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I am currently an Associate Professor in Quantitative Methods in the School of Business and Management at Queen Mary University of London.
My research focuses on business surveys, firm expectations, management practices, and productivity, aiming to understand and explain management practices to promote higher productivity among businesses. My other research interest lies at the intersection of urban economics and behavioural sciences. My PhD thesis conducts micro-econometrical analysis of household’s housing decisions, with a special focus on the impact of behavioural biases, such as loss aversion and inattention.
I hold a PhD and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, as well as a BA from Renmin University of China.
PUBLICATIONS
The International Empirics of Management (With Scott Ohlmacher, Daniela Scur et al.), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(45), e2412205121, 2024
Housing Wealth Distribution, Inequality, and Residential Satisfaction (With Helen X. H. Bao), Regional Studies, 1-14, 2023
The Price Paid: Heuristic Thinking and Biased Reference Points in the Housing Market, (sole author), Journal of Urban Economics, 134, 2023
Reference Dependence, Loss Aversion and Residential Property Development Decisions (With Helen X. H. Bao and J. Wu), Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 36:1535–1562, 2021
- ERES Award for the Best Doctoral Student Paper, 2017
- ADBI Special Prize for the Best Paper on Urbanization in Asia, AREUEA, 2016
Loss Aversion and Housing Studies (with H. X. Bao), Journal of Real Estate Literature, 25(1), 49-75, 2017
Are We Humans or Are We Econs? Effect of Sunk Cost Fallacy in Real Estate Development Decisions (with Helen X. H. Bao and J. Wu), Journal of Real Estate Practice and Education, 20(1):51-62, 2017
Food Prices and Inflation Dynamics in China (with C. Zhang and L. Getz), China Agricultural Economic Review, 6(3): 395-412, 2014
WORKING PAPERS
Do Well Managed Firms Make Better Forecasts? (With Nicholas Bloom, Takafumi Kawakubo, Paul Mizen, Rebecca Riley, Tatsuro Senga and John Van Reenen), NBER working paper 29591, R&R Review of Economics and Statistics
Who Wants to Improve their Management? Evidence from a Failed Experiment (With Paul Mizen, Rebecca Riley, Jakob Schneebacher)
Investigating Businesses’ Responses to COVID via Web Crawling and Text Mining (With John Forth, Rebecca Riley)
Academic CV (June 2025)
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