Vai-Lam Mui

Organisation:

Department of Economics

Title:

Associate Professor

Qualifications:

BSocSc (Hons) Chinese University of Hong Kong, PhD Economics University of California (Berkeley)

Vai-Lam’s research interests are in applied microeconomic theory, behavioural economics, the economics of organizations and institutions, experimental economics, and political economy. He has done theoretical work in the economics of envy, as well as in the political economy of social purges such as the European witch-hunt, McCarthyism, and the Chinese Cultural Revolution. He has also done work that combined the laboratory method with behavioural economics and political economy. For example, one of his current research projects uses the laboratory method to study the political economy of leader transgression against the rights of subordinates. It investigates how different kinds of social interactions between subordinates - such as non-binding communication between them--may trigger concerns beyond narrow self-interests and facilitate collective resistance against leader transgression.

Office:

Clayton Campus
Room E963, Building 11
Monash University Vic 3800

Telephone:

+61 3 9905 2349

Fax:

+61 3 9905 5476

E-mail:

Vai-Lam.Mui@BusEco.monash.edu.au

Teaching Commitments:

ECC2400 Curent Issues in Applied Microeconomics
ECC5840 Information, Incentives and Games
ECC5850 Mathematical Economic Theory
PMM2020 - Economic and statistical decision making

Research Interests:

Applied microeconomic theory, behavioural economics, economics of organizations and institutions, experimental economics, political economy.

Selected Publications:

Mui, V.L. (1995), ‘The Economics of Envy', Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 26, 311-336.

Cason, T. and Mui, V.L. (1997), ‘A Laboratory Study of Group Polarization in the Team Dictator Game', Economic Journal, 107, 1465-1483.

Cason, T. and Mui, V.L.. (1998), ‘Social Influence in the Sequential Dictator Game', Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 42, 248-265.

Mui, V.L. (1999), ‘Contracting in the Shadow of a Corrupt Court', Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 155, 249-283.

Mui, V.L. (1999), ‘Information, Civil Liberties, and the Political Economy of Witch-hunts," Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 15, 503-525.

Cason, T. and Mui, V.L. (2002), ‘Fairness and Sharing in Innovation Games: A Laboratory Investigation', Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 48, 243-264.

Cason, T. and Mui, V.L. (2003), ‘Testing Political Economy Models of Reform in the Laboratory', American Economic Review, 93, 208-212.

Cason, T. and Mui, V.L. (2005), ‘Uncertainty and Resistance to Reform in Laboratory Participation Games', European Journal of Political Economy, 21, 708-737.

Argyres, N. and Mui, V.L. (2007), ‘Rules of Engagement, Credibility and the Political Economy of Organizational Dissent', Strategic Organization, 5, 107-154.

Cason, T. and Mui, V.L. (2007), ‘Communication and Coordination in the Laboratory Collective Resistance Game', Experimental Economics, 10, 251-267.

Home Page:

http://www-personal.buseco.monash.edu.au/~vlmui/