Dr. Wei Tan
Affiliated Academic
Education
PhD in economics, Johns Hopkins University
MA in economics, University of Miami
BA in economics, Wuhan University
Experience
Dr. Tan is the Chair of the Economics Department in the Hanqing Advanced Institute of Economics and Finance at Renmin University of China. His areas of expertise include industrial organization, applied econometrics, antitrust economics, and consumer finance. He has presented at international conferences and published widely on these topics in peer-reviewed international journals such as the Review of Industrial Organization, Eastern Economic Journal, Annals of Economics and Finance, and Competition Policy International.
Previously, Dr. Tan was an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He has also taught courses on mathematics at Johns Hopkins University, where he has held a graduate fellowship for five years.
Dr. Tan has extensive consulting experience with Chinese government agencies, such as the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM), the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), and the State Administration of Industry and Commerce (SAIC). Dr. Tan has conducted research and prepared expert reports on competition policy, and has spoken and lectured frequently on topics related to antitrust economics, including the evaluation of the competitive effects of mergers and acquisitions, the application of economics in litigation against vertical restraints, and the evaluation of intellectual property rights.
He has been the referee for leading international journals such as American Economic Review, Econometrica, and the RAND Journal of Economics. Dr. Tan holds a PhD in economics from Johns Hopkins University, an MA in economics from the University of Miami, and a BA in economics from Wuhan University.
