Research

Research

• "The Impact of Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) on Aviation CO2 Emissions", under review

• "Privatization and Service Quality: Empirical Evidence for the Proper Scope of Government" (with Haiyong Liu), under review

• "An Assessment of Technical Efficiency in U.S. Aquaculture Production" (with Jonathan Lee), under review

• “The “Long COVID” in the U.S. Flight Market and the Impact on Unruly Passengers” (with Jonathan Lee), Revise and Resubmit at Applied Economics. 

• "The Role of Carbon Taxes and Coal Combustion Byproducts on Fuel Switching in U.S. Electric Utilities" (with Jonathan Lee), working paper

• He, Q. and Rupp, N.G. "Run-up to a Merger: Pre-Consolidation Pricing by Merging Airlines and Their Rivals", Review of Industrial Organization (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11151-025-10033-1 

• He, Q. and J. Lee (2024) “Technical Efficiency of SO2 Scrubbers with Byproduct Contracts”, Economics Letters, p.112049. 

• He, Q. and X. Zheng (2020) “Price Discrimination across Different Ticket Distribution Channels: Evidence from the US-China Flight Market”, China Economic Review, 61.

• He, Q. (2016) “The Effect of Competition on Price Discrimination in the International Flight Market between the U.S. and China”, Economics of Transportation, 7, 1-23.

• He, Q. and J. Lee (2016) “The Effect of Coal Combustion Byproducts on the Pricing Strategy of Upstream Industries”, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 4, 11-24.

• He, Q., Z. Madjd-Sadjadi, and J. Lee (2016) “Cost Savings and Deregulation: An Analysis of Fuel Cost Savings in Deregulated Electricity Markets”, Applied Economics Letters, 23(16), 1173-1176.

• He, Q. and J. Lee (2014) “Additional Market Incentives for Abatement: An Analysis of Flue-gas Desulfurization By-products”, Resource and Energy Economics, 36(2): 370–393.