Angela A. Hung

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Director, RAND Center for Financial and Economic Decision Making; Senior Economist; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Santa Monica Office

Education

Ph.D. and M.S. in social science, California Institute of Technology; M.A. in economics, University of Virginia; B.A. in mathematical economic analysis, Rice University

Overview

Biography

Angela Hung, a senior economist at the RAND Corporation, directs the RAND Center for Financial and Economic Decision Making. She is also a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Hung's research focus centers on financial decisionmaking, financial literacy, and retirement planning. Hung has been a referee of several journals, including the American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and the Journal of Applied Econometrics. She has an M.A. in economics from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. in social science from the California Institute of Technology.

Research Focus

Recent Projects

  • Investment Adviser and Broker-Dealer Study (Principal Investigator)
  • Future Beneficiary Expectations of the Returns to Delayed Social Security Benefit Claiming and Choice Behavior (co-Principal Investigator)
  • Promoting Conscience In Corporations: An Experimental Investigation of Opportunistic Behavior among Corporate Employees
  • Understanding the Effects of Health Insurance and Pensions on Labor Force Transitions of Older Workers: Investigation of the effects and implications of 401(k) fees on retirement planning decisions
  • Opt-in, Opt-out in Class Action Employment Litigation: Investigation of the effect of the differences in state and federal law on The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 litigation

Selected Publications

Angela A. Hung and Jeff Dominitz, "Empirical Models of Discrete Choice and Belief Updating in Observational Learning Experiments," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (forthcoming)

Angela A. Hung and Charles R. Plott, "Information Cascades: Replication and an Extension to Majority Rule and Conformity Rewarding Institutions," American Economic Review, (December), 2001

Economics

Recent Projects

  • Investment Adviser and Broker-Dealer Study
  • Financial decisionmaking in retirement accounts
  • Future Beneficiary Expectations of the Returns to Delayed Social Security Benefit Claiming and Choice Behavior
  • Financial Literacy in the HRS and American Life Panel
  • Retirement favings portfolio management

Selected Publications

Angela Hung, Jeff Dominitz, "Empirical Models of Discrete Choice and Belief Updating in Observational Learning Experiments," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (forthcoming)

Angela Hung, Jeff Dominitz, "Retirement Savings Portfolio Management," Journal of Financial Transmission (forthcoming)

Hung, A., Clancy, N., Dominitz, J., Talley, E., Berrebi, C., and Suvankulov, F, Investor and Industry Perspectives on Investment Advisers and Broker-Dealers, RAND Corporation (TR-556-SEC), 2008

Angela Hung, Charles R. Plott, "Information Cascades: Replication and an Extension to Majority Rule and Conformity Rewarding Institutions," American Economic Review, (Dec), 2001