Jingwen Tian

Assistant Professor in Economics

Wuhan University

Biography

I am an assistant professor in Economics and Management School of Wuhan University. My major research interests lie in industrial organization (R&D, patent licensing, oligopoly pricing, etc.), game theory (supermodular games), public good theory and crowdfunding.

Interests

Industrial Organization
Public Economics
Supermodular Games
Crowdfunding/Entrepreneurship

Education

PhD in Economics, 2025

The University of Iowa
Bachelor of Economics in Finance, 2017

Peking University

Publications

Rabah Amir, Huizhong Liu, Tatiana Mayskaya, Jingwen Tian (2026). On the Repeated Volunteer's Dilemma with Equal Cost Sharing. Economic Theory.

Rabah Amir, Dominika Machowska, Jingwen Tian (2025). The Volunteer’s Dilemma with Cost Synergies. Journal of Conflict Resolution https://doi.org/10.1177/00220027251388601.

Jingwen Tian, Ju Wei, Weiguo Fan, Yafei Wang (2024). When crowdfunding meets traditional bank financing: Substitute or supplement?. International Journal of Production Economics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2024.109374.

Rabah Amir, Christine Halmenschlager, Jingwen Tian (2024). University-firm collaboration in basic research. Annals of Economics and Statistics https://doi.org/10.2307/48767561.

Rabah Amir, Zhiwei Liu, Jingwen Tian (2023). Negative network effects and public policy in vaccine markets. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2023.10.005.

Huizhong Liu, Jingwen Tian (2023). Spillovers and strategic commitment in R&D. Theory and Decision, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11238-023-09953-9.

Working Papers

Jingwen Tian (2025). Critical mass and campaign success: a behavioral model of reward based crowdfunding.

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Jingwen Tian (2024). Comparative statics for the private provision of normal and inferior public good.

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Rabah Amir, Jingwen Tian (2024). Bertrand duopoly with a captive uninformed consumer segment.

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Rabah Amir, Jingwen Tian (2023). Commitment, firm and industry effects in strategic divisionalization.

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Work in Progress

Rabah Amir, Hyunki Min, Jingwen Tian (2023). Patent licensing for single-network goods.

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Teaching

Principles of Macroeconomics

Instructor, Wuhan University, Spring 2026

Academic Writing