Research

Publications:

• Tax Revenues in Low-income Countries, 2023. (Economic Journal, 113(653), 2001-2024; with Adrian Peralta-Alva, Xuan S. Tam, and Marina M. Tavares) (Updated: 10/04/2022, previously titled The Welfare Implications of Revenue Mobilization in Low-income Countries) 

  • Online appendix providing additional materials pertaining to the paper. 

  • Publisher's version.

• The Size Distribution of Firms and Industrial Water Pollution: A Quantitative Analysis of China, 2021 (with Ji Qi and Xican Xi; American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 13(1), 151-183) 

  • Online appendix providing additional materials pertaining to the paper. 

  • Publisher's version.

• Policy Distortions, Farm Size, and the Overuse of Agricultural Chemicals in China, 2018. (with Yiyun Wu, Xican Xi, Deming Luo, Baojing Gu, Shu Kee Lam, Peter Vitousek, and Deli Chen; PNAS, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, 115(27), 7010-7015) 

  • Media Coverage: Reference News (in Chinese，《参考消息》), Caixin (in English, 《财新网》)

  • Also featured in Frontiers 2018/19: Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern published by the United Nations Environment Programme.

• Evaluating Linear Approximations in a Two-country Model with Occasionally Binding Borrowing Constraints, 2015 (with Alexis Anagnostopoulos; The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, 15(1), 43-91)

  • Online appendix providing first and second order perturbation solutions to the model and proving the results in the paper.

  • Publisher's version.

Book Chapter:

• Inclusiveness, Growth and Stability, 2022, In Promoting Inclusive Growth in the Middle East and North Africa: Challenges and Opportunities in a Post-Pandemic World, Chapter 2, 29-40; with Chiara Maggi.

• China’s Agriculture in the Reform: Achievements and Challenges. In A Great Transformation: The Past, Present and Prospects of China’s Reform, Chapter 1, 1-29; with Xican Xi and Haolong Xu. (In Chinese, 中文发表，改革开放中的中国农业：成就与挑战，收录于张军、王永钦编《大转型：中国经济改革的过去、现在与为来》，第一章，与奚锡灿，徐灏龙合作)