Jia Wei Zhang
PhD Candidate • Berlin School of Economics • HU Berlin • Germany
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Jia Wei Zhang

PhD Candidate • BSoE • HU Berlin
Berlin, Germany

Auctions, information economics, market design, and mechanism design.

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  • Aug. 2026 — New draft: “Higher Verification Costs Can Support More Disclosure”
  • Aug. 2026 — New draft: "Entry Coordination in Auctions with Entry Cost"
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Research

Entry Coordination in Auctions with Entry Cost

Jia Wei Zhang · Working paper · Revision requested by Games and Economic Behavior.
Topics: Auctions, costly entry, correlated equilibrium
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When to Hire an Influencer?

Yushan Meng, Jia Wei Zhang · Working paper
Topics: Cheap talk, communication, influencers
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Higher Verification Costs Can Support More Disclosure

Jia Wei Zhang · Working paper
Topics: Disclosure, verification, evidence
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About

Short bio

I am a PhD candidate at the Berlin School of Economics (BSoE), Humboldt University of Berlin, supervised by Prof. Roland Strausz and Prof. Sebastian Schweighofer-Kodritsch. My research interests are auctions, information economics, market design, and mechanism design.

In September 2026, I will join Mercator School of Management, University of Duisburg-Essen as a postdoc.