My research can be categorized into two main strands: the first is primarily in international economics but also overlaps with economic geography; and the second is at the intersection of international economics, economic geography and environmental economics.
Published/Accepted Papers
“Spatial Equilibria: The Case of Two Regions,” with Konstantin Kucheryavyy and Andrés Rodríguez-Clare , March 2023, forthcoming at the Journal of International Economics
“Grounded by Gravity: A Well-Behaved Trade Model with Industry-Level Economies of Scale,” with Konstantin Kucheryavyy and Andrés Rodríguez-Clare , American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Vol. 15, Issue 2, Pages 372 -412, April 2023
“External Economies and International Trade Redux: Comment” with Andrés Rodríguez-Clare, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 128, No. 4, Pages 1895 -1905, November 2013
Working Papers
“The Economic Effects of Climate Change in Dynamic Spatial Equilibrium” with Ivan Rudik, Weiliang Tan and Ariel Ortiz-Bobea, May 2023 [Revision requested by Journal of Political Economy: Macroeconomics]
Media: ISU News Service, The Economic Times
“Trade Retaliation: China vs Theories,” with Ben Li and Xing Xu , June 2024 [Submitted]
Work in Progress
“Anti-Granular Comparative Advantage,” with Jianwei Ai, Haoran Li, Anton Yang and Wendong Zhang [In progress]
“Structural Estimation of the Gravity Model of Trade: Scale Economies and Supply-Chain Linkages,” with Russell Hillberry, and Anton Yang [In progress]
“Decreasing Costs in International Trade” [In progress]
"Climate Policies in Dynamic Spatial General Equilibrium"
Old Working Papers
““Marshallian Externalities, Comparative Advantage and International Trade,” with Andrés Rodríguez-Clare, Feb 2013, University of California Berkeley Working Paper
“Coming to America: Immigration and Labor Market Dynamics,” with Jiaming Mao [Preliminary and Incomplete]