Mofei Jia PH.D.

Assistant Professor in Economics

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.


  • PhD , University of Trento, - 2014


  • Assistant Professor, 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


  • Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Econometrics, Statistics


  • Fišar, M., Greiner, B., Huber, C., Katok, E., Ozkes, A., and the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration (forthcoming). Reproducibility in Management Science. Management Science. Note: Member of the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration
  • 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.


  • 2023, European Regional Science Association 2023 62nd Congress
  • 2023, Workshop on Social Networks in Economics
  • 2023, Economic Science Association Asia-Pacific Meeting, Seoul
  • 2019, Economic Science Association World Meeting
  • 2019, Chinese Economists Society Conference
  • 2018 Economic Science Association World Meeting
  • 2017 Economic Science Association World Meeting
  • 2013, 8th Conference on Extreme Value Analysis, Probabilistic and Statistical Models and their Applications
  • 2012, 1st Conference of the International Society of NonParametric Statistics


  • JIA, MOFEI 2023, Principal Investigator, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) – Young Scientists Fund, 300,000RMB.
  • JIA, MOFEI 2022, Principal Investigator, A fees-only PhD scholarship (a tuition fee waiver for three years, 240,000RMB total value).
  • JIA, MOFEI 2021, Principal Investigator, Peer effects and network formation, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Research Enhancement Fund, 50,000 RMB.
  • JIA, MOFEI 2020, Principal Investigator, Credit card debt puzzle: behavioral intervention and empirical analysis, Key Program Special Fund-Exploratory Research Program, 200,000 RMB.
  • JIA, MOFEI 2017, Principal Investigator, Research Development Fund-Experimental Studies on the Influence of Culture on Individuals Behavior in Group Decisions, 98,600 RMB.
  • JIA, MOFEI 2022, Principal Investigator, Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, 6,000 RMB
  • JIA, MOFEI 2021, Principal Investigator, Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, 11,200 RMB


  • BUS303 Final Year Project
  • ECO101 Introduction to Statistics
  • ECO222 Behavioural Economics


  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, 2018
Mofei Jia