research
Research
My research interest falls in the areas of comparative institutional analysis, China's economy and political economy, theory of the firm, development economics
Publications
Career Concerns, Beijing Style (with Kim-Sau Chung and Xue Qiao) International Economic Review, forthcoming
The King Can Do No Wrong: On the Criminal Immunity of Leaders (with Kim-Sau Chung and Xue Qiao) Journal of Public Economics, Volume 170, February 2019, Pages 15-26
Decentralization and Political Career Concerns (with Kim-Sau Chung and Yang K. Lu) Journal of Public Economics, Volume 145, January 2017, Pages 201-210
The Good, the Bad, and the Civil Society (with Kim-Sau Chung and Xue Qiao) Journal of Public Economics
Entry, Reputation, and Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement (with Larry Qiu and Wen Zhou) Canadian Journal of Economics
A Dynamic Model of Privatization with Endogenous Post-Privatization Performance Review of Economic Studies
Dual Track Reform: With and Without Losers (with Giovanni Facchini) Journal of Public Economics
Culutural Differences, Insecure Property Rights and the Mode of Entry Decision (with Giovanni Facchini) Economic Theory
Rent Seeking and Government Ownership of Firms: An Application to China's Township–Village Enterprises Journal of Comparative Economics
Insecure Property Rights and Government Ownership of Firms (with Yingyi Qian) Quarterly Journal of Economics
Institutional Environment, Community Government, and Corporate Governance: Understanding China's Township and Village Enterprises (with Yingyi Qian) Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (lead article)
Work in progress
The Last Supper: Complementing Financial Discipline with Bailouts (with Wen Zhou)
Multilateral Investment Agreement (with Gerald Willmann)
A Road Next to Democracy: China's Communist Party Regime as a Self-Selecting Mechanism of Succession
Ceteris Paribus: the Patterns of Knowledge Production and Dissemination and their Long-term Implications
Dynamic Non-Rivalry and Limits to Private Ownership