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Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

  • 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).

  • Lin, Wanlin, Siqin Kang, Jiangnan Zhu, and Li Ding. 2024. “How to Enter Business Networks? Drinking to Signal Cooperativeness in China”. Public Choice.

  • 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. Book manuscript. Under Forthcoming July 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, Pablo Paniagua, and Minjun Yuan. “Conceptualizing Knowledge Commons: Knowledge Regimes and Industries”. Revise and resubmit. Journal of Institutional Economics.

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

  • Lin, Wanlin, and Li Ding “Property Rights, Social Cooperation and Governance: The Comparative Analysis Based on The Prisoner’s Dilemma Game and Stag Hunt Game （产权、社会合作与治理：基于囚徒困境博弈与猎鹿博弈的比较分析）”.Under review. 

  • Ding, Li and Wanlin Lin. “Judicial Inference, Quasi-Verifiability and Incentive Adjustment ”. Under review. (corresponding author).

Working Paper

  • Xiao, Zhenyu, and Wanlin Lin. “Beyond bilateral investment treaties: mechanisms of trust building and cooperation in international investment".

  • Lin, Wanlin, and Ye Lin. “Verifiability and Consumer Trust in the Healthcare Product Market.”

  • Ding, Lin, Ye Lin, and Wanlin Lin. “Signaling for trust-building: Considering the multiple dimesons of sender’s types.”Lin, Wanlin, and Minjun Yuan, and Paniagua Pablo. “Understanding the Medical Knowledge Governance from the Lens of Polycentrism”.

  • 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”.

  • Lin, Wanlin, Siqin Kang and Han Gao. “The Adoption and Diffusion of Shanty Redevelopment Policies”.

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