Jaya Y. Wen
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Business, Government and the International Economy
Jaya Wen is an Assistant Professor in the Business, Government and the International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School. Her research focuses on issues in development economics, political economy, and firm behavior.
Professor Wen has a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University. Prior to joining HBS, Professor Wen was a postdoctoral fellow at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. In her free time she enjoys cooking, kayaking, writing fiction, and playing soccer.
Pronunciation guide: the first syllable of "Jāy-a" rhymes with "May.”
- Working Papers
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- Iyoha, Ebehi, Edmund Malesky, Jaya Wen, and Sung-Ju Wu. "Exports in Disguise? Trade Rerouting During the U.S.–China Trade War." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-072, May 2024. (Revised September 2025.) View Details
- Liu, Xueyue, Yu Liu, Alexey Makarin, and Jaya Y. Wen. "Export Controls and Innovation in Sanctioned Countries." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-004, August 2024. (Revised September 2025.) View Details
- Wen, Jaya Y. "State Employment as a Strategy of Autocratic Control in China." Working Paper, January 2023. View Details
- Nunn, Nathan, Nancy Qian, and Jaya Y. Wen. "Trust and Democracy: Leader Turnover during Economic Crises." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 24187, January 2018. (Revised February 2023. Available also from VOX and in Kellogg Insight.) View Details
- Wen, Jaya Y., Haichao Fan, Yu Liu, and Nancy Qian. "The Dynamic Effects of Computerized VAT Invoices on Chinese Manufacturing Firms." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 24414, April 2020. (Available also from VOX and in VOX China.) View Details
- Davis, C. Austin, Paula Lopez-Pena, A. Mushfiq Mobarak, and Jaya Wen. "Causes and Consequences of State Violence against Civilians: The Rohingya of Myanmar." Working Paper, August 2023. View Details
- Kang, Zi Yang, Joris Mueller, Jaya Y. Wen, and Cheryl Wu. "Public Displays of Alignment." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-064, June 2025. (Revised December 2025.) View Details
- Journal Articles
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- Wen, Jaya Y., Ebehi Iyoha, Edmund Malesky, and Sung-Ju Wu. "Research: The Costs of Circumventing Tariffs." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (February 13, 2025). View Details
- Davis, C. Austin, Paula Lopez-Peña, A. Mushfiq Mobarak, and Jaya Y. Wen. "Refugees Are Hosted in Highly Vulnerable Communities." American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 114 (May 2024): 75–79. View Details
- Fan, Haichao, Yu Liu, Nancy Qian, and Jaya Y. Wen. "Technological Adoption and Taxation: The Case of China's Golden Tax Reform." Tax Policy and the Economy 38 (2024): 101–122. View Details
- Wen, Jaya Y., Meta Brown, Wilbert van der Klaauw, Basit Zafar, and John Grigsby. "Financial Education and the Debt Behavior of the Young." Review of Financial Studies 29, no. 9 (September 2016): 2490–2522. View Details
- Wen, Jaya Y. "Industry-Level Supply-Side Market Concentration and the Price of Military Conflict." Conflict Management and Peace Science 29, no. 1 (February 2012): 79–92. View Details
- Work in Progress
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- Wen, Jaya Y., Haichao Fan, Guanchun Liu, and Huanhuan Wang. "Fiscal Shortfalls, Financialization, and the Private Sector." Working Paper, 2024. View Details
- Wen, Jaya Y., Yulu Tang, and Cheryl Wu. "Civil Wars and Strategic Subsidies." Working Paper, 2023. View Details
- Cases and Teaching Materials
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- Wen, Jaya Y. "The Crisis with Two Names: The 1997 Asian Financial Crisis - The IMF Crisis (아이엠에프 위기)." Harvard Business School Case 722-041, February 2022. (Revised January 2024.) View Details
- Wen, Jaya. "Thailand: Red Shirts, Yellow Shirts, and a Green Revolution." Harvard Business School Case 723-010, March 2023. (Revised February 2024.) View Details
- Hussam, Reshmaan, Sophus A. Reinert, and Jaya Y. Wen. "Bangladesh: Into the Maelstrom." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 723-050, February 2023. View Details
- Wen, Jaya Y. "The Crisis with Two Names: The 1997 Asian Financial Crisis - The IMF Crisis (아이엠에프 위기)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 722-071, May 2022. (Revised May 2022.) View Details
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