Publications:

Social Media and Collective Action in China 

(with David Strömberg and Yanhui Wu),  Econometrica ,Vol.92, Issue 6, November 2024: pp1993-2026.

How Did the 2012 Anti-corruption Campaign in China Diminish the Value of Political Connections for Listed Companies? 

 (with Chun-Fang Chiang), Economica , Accepted. 

Media Bias in China 

(with David Strömberg and Yanhui Wu), American Economic Review, September 2018

Why Does China Allow Freer Socail Media? Protests versus Surveillance and Propaganda 

(with David Strömberg and Yanhui Wu), Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2017

Another version of this paper is as CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP11778 

"The Political Economy of Social Media in China" 

 (with David Strömberg and Yanhui Wu),  in Campante, F, R Durante and A Tesei (eds), The Political Economy of Social Media, 2023, CEPR Press, Paris & London.

Wealth, Education, and Demand for Medical Care: Evidence from Rural China 

(with Jin Feng and Yangyang Yu), in Gordon Liu, Shufang Zhang and Zongyi Zhang(eds), Investing in Human Capital for Economic Development in China, 2010, Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. 

Selected Working Papers:

"Corruption and Asymmetric Sanctions: Theory and Evidence from China"  (with Maria Perrotta Berlin, Martin Dufwenberg and Giancarlo Spagnolo), Submitted.

An earlier version of the paper is Leniency, Asymmetric Punishment and Corruption: Evidence from China , CEIS Working paper No. 431, May 7, 2018

"Financial Attention and the Disposition Effect: An Analysis of Attention-grabbing Stocks in the Chinese Stock Market"  (with Deng Pan and Donghui Shi), Preparing for Submission.

“Improvement Mechanisms” (with Deng Pan), Preparing for Submission.

Chinese Microblogs and Drug Quality 

Political Connection, Government Patronage and Firm Performance: Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Firms 

Selected Work in Progress:

“Picking the 'Right' Drama” (with Steven Pai Xu)

“Inescapable Impact of Carbon Monoxide on Individual Investors” (with Deng Pan and Donghui Shi)

“Adjudications under Social Pressure” (with Chun-Fang Chiang)

“Stock Market, Wealth, and Retirement Decision” (With Deng Pan and Xiaohan Zhang)

“How to Make the Incentive Right: Evidence from Chinese Hospital Reforms” (with Dan Jia and Steven Pai Xu)

“How is Chinese Media used by Politicians to Promote the Career Path of Their Cliques and Themselves” (with David Strömberg and Yanhui Wu)

“The Effect of Chinese Microblogs on Drug Quality – the central or local Government Matters ?” (with Tomas Larsson and David Strömberg)

Media Coverage:

No Prosperity without Freedom - Can China's Media Thrive while being a Propaganda Arm for the Government?  

By Chris Fleisher, Highlighting our AER paper

E-autocracy: Surveillance and Propaganda in Chinese Social Media 

(with David Strömberg and Yanhui Wu), VoxEU, May 8, 2018

Prosperity without Freedom? Media Bias in China 

(with David Strömberg and Yanhui Wu), VoxDev, April 11, 2018,

Chinese Crackdown on controversial social media posts less strict than many believe 

AEA IN THE NEWS highlights our JEP paper

Chinese Censors' Looser Social Media Grip 'may help flag threats' 

by Violet Law, SCMP, Feb. 2017, featured and summarized our JEP paper