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Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

  • Lin, Wanlin, Pablo Paniagua, and Minjun Yuan. 2025. “Conceptualizing Knowledge Commons: Knowledge Regimes and Industries”. Journal of Institutional Economics. 21, e28.

  • Lin, Wanlin, Siqin Kang, Jiangnan Zhu, and Li Ding. 2025. “How to Enter Business Networks? Drinking to Signal Cooperativeness in China”. Public Choice. 203, 3-22. 2025 Gordon Tullock Prize.

  • Lin, Wanlin, and Peng Wang. 2024. “The Social Order of Illegal Markets in Cyberspace: Extralegal Governance and China’s Internet Gambling”. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.11, 1643. (Impact Factor 3.7, Q1, JCI Rank 1/411 in Humanities, Multidisciplinary and 2/267 in Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary). 2025 Jianhong Liu Outstanding Paper Award.

  • Lin, Wanlin, Peng Wang, and Minjun Yuan. 2023. “Governing the Knowledge Commons: The Hybrid Relational-Contractual Governance in China’s Mining Industry”.World Development. 173. (Impact Factor 6.678, JCI Rank 1/62 in Development Studies and 19/586 in Economics).

  • Lin, Wanlin, and George C. S. Lin. 2023. “Strategizing Actors and Agents in the Functioning of Informal Property Rights: The Tragicomedy of the Extralegal Housing Market in China”. World Development. 161.

  • Lin, Wanlin. 2022. “Garnering Sympathy: Moral Appeals and Land Bargaining under Autocracy”, Journal of Institutional Economics. 18(5), 767-784.

  • Lin, Wanlin. The Endogenous Institutional Analysis and Change: The Perspective of Game Theory (内生的制度运行和变迁分析：博弈论的视角). Accepted. Journal of Peking University (Philosophy & Social Sciences) [北京大学学报（哲学社会科学版）].

  • Lin, Wanlin, Fengyi Zhao, Xingshen Wu, Meng Ge, Huiyin Yang, and Nan Li. 2013. “The Governance of Trans-boundary Water Pollution—Illustrated by the Example of Pearl River Basin (跨区域水资源污染治理研究—以珠江流域为例)”, Law Review of Sun Yat-Sen University(中山大学法律评论) 11(2):229–250.

  • Liu, Wei, and Wanlin Lin. 2013. “Rawls’ Distributive Justice: A Comparative Perspective（试论罗尔斯的分配理论：一种比较的视角）”, Seeker（求索）7:238–240.

  • Lin, Wanlin. 2012. “The Nation State and the ‘Leviathan’ of Hobbes：From the Perspective of Game Theory and Social Choice Theory（霍布斯自然状态和“利维坦”理论：博弈论和社会选择理论视角）”, Journal of Guangdong University of Finance & Economics (广东商学院学报), supplementary issue

Book

  • Wang, Peng, and Wanlin Lin. Extralegal Governance: The Social Order of Illegal Markets in China. 2025. Cambridge University Press.

Book Chapters

  • Yuan, Minjun and Wanlin Lin. 2023. “The Institutional Diversity of Online E-commerce Platforms in China”. In Living Better Together: Social Relations and Economic Governance in the Work of Ostrom and Zelizer, edited by Virgil Henry Storr and Stefanie Haeffele. Palgrave Macmillan.

  • Lin, Wanlin. 2020. “Community, State and Market: Rethinking Social Capital in Transtional Authoritarian Regimes”. In Exploring the Political Economy & Social Philosophy of Vincent and Elinor Ostrom, edited by Peter Boettke, Bobbi Herzberg, and Brian Kogelmann. Rowman & Littlefield International.

Works Submitted For Publication

  • Lin, Wanlin, Li Ding, and Ye Lin. “Innovation, Cooperation and Institutional Entrepreneurship”. Conditional accept. Small Business Economics.

  • Ding, Li and Wanlin Lin. “Judicial Inference, Quasi-Verifiability and Incentive Adjustment ”. Revise & Resubmit. Law, Probability and Risk. (corresponding author).

  • Lai, Ruoran, Wanlin Lin, and Li Ding.Walking the Tightrope: Contract Enforcement and Self-Policing under AML Regulation in China’s Stablecoin OTC Market. Under review(corresponding author).

Working Paper

  • Lin, Wanlin, Siqin Kang, Peng Wang, Li Ding. “Criminal resilience: Campaign-style enforcement and the adaptation of China’ s illegal online gambling market”.

  • Lai, Ruoran, Wanlin Lin, and Peng Wang. “Money Laundering and Its Organizational Variation in China: An Organizational Economics Framework”.(corresponding author).

  • Xiao, Zhenyu, and Wanlin Lin. “Beyond bilateral investment treaties: mechanisms of trust building and cooperation in international investment”.(corresponding author).

  • Ding, Lin, Ye Lin, and Wanlin Lin. “Signaling for trust-building: Considering the multiple dimensions of sender’s types”.

  • Lin, Wanlin, and Meina Cai. “Institutional Diversity of the Redevelopment of Urban Villages in China”.

  • Cai, Meina, Greg Caskey, Wilson Law, Wanlin Lin, Ilia Murtazashvili, and Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili. “The Ostroms in Beijing”.​

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