# TANG, Rui

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**Parent**: https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/leadership-and-behavioral-decision-making

TANG, Rui

Lee Heng Fellow, Assistant Professor

Department of Economics

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JIN, Lawrence

[TANG, Rui](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/tang-rui)

YE, Han

YI, Junjian

[ZHONG, Songfa](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/zhong-songfa)

[Path Dependency in Physician Decisions](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2026/01/path-dependency-physician-decisions)

We examine path dependency in physician decisions in an emergency department setting, and find that physicians’ treatment decisions for the current and previous patients are positively correlated. We show that the positive autocorrelation is higher when the current patient is of greater medical uncertainty or more similar to the previous patient in terms of
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[ [Leadership and Behavioral Decision-making](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/leadership-and-behavioral-decision-making "Leadership and Behavioral Decision-making") ]

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[TANG, Rui](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/tang-rui)

[Path Dependency in Physician Decisions](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2024/04/path-dependency-physician-decisions)

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[Decision Making](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/decision-making)

Do experts make biased decisions? In this study, we examine the decision-making of emergency department physicians who must decide whether to admit or discharge patients. We find evidence suggesting that these physicians are subject to biases in their decision-making. Specifically, we discovered that a physician's decision for a given patient can be
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[ [BizTalks](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/biztalks "BizTalks") ]

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