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Jingwen (Gin) Tian

PhD Student in Economics

Current Positions

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant, Economics

Education

  • PhD Student in Economics, University of Iowa, expected graduation Summer 2025
  • BA in Economics, Peking University

Selected Awards & Honors

  • Ballard and Seashore Dissertation Fellowship - University of Iowa, 2024
  • Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award - Tippie College of Business, 2022
  • Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award - University of Iowa, 2022
  • Graudate College Summer Fellowship - University of Iowa, 2021
  • Outstanding Research Paper Award - Department of Economics, 2021
  • Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award - Department of Economics, 2020
  • Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship - University of Iowa, 2020

Selected Publications

Selected Presentations

  • "Commitment, Firm and Industry Effects in Strategic Divisionalization," Accepted Speaker at Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association, Ft Lauderdale, Florida, November 2022.
  • "Commitment, Firm and Industry Effects in Strategic Divisionalization," Accepted Speaker at Stony Brook International Conference on Game Theory, Stony Brook, New York, July 2022.
  • "Critical Mass and Campaign Success: A Behavioral Model of Reward-based Crowdfunding," Accepted Speaker at Economics Graduate Student Conference, St Louis, Missouri, October 2021.

Working Papers

  • Amir, R., Tian, J., & Bertrand, J. (2024). Duopoly with a Captive Uninformed Consumer Segment.
  • Amir, R. & Tian, J. (2024). Commitment, Firm and Industry Effects in Strategic Divisionalization.
  • Tian, J., Wei, J., & Fan, W. (2024). When Crowdfunding Meets Traditional Bank Financing: Substitute or Supplement?
  • Tian, J. (2024). Critical mass and campaign success: a behavioral model of reward-based crowdfunding.
  • Amir, R. & Tian, J. (2024). Volunteer's Dilemma: Cost-Sharing Revisited.

Employment History

  • Graduate Fellow, Economics, University of Iowa, 2024