions for us?

In this lecture, Professor Jingjing Zhang, invites students to think like economists through everyday examples and insights from behavioural economics. Students will explore how trade-offs, fairness, social influences and competition shape decisions, discovering why individually sensible choices can produce surprising collective outcomes.