Working Papers
"Urban Density and the Variety of Cultural Amenities: Evidence from Movie Theaters" (with Naqun Huang, Jing Li, Jimmy Xu, and Yanmin Yang), 2026.
"Connectivity and Selective Rural Migration for Agricultural Productivity Gains" (with Lin Ma, Qunfeng Wu, and Jimmy Xu), 2026. Accepted at PHBS-IER 2025 Conference and considered for International Economic Review 2026 Special Issue . [SSRN]
''Horizontal Regulatory Barriers in International Trade: Evidence from Electric Plugs'' (with Jimmy Xu), 2026. Conditionally accepted, Journal of International Economics. [SSRN]
"Tariffs as Bargaining Chips: A Quantitative Analysis of US-China Trade War" (with Naiyuan Hu and Tong Ni), 2025. Revise and resubmit, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics.
"Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism and Trade Policy: A Quantitative Analysis", (with Tong Ni, Haichao Fan, and Huanhuan Wang), 2025.
Working Progress
''National Treatment, Product Likeness, and Trade Restrictiveness of Technical Barriers'' (with Renjing Chen and Shenxi Song)
Publications
''The Impact of NAFTA on Prices and Competition: Evidence from Mexican Manufacturing Plants''(with Felipe Brugués, Ayumu Ken Kikkawa, and Pablo Robles), Journal of International Economics, 2025, Volume 155, 104085 . [Online Appendix] [VoxDev Coverage]
''(Trade) War and Peace: How to Impose International Trade Sanctions'' (with Gustavo de Souza, Naiyuan Hu, and Haishi Li), Journal of Monetary Economics, 2024, Volume 146, 103572. [VoxEU Coverage]
''Regulatory Protection and the Role of International Cooperation'', International Economic Review, 2024, 65: 817-850. [Online Appendix]
"Mandarins Make Markets: Leadership Rotation and Inter-Provincial Trade in China" (with Junyan Jiang), Journal of Development Economics, 2020, Volume 147, 102524.
"Sustainable Cooperation in International Trade: A Quantitative Analysis", Journal of International Economics, 2020, Volume 123, 103305.
"Aggregate consumption and debt accumulation: an empirical examination of US household behavior'' (with Yun K. Kim, and Mark Setterfield), Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2015, 39(1), 93-112.
"A theory of aggregate consumption'' (with Yun K. Kim, and Mark Setterfield), European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: Intervention, 2014, Edward Elgar, vol. 11(1), pages 31-49.