Vivian J. Zheng

Welcome to my website! I am Vivian Zheng, an experimental and behavioral economist with a Ph.D. in Economics from University of California, Santa Cruz. My research focuses on how human behavior, information processing, and cognitive biases shape decision-making and outcomes in financial markets and economic institutions. Through laboratory experiments and behavioral economic methods, I study topics such as information acquisition, asset pricing, market liquidity, motivated beliefs, and strategic interaction. As a dedicated educator, I have served as both an instructor and teaching assistant across a variety of economics courses, with particular experience in game theory, managerial economics, and experimental economics.