Research

Working Papers:

• • Melons as Lemons: Asymmetric Information, Consumer Learning and Seller Reputation. online appendix

Accepted, Review of Economic Studies. 

• • 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

R&R, 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

• • The Impact of Intranational Trade Barriers on Exports: Evidence from a Nationwide VAT Rebate Reform in China (with Jiahua Liu).

(previously circulated as "The Impact of Local Trade Barriers on Export Activities, Firm Performance and Resource Misallocation")

R&R, Journal of Comparative Economics

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.

• The Collateral Damage of the US-China Tech War (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, 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:

• 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.