Guo Yuchen

Guo Yuchen

CUHK-UC San Diego Joint Laboratory on Chinese Economy; Department of Economics, Chinese University of Hong Kong

🔥 About me

My name is Yuchen Guo（郭宇辰）
Personal Website：https://economicsyuchenguo.github.io/
Tel:(+86)13217967676
E-mail: guoych53@gmail.com

Research Field
Public Economics, Political Science and Government, Experimental Economics

Interested Research Topics
Political Economy, Government behavior, Historical Economics

Education
Oct.2025- Postdoctoral Fellow, Collaborating Mentor: Ruixue Jia (UCSD), Ying Bai (CUHK)
CUHK-UC San Diego Joint Laboratory on Chinese Economy; Department of Economics, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Nov.2023-Nov.2024 Joint PhD program at the Department of Economics, University of California, San Diego
Co-Advisor: Ruixue Jia
（Funding from China Scholarship Council）

Sept.2021-June.2025 PhD       School of Government, Sun Yat-sen University  CHINA

Academic Service Serve as an anonymous reviewer for journals including International Review of Financial Analysis, Journal of Chinese Political Science, and Economic Research Journal (《经济学（季刊）》).

📝 Publications

  • Liang, Pinghan, Yadi Liu, Ychen Guo, & Zeng, F.”The heterogeneous impact of public security cameras on safety perceptions in cities: Evidence from China.” PNAS nexus 4.10 (2025): pgaf331.
  • Guo, Yuchen, and Pinghan Liang. “Budget rollover and year-end spending in China.” China Economic Review (2025): 102522. SSCI
  • Liang, Pinghan, Xijie Li, and Yuchen Guo. “Local Governments and the Diffusion of Video Surveillance in China: Evidence from the Public Procurement Contracts.” Journal of Chinese Political Science (2025): 1-27. SSCI
  • Dong, Zhiqiang, Yuchen Guo, and Jun Zhao. “How people respond to risk after being exposed to the risk of loss: An experimental study.” Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 97 (2022): 101845. SSCI Intro:This paper examines the effect of prior risk exposure on subsequent risk-taking behaviors. We perform laboratory-based experiments to distinguish the effect of the risk environment per se from that of the realized outcome of events.
  • Dong, Zhiqiang, Yuchen Guo, and Jun Zhao. “Higher risk exposure in gains brings more risk-taking in losses: an experimental study.” Applied Economics Letters (2023): 1-8. SSCI
  • Li, Xi, Aishi Zhang, and Yuchen Guo. “Are proactive employees more creative? The roles of multisource information exchange and social exchange-based employee-organization relationships.” Personality and Individual Differences 170 (2021): 110484. SSCI
  • Li, Xi, Aishi Zhang, and Yuchen Guo. “Causal Role of the Right Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex in Organizational Fairness Perception: Evidence From a Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Study.” Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 14 (2020): 134. SCI
  • Zhang, Aishi, Xi Li, and Yuchen Guo. “Proactive Personality and Employee Creativity: A Moderated Mediation Model of Multisource Information Exchange and LMX.” Frontiers in Psychology (2021): 2502. SSCI
  • 梁平汉,郭宇辰.社会与政府协同推动政府采购质量提升——基于政府采购协会成立的视角.经济学（季刊）.录用
  • 梁平汉,张艺川,郭宇辰.公共安全基础设施建设与居民服务消费.世界经济,2025,48(10):93-123.
  • 梁平汉,郭宇辰,李成林.财政压力与地方政府罚没收入.经济理论与经济管理,2025,45(05):55-74.
  • 梁平汉,郭宇辰.我国政府采购支出质量的评价及影响因素研究——基于政府采购信息披露质量的视角.宏观质量研究,2025,13(03):16-30.
  • 梁平汉,郭宇辰,赵玉兰.地方政府建设智能视频监控系统的影响因素研究.复旦公共行政评论,2023,(02):20-45.
  • 梁平汉,郭宇辰.中国政府采购公告数据的使用和潜在问题.产业经济评论,2023,(01):68-80.

💻 Working Paper

  • Yuchen Guo, Matthew O. Jackson, and Ruixue Jia. “Comrades and Cause: Peer Influence on West Point Cadets’ Civil War Allegiances”.

