Research

Working Papers

1. Geospatial Inequality in the Green Transition: Pollution Redistribution from Electric Vehicles, with Zheng Xiao and Wendong Zhang (2/26) 

SSRN Working Paper  (Under Review)

2. Cool Cash: European Heat Waves and China’s Air-Conditioner Exports, with Tieyue (Terry) Zhang and Wendong Zhang  (9/26)

3. Not All Provinces Pour the Same: Import Responses to Canada's Ban on the U.S. Wines, with Zihan Chen, Bradley Rickard, and Wendong Zhang

Best Paper Award, the 8th Wine & Hospitality Workshop, Alliance on Research of Wine & Hospitality   (9/26)

4. Environmental Regulation, Market Power in Input Markets, and the Labor Share (12/25) 

SSRN Working Paper   (Under Review)

5. Ports, Trade Costs, and Food Imports, with Fei Nie, Tao Xiong, and Wendong Zhang (2/26)   (Under Review)

6. Spatial Competition and Strategic Entry in China's Agricultural Markets (New Draft Coming Soon) 

7. Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Product Quality: Evidence from Food Recalls in China, with Fei Nie, Lei Li, Tao Xiong, and Wendong Zhang (7/26)    (Under Review, Selected for presentation at the JEBO Beyond Automation: GenAI and Economics Conference)

8. Market Competition as Climate Adaptation in Agriculture, with Puyu Zhang (2/26) 

9. Employment Effects of Environmental Regulations: Evidence from the Clean Water Act, with Xibo Wan, Anton Yang, and Wendong Zhang

Publication

1. A Geospatial Approach to Measuring Economic Activity (with Costas Arkolakis and Anton Yang), accepted Nature Communications

Latest Version | NBER WP | Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers   

Work in Progress

1. Risky Global Agricultural Supply Chains: Evidence from Firm-to-Firm Trade, with Bernhard Dalheimer and Wendong Zhang

2. Measuring Livestock Activity from Space: Satellite Methane as an Agricultural Statistic, with Qinan Lu and Wendong Zhang

Selected for presentation at the Economic Measurement in the Agricultural Sector, Fall 2026, NBER