Dr. Mofei Jia joined IBSS as an Assistant Professor in Economics in 2016. She got her Ph.D. in Economics and Management at University of Trento, Italy in 2014. Her main research interests are econometrics, experimental and behavioral economics.
Qualifications
PhD , University of Trento, - 2014
MSc , Dalarna University, Sweden - 2010
BA , Tianjin University of Finance & Economics, China - 2008
Experience
Lecturer, International Business School Suzhou,Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University - 2016 to Present
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Institute for Intellectual Property Management, School of Management, Zhejiang University - 2015 to 2015
Visiting Scholar, School of Mathematics, Cardiff University - 2012 to 2012
Tutor in Statistics, University of Trento - 2011 to 2015
Teaching Assistant in Economics, Dalarna University - 2010 to 2010
Research interests
Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Econometrics, Statistics
Articles
Antinyan, A., Horváth, G., & JIA, MOFEI (2020). Positional concerns and social network structure: An experiment, European Economic Review, 103547, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2020.103547
Antinyan, A., Horváth, G., & JIA, MOFEI (2020). Curbing the consumption of positional goods: Behavioral interventions versus taxation, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 179, 1-21.
Antinyan, A., Horváth, G., & JIA, MOFEI (2019). Social status competition and the impact of income inequality in evolving social networks: An agent-based model. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 79, 53-69.
Andersson, D.E., & JIA, MOFEI (2019). Official and subjective hotel attributes compared: Online hotel rates in Shanghai. Journal of China Tourism Research, 15(1), 50-65
JIA, MOFEI, Taufer, E., & Dickson, M. (2018) Semi-parametric regression estimation of the tail index, Electronic Journal of Statistics, 12(1), 224-248
Grahovac, D., JIA, MOFEI, Leonenko, N., & Taufer, E. (2015) Asymptotic properties of the partition function and applications in tail index inference of heavy-tailed data, Statistics, 49(6), 1221-1242, DOI: 10.1080/02331888.2014.969267
Casal, S., Güth, W., JIA, MOFEI, & Ploner, M. (2012). Would you mind if I get more? An experimental study of the envy game. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 84(3), 857-865.
Conference presentations
2017-2018, 2018 Economic Science Association World Meeting / Social competition in networks: an experimental study
2016-2017, 2017 Economic Science Association World Meeting / Cooperation in Gains and Losses
2012-2013, 8th Conference on Extreme Value Analysis, Probabilistic and Statistical Models and their Applications / Asymptotic Properties of the Empirical Structure Function of Heavy-tailed Data and Tail Index Estimation
2011-2012, 1st Conference of the International Society of NonParametric Statistics / Regression Estimation of the Index of Regular Variation
Grants
JIA, MOFEI 2020, Principal Investigator, Credit card debt puzzle: behavioral intervention and empirical analysis, Key Program Special Fund-Exploratory Research Program, 200,000RMB.
JIA, MOFEI 2017, Principal Investigator, Research Development Fund-Experimental Studies on the Influence of Culture on Individuals Behavior in Group Decisions, 98,600RMB.
JIA, MOFEI 2017, Co-Investigator, Research Development Fund - Competition for social status in a networked society.
