Working Papers:
Quid Pro Quo, Knowledge Spillover, and Industrial Quality Upgrades: Evidence from the Chinese Auto Industry (with Panle Barwick, Shengmao Cao and Shanjun Li).
Links to: NBER Working Paper No. 27644; VoxDev
Accepted, American Economic Review
Stand Out from the Millions: Market Congestion and Information Friction on Global E-Commerce Platforms (with Maggie Chen, Jin Liu, Xiaosheng Mu and Daniel Xu).
Links to: NBER Working Paper No. 28100; VoxDev
R&R, The Review of Economics and Statistics
(previously circulated as "The Impact of Local Trade Barriers on Export Activities, Firm Performance and Resource Misallocation")
Links to: NBER Working Paper No. 26581; VoxDev; VoxChina
Work in Progress:
Demand-side Incentives and Quality Upgrading in Uganda's Coffee Supply Chain (with Lauren Bergquist, Ameet Morjaria, Russell Morton and Yulu Tang). Draft coming soon.
Impacts of the U.S. Sanction on Huawei: Perspectives from the Global Smartphone Industry (with Daniel Xu, Xu Yang and Yingyan Zhao)
Financial Constraints to Exporting and Growth among Large Firms: Experimental Evidence from Rwanda’s Export Growth Fund (with Lauren Bergquist, Christian Lippitsch, and Ignacio Marra).
Information Constraints in Domestic Supply Chain Linkages (with Lauren Bergquist, Christian Lippitsch, Ignacio Marra, and Vittorio Bass).
Information Frictions and Network Spillovers in Firm-to-Firm Linkages (with Lauren Bergquist, Federico Huneeus, Nicolas Jimenez, Yuhei Miyauchi).
Government-led Certification and Quality Complementarity in Developing Country Food Supply Chains (with Jing Cai, Chaikal Nuryakin, Prani Sastiono, Daniel Xu).
Raising Retail Productivity through Data Pooling (with Ajay Shenoy and David Sungho Park).
Platform-Generated Quality Ratings: Theory, Empirics and Welfare Implications (with Yanyou Chen, Daniel Xu, and Zhe Yuan).
Published/Forthcoming Paper:
Melons as Lemons: Asymmetric Information, Consumer Learning and Seller Reputation. online appendix. Review of Economic Studies, 2025.
Environmental Protection or Environmental Protectionism? Evidence from Tail Pipe Emission Standards in China (with Shanjun Li, Danxia Xie and Hui Zhou). AEA Papers and Proceedings 2021, Volume 111: 381-385
Collective Reputation in Trade: Evidence from the Chinese Dairy Industry (with Ludovica Gazze and Yukun Wang). The Review of Economics and Statistics (2021): 1-45. Online Appendix; VoxDev
Firm Growth and Corruption: Empirical Evidence from Vietnam (with Seema Jayachandran, Edmund J. Malesky and Benjamin Olken). Economic Journal 129 (618), pp. 651–677, February 2019. VoxDev.
Returns to Work, Child Labor and Schooling: the Income vs. Price Effects (with Yukun Wang). Journal of Development Economics, Volume 145, June 2020. VoxDev.