Difang Huang
Assistant Professor
Chinese Academy of Sciences
difang (at) amss.ac.cn
Welcome to my homepage!
- My research focuses on behavioral and experimental economics and finance, with special interest in (1) the dynamics of financial intermediation, and (2) human-algorithm interaction in decision-making.
- SSRN // arXiv
Position
- Assistant Professor, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2024-.
- Research Assistant Professor, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Hong Kong, 2022-2024.
Representative Publications
- A Tale of Two Banks: When Credit Loss Models Meet Economic Crises (w. Chen Chen)
- A Large-Scale Comparison of Divergent Thinking in Humans and Large Language Models (w. Haipeng Shen, Brian Uzzi, and Dawei Wang)
- Can Artificial Intelligence Improve Gender Equality? Evidence from a Natural Experiment (w. Leo Bao and Chen Lin)
- Measuring Gender and Racial Biases in Large Language Models: Intersectional Evidence from Automated Resume Evaluation (w. Jiafu An, Chen Lin, and Mingzhu Tai)
- Effects of lockdowns in shaping socioeconomic behaviors (w. Leo Bao, Jingcun Cao, Lata Gangadharan, and Chen Lin)
- How Did Small Business Respond to Unexpected Shocks? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in China (w. Muzi Chen, Yunlong Wang, Xiaoguang Yang, and Ye Zhou)
- Reform scientific elections to improve gender equality (w. Zhengyang Bao)
- Shadow Banking in a Crisis: Evidence from FinTech During COVID-19 (w. Zhengyang Bao)
Openings
- Contact me if you would like to explore the possibility of RA & post-doc in the 2025-2026 cohort.
- Placements of RAs:
- PhD in Finance @ CityU HK (2024)
- PhD in Finance @ HKU (2024)
- PhD in Economics @ Indiana (2025)
- PhD in IIM @ HKU (2025)
Code and Data
- Github repository, includes
- Data and program used in published papers;
- Code containing additional functionality for Mathematica/Matlab/Python/R/Stata.
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