Working Papers
"Connectivity and Selective Rural Migration for Agricultural Productivity Gains" (with Lin Ma, Qunfeng Wu, and Jimmy Xu), 2025. [SSRN]
"Tariffs as Bargaining Chips: A Quantitative Analysis of US-China Trade War" (with Naiyuan Hu and Tong Ni), 2025.
''Horizontal Regulatory Barriers in International Trade: Evidence from Electric Plugs'' (with Jimmy Xu), 2024. Revisions requested, Journal of International Economics. [SSRN]
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.