Selected Publications
"'Bringing Dead Capital to Life: Property Rights Security in China" with Kishore Gawande, Journal of Law and Economics, 2024, Vol. 67(2), pp. 265-294. (Lead article).
Promotion at Center for Global Business of UT McCombs School of Business
Media coverage: Phys.org
"'The Effectiveness of Entry Deregulation: Novel Evidence from Removing Minimum Capital Requirements," with Siying Ding, and Yongzheng Liu, Journal of Development Economics, 2024, Vol. 170, pp. 103304.
Best paper, China Service Economics annual conference
“Career Incentives of Political Leaders and Corporate Operational Efficiency,” with Shusen Qi, and Liangfei Qiu, Production and Operations Management, 2024, Vol. 33(9), pp. 1931-1952.
"Corporate Disclosure Quality and Institutional Investors' Holdings During Market Downturns," with Dayong Huang, and Yan Luo, Journal of Corporate Finance, 2020, Vol. 60, pp. 101523.
Data on DQ. As some accounting/finance researchers once expressed interest in the DQ data for testing their stories, I share them here. Please acknowledge the source and cite the paper correctly.
Other Publications
“Subway and Entrepreneurship,” with Runliang Li, Kai Liu, and Fucheng Wei, World Development, 2025, Vol. 188, pp. 106917.
"Impact of Foreign Bank Penetration on Local Firms’ Export Destination Choices," with Hans Degryse, Shusen Qi, and Yuanyuan Si, Journal of Asian Pacific Economy, 2025, Forthcoming.
“Lottery-like Features and Mutual Fund Performance-Flow Sensitivity,” with Lingtian Kong, Tse-Chun Lin, Yan Luo, and Ningyu Zhou, Financial Management, 2025, Vol. 54(3), pp. 493-517.
“Can World Heritage Sites Boost Sales in Non-tourism Firms? The Role of Visibility,” with Yiming Liu, Review of Development Economics, 2025, Vol. 29(1), pp. 576-591.
"'CEO Compensation Convexity and Meeting‐or‐just‐beat Earnings Forecast," with Eli Bartov, Wilson Wai Ho Chan, Gang Hu, and Jingran Zhao, Accounting and Finance, 2024, Vol. 64(4), pp. 3301-3335.
"Asymmetric Corporate Tax Compliance: Evidence from a Tax Reform in China," with Xiaowei Chen, and Shusen Qi, China Economic Review, 2023, Vol. 79, pp. 101967.
"State Capacity, Economic Output, and Public Goods in China," with Kishore Gawande, and Shusen Qi, World Development, 2022, Vol. 158, pp. 105990.
Data on ancient population change matched to 2000 China's counties . Please acknowledge the source and cite the paper correctly.
Media coverage: IDinsight, Elsevier Chinese, 360doc
An earlier version at CSH Delhi.
(The book review "Luxury Goods and the Malthusian Trap", written by me and Susan Mays, has some related discussions with this topic.)
"Working with Women, Do Men Get All the Credit?" with Shusen Qi and Steven Ongena, Small Business Economics, 2022, Vol. 59, pp. 1427-1447.
Depository at Zurich Open Repository and Archive, University of Zurich; at KU leuven.
"Connected Banks and Economic Policy Uncertainty," with Kishore Gawande, Steven Ongena, and Shusen Qi, Journal of Financial Stability, 2021, Vol. 56, pp. 100920.
Media coverage: Duke University FinReg Blog
Depository at KU leuven.
"Enforcing Government Policies: The Role of State-owned Enterprise in China's One Child Policy," with Yuanyuan Ma, Shusen Qi, and Lixin Colin Xu, World Development, 2021, Vol. 146, pp. 105574.
Media coverage: Elsevier Chinese
"Competition and Favoritism in Bank Loan Markets," with Yan Dong, Xue Li, and Shusen Qi, Pacfic-Basin Finance Journal, 2020, Vol. 59, pp. 101214.
"Women’s Education and Marriage Decisions: Evidence from China," with Xue Li, Pacific Economic Review, 2019, Vol. 24(1), pp. 92-112.
(Top downloaded article on Pacific Economic Review in 2017 & 2018)
"Which is the Safe Haven for Emerging Stock Markets, Gold or the US Dollar?" with Xiaoqian Wen, Emerging Markets Review, 2018, Vol. 35, pp. 69-90.