Intro:We examine how peers influence the allegiances of West Point cadets in the American Civil War. Specifically, we analyze how quasi-random variations in the proportion of cadets from northern (low-slave) states influenced the decisions of cadets in choosing which army to join. A higher proportion of classmates from low-slave states significantly increased the likelihood that cadets from high-slave states joined the Union Army, while almost all cadets from low-slave states joined the Union Army (if they decided to join the war). Additionally, the higher the fraction of the population that were slaves in a cadet’s home state the lower the likelihood that the cadet joined the Union and the lower the peer influence. We also examine how cadets’ decisions affected their military rank and career outcomes. Our results highlight the importance of peer influence in major life decisions, particularly at critical historical junctures.

  • Yuchen Guo, Chenglin Li and pinghan Liang. “Why is there so much surveillance in China——an explanation from a fiscal perspective”.   working paper.
  • Yuchen Guo, Qilin Huang and pinghan Liang. “Presidents’ Heel: Hometown Biases and (Mis)allocation of Chinese Universities Funds”.   working paper.

🛠 Working in Progress

  • pinghan Liang, Yichuan Zhang and Yuchen Guo. “Unexpected results in traffic monitoring”.
  • Yuchen Guo, Jingtang Chen and pinghan Liang.“How China’s growing video surveillance installation affects people’s sense of security and trust”
  • Yuchen Guo, Yiming Wang and pinghan Liang.“Conflict and Stability in Organizational Merger From the Perspective of Government Procurement Expenditure”

🎖 Honors and Awards

  • China Scholarship Council (CSC) Government Scholarship Program 2023
  • The 5th Tianjin University Doctoral Forum – Excellent Paper Award 2023
  • Ministry of Education National Scholarship for Postgraduate students 2021

💬 Research Experience

Research projects participated in

(1) Key project of the National Social Science Foundation of China: “Research on Building and Consolidating the Relationship between Pro Qing Government and Business” 2022-2024;
(2) National Natural Science Foundation of China General Project: “Experimental Research on Dynamic Property Rights Game Based on Evolutionary and Behavioral Perspectives” 2019-2023;
(3) Construction of the “Business Environment Survey” and “Two Health” Evaluation Index System for Guangdong Federation of Industry and Commerce in 2022;
(4) The National Social Science Youth Fund Project “Evaluation and Improvement of Anti Corruption Effectiveness in the New Era Based on Subjective Big Data” 2022-2025;
(5) The Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Science Youth Fund Project “Research on Neurocomputer System of Social Learning” 2020-2022

Jan. 2018- Jan. 2021

I am a member of the Key Laboratory of Behavior and Science of South China Normal University, mainly engaged in the design of experiments, compilation of experimental procedures, and presiding over experiments. Organize, design or write more than 10 experimental apps and contact more than 1000 experimental subjects. Experimental APP file: https://github.com/Louisfinne/Experiment-APP

Introduction to the Key Laboratory of Behavior and Science

It is an interdisciplinary collaborative innovation laboratory based on the provincial dominant key discipline of theoretical economics, supported by the first-class psychology discipline group in China, and integrated with interdisciplinary research forces. In January 2014, the laboratory was approved as the Key Laboratory of Philosophy and Social Sciences of Guangdong Province. The laboratory uses interdisciplinary knowledge, research methods and technical means such as economics, psychology and computer simulation technology to understand human economic behavior and its consequences.

Lab team members pose for a photo, taken in 2019:http://best.scnu.edu.cn/a/20190101/190.html

⌘ Others

  • Good at programming (I’ve written over 10 apps https://github.com/Louisfinne/Experiment-APP, a lot of experience in application and development of machine learning), Basketball
  • Interested in Climbing, Trail Running

🎙 Meetings & Speeches

  • The 11th International Symposium on Quantitative History
  • Seminar organized by Shanghai Jiao Tong University; two thousand and twenty-three
  • Shanghai University of Finance and Economics “YES” China Youth Economist Seminar
  • Industrial Economy Seminar of Dongbei University of Finance and Economics
  • Seminar of the Quantitative Economy Research Center of Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics; two thousand and twenty-three
  • The 10th Chinese Public Management Scholars Seminar; two thousand and twenty-two
  • The Fourth Environmental Technology and Economic Frontier Seminar of the Environmental and Development Research Center of the Academy of Social Sciences; two thousand and twenty
  • The First Experimental economics Conference on Economic Research; two thousand and nineteen

🧰 Language, Skills & Certifications

  • English and Mandarin
  • Python, C, C++, C#, Matlab, Stata, ArcGIS (Skilled in machine learning and image/text processing)