Jing Qian 钱璟
Assistant Professor of Political Science
New York University Shanghai
567 West Yangsi Road
Pudong New District
Shanghai, China, 200124
Email: jingqian@nyu.edu
Welcome!
I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at New York University Shanghai. I am also affiliated with the Center for Global Asia and the NYU Sovereign Debt Network.
My research sits at the intersection of international political economy, international organizations, public finance, and global governance. I study how states bargain, cooperate, and compete over the rules and institutions that govern development finance, taxation, and multinational economic activity. Substantively, my work examines multilateral development banks, the politics of development finance, international tax avoidance, and the institutional foundations of global economic governance.
My work has been published or is forthcoming in International Organization, The Review of International Organizations, Review of International Political Economy, and Public Administration.
I received my PhD in Politics from Princeton University in 2023, where I was affiliated with the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance. Before joining NYU Shanghai, I was a Postgraduate Research Associate and Lecturer in Princeton's Politics Department. I received my B.A. and M.A. from Fudan University.
You can find a copy of my CV here. (Last updated: August 2026)
Research Interests
Political economy of international taxation, multinational corporations, foreign direct investment, foreign aid, multilateral development banks, quantitative methods.
Peer-reviewed Publications
The Institutional Politics of Development Finance: ODA's Role in Shaping Subnational DFI Investments
Nicolas Bau, Simone Dietrich, Jing Qian, and Duy Trinh. Forthcoming.
The Review of International Organizations.
Qian, Jing, James Raymond Vreeland, and Jianzhi Zhao. 2025.
Review of International Political Economy. 32(4), pp. 1073-1099.
• Publisher Version (open access), Appendix, Dataverse
• Special issue on "China’s Rise and the Reconfiguration of Global Economic Governance"
• Media: Devex (gated)
• UC IGCC Working Paper
Qian, Jing, James Raymond Vreeland, and Jianzhi Zhao. 2023.
International Organization. 77(1), pp. 217-237.
• Publisher Version (open access), Appendix, Dataverse
• International Organization - 2023 Most Downloaded Articles
• Media: TIME (Coverage picked up by 30+ news outlets), Devex (gated), Pekinology
Qian, Jing, Jiahuan Lu, and Jianzhi Zhao. 2022.
Public Administration. 100(4), pp. 1161-1182.
Current Projects
Treaty Shopping, Race to the Bottom, and Treaty Cascades
(PDF)
World Bank's Responses to the Founding of China's AIIB
(with James Raymond Vreeland and Jianzhi Zhao)
Green AI Potential Stranded by Geopolitical Misalignment
(with Yimin Chen, Yijing Wang, Xiaoping Liu, Ming Luo, Yutian Liang, Weilin Liao, Zhu Deng, and Kangning Huang)
Flexibility in International Institutional Design: The Case of the OECD MLI
Domestic Institution and Multinational Profit-Shifting
Enumerators as Treatment Versions: Enumerator-Induced Treatment Heterogeneity and its Consequences
(with Brandon de la Cuesta and Simon Hoellerbauer)