o "An Anatomy of the Great Reallocation in US Supply Chain Trade". March 2026 version. Revise and resubmit.
With Laura Alfaro. NBER Working Paper No. 34490.
Paper prepared for the 26th IMF Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference.
o "The Great Firewall and Knowledge Diffusion". Preliminary version coming soon.
With Andrew B. Bernard, Esther Bøler, Sirig Gurung, and Wei Lu.
o "Can Evidence-Based Information Shift Preferences Towards Trade Policy?" March 2026 version. Revise and resubmit.
With Laura Alfaro and Maggie X. Chen. NBER Working Paper No. 31240.
o "The Aggregate Welfare and Trade Implications of Contracting Frictions in Global Sourcing". January 2026 version.
With Lin Ma. NBER Working Paper No. 34044.
Previously titled: "Contracting Frictions in Global Sourcing: Implications for Welfare".
o "Cumulative Innovation, Growth, and the Protection of Ideas". June 2023 version. Revise and resubmit.
With Edwin L.-C. Lai.
o "Does Bank FDI Promote Firm FDI? Evidence from China's Outbound Multinational Activity". Draft in progress.
With Tomoo Kikuchi and Jie Li. [Slides]
o ""Just Do Your Job": Obedience, Routine Tasks, and the Pattern of Specialization".
With Filipe R. Campante. September 2017 version. [Slides]
o "Obedience, Schooling, and Political Participation".
With Filipe R. Campante. March 2010 version.
Other Papers:
o "The 2004 Global Labor Survey: Workplace Institutions and Practices around the World".
With Richard B. Freeman. September 2005. NBER Working Paper No. 11598. [Data]
Older Stuff:
o "Innovation and Patentability Requirement in a Globalized World". With Edwin L.-C. Lai.
o "Skilled and Unskilled Wages in a Globalizing World, 1968-1998". Unpublished mimeo, not to be cited (dataset under revision